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Show Salt Lake and Flats Lure Tourists, Industries, Racers There is no need to sink a shaft to find salt in Utah. It is mined on top of the ground where it lies many feet deep on the shores of Great Salt lake and in famous Bonneville salt flats. Naturally the state is a large producer of both common salt and ' sodium products. I People who go to the beaches of 1 Great Salt Lake find that they float I like a cork in the water because of j Us saline content, which ranges from 22 to 27 per cent. The lake is 4,200 feet above sea level and has no known outlet, except evaporation. It is 80 miles long and from 20 to 32 miles wide. Great Salt Lake has several fine beaches. Because of its salinity no fish live in the lake, but a small brine-shrimp, brine-shrimp, no larger than a man's fingernail, fin-gernail, exists in great numbers in it. Wert of the lake are the Bonneville Bonne-ville salt flats where thousands of acres of white salt stretch on either side of the paved highway which crosses the area. The flats are so level that many automobile speed records have been made on them. Ab Jenkins, former mayor of Salt Lake City and famed race driver, prefers the flats to all other courses, claiming claim-ing the salt keeps rubber tires cooler cool-er than a dirt or board track. The flats also are notable for their mirages. |