The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-09-26

mine each worth $500.
From there we were pnosed to-
Columbia Gardens lark four
miles from the city in a canyon filed
with trees, water. winding walks, elk,
bear, wolves. eagles, foxes. badgers.
and mountain lion-all in cages. It
was pretty surprise, the cool shady
walks and deep green verdure after
so much dust and barrenness ofveg-
citation, but greater surprise await
ed US. On approaching handsome
pavilion. A long table stood laden
with all the good things of life.
There was another feast that Lu-
cullus might have coveted. compli-
mentary on the part of Major Wool
son, manager of the Alice mine.
He is also manager Of the water
works and the street car traffic, but
be certainly never managed anything
more successfully than he did that
banquet.
1t was train time when we return
ed at 4 P. NJ, and as we all filed out
of the hotel an enterprising photog
rapher took snap shot at US. Two
elegant palace cars were awaiting us
at the depot in which we travelled
with great comfort, reaching Ogden
at s A. NJ. the following day where we
breakfasted and were met by the
Salt Lake City committee appointed
to take US in tow by the Press and
Cham Der of Commerce of that city.
They had everything reduced to a
perfect system, each guest was hand
ed card with their name, the name
of their hotel and the number Of
the room to which they had been as
signed; accompanying this was a
beautifully illuminated programme
containing the order of entertain
ment for the two days of our stay.
The first thing on the programme
showed delicate appreciation of the
situation on the part of the commit
tee. Our ride from Butte to Sal,
Lake City had been very hot and ex
tremely dusty and as soon as dinner
was had at our hotels we found o
specia. train awaiting to convey
the entire Press Gang to Garfield
Beach, Is miles away on the shores
of the Great Salt sea where all were
turned loose for lave in the lake
There are handsome pavillions and
promenades and tasteful bath houses
and cafes and with the long stretch
of pale Nile green water, the music
and the myriads of bathers one could
easily imagine themselves at some
popular resort on the Jersey coast
The water is almost saturated so
luton" containing as it does 20 pei
cent. of salt. Its specific gravity il
so great that it is difficult of dis
placement and sends the limbs Of
people who have MISUNDERSTANDING
flying to the surface
The President was an immensely
fat man, and he foated round like ar
inflated frog. If any one ships a
wave it is terrible. They are blind,
ed, strangled and choked with the
acrid pungent water which contains
s per cent Of Epson salts and 6 per
cent. of bitter chloride of magnesia
After the traces of travel were wash
ed away and fresh toilets made, all
were summoned to bountiful cola
tion laid in an upper pavilion. Mr..
B. K. Block was the host of the oc-
casion and welcomed the guests in a
few cordial words.
The ride home along side the lake
shore and through the salt plain was
interesting. There were salt caves
and salt mines and marshes, and ter
races, one below the other, left BY the
lake as it has receded in the ages
that are past.
1t was formerly 345 miles long and
1876 broad, now it is not much more
than 100 long and 40 broad.
In 1876 Prof. G. X. Gilbert discov-
cred the point of drainage which is at
Red Rock Pass, Idaho. The outflow.
ing stream crossed the unconsclida
ted gravel that overlap the limestone
there, at the divide, and cut it away
rapidly; this has caused the numer-
GUS series of wave wrought terraces
visible all along the margins of the
Salt Lake plain. The lake surface
was lowered rapidly. comparatively
speaking until it reached the lime
stone formation, then from that on
progress was exceedingly slow.
Hence come the hills or large round
ed terraces worn by the slow action
of the water and now forming the
ancient beach or water line. AT
present there is no known outlet.
Several considerable streams flow
into the lake, among them the river
Jordon, but as none flow out, there is
no way to account for their absorp-
ton and the uniform level Of the
lake except on the theory of rapid
evaporation. Some think there is a
subterranean outlet. | was told that
articles thrown into the lake were
always drawn in certain direction,
away from the land and never seen
again; and that people who had al
lowed themselves to drift for time
found they were drawn into a cur
rent setting them in the same di-
rection. There are plenty of places
where a subterranean outlet might be
might be located beneath one
of the numerous mighty mountains
that lift their grim and hoary heads
from the bosom Of the lake and stand
towering in awful majesty in its
midst as though brooding over the
mighty secrets they contain. The
lake islands are all high mountains.
Prof. Muir has finely said of them:
Here the northern peaks of the
Oquirrh range plant their feet in the
clear blue brine, with fine curving
insteps leaving no space for muddy
levels" The largest-the Antelope
lis 16 miles long. One of those
islands shows water mark
800 feet above the present lake level.
On one island there is cliff of
alum shale mile in length traversed
by dykes of trap, the shale contain
ing veins of pure fibrous alum.
Some of the islands are crowned
with lofty lodges of black and cream
colored marble. The mean average
depth of the lake is only 20 feet.
Extending into the mountain side
at Garfield Beach for several hun
bred feet is the Giants Cave with
ceiling ranging in height from 10 to
rs feet. Remains of ancient people
were quite recently found here. The