The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
One of the Finest Bathing Resorts
ID the Country.
VISITED BY THOUSANDS.
Something About the Waters of Amer
ica's Wonderful Dead Sea.
There Is No Bathing in the World to
Compare Ewith a Dip i'll the Great
Salt neutrality-suspicious. of
some Noted Writers.

''The first mention OF Great Salt Lake
was by Baron La Hontou, in 1869, who
gathered from the western Indians some
vague notions about its existence" says
q well-known writer. ''But until
1919, when Colonel Fremont visited
it on his way to Oregon, it is
probable that its dead waters had never
been invaded, or the solemn stiffness of
its inland islands broken. In the early
spring OF 1850 Captain Stansbury spent
three months in making a detached sur
vey of the shores of the lake and its
islands. in all probability the whole area
between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch
was once lake. in which the mountains
rose as islands. -
''The shores of the lake, 5" says another
writer, care the scene of a growing salt
making industry by solar evaporation.
Besides crude common salt, the brine of
the lake contains a variety of sulphates,
borates and bromides, from which salt
cake may be made, epson and glauber
salts, soda-ash, bicarbonate of soda,
caustic-soda, and sal-soda.''
9sGreat Salt Lake is one vast laboratory
where nature necessarily produces the
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necessary to the sciences and arts. Coal
and iron, the twin essentials for manu-
features, lie in prodigious deposits side
by side, and no circumstance is wanting
TO make Salt Lake city great manufac-
turing centre
But it is as a health and pleasure resort
that the lake is most famous, and one en-
thusiastic bather left his opinion OF the
water inscribed on the walls of one of the
bath houses at Garfield Beach in the fol-
lowing terms: ''Took seventy-five baths;
gained twenty-eight pounds; am a new
man.
Garfield Beach is nearly twenty miles
from the city, and is reached by the I'm
ion Pacific railway. Here the shore is
ing place, and the other appointments are
all that could be desired.
The water IS so dense that a person is
sustained on its surface indefinitely with
out effort. Experience has proven its great
hygienic effects. Z he baths are extremely
invigorating. Ii there is any abrasion
upon the skin it viii smart for an instant
bath the snarUing is gone, never to re-
turn, and after rinsing off in the fresh
water provided in every bath room, there
is a sense of cleanliness more perfect than
any other bath can produce.
1t was once popularity supposed that the
laES communicated NttAl bHe CCeaH Dy 4
subterrauean river, which made a terri
bic whirlpool somewhere on its surface.
Needless to say, neither has been found.
Receiving SO many streams and having
no outlet, it has became very saline from
concentration and the inflow of salt
springs. The saline or solid matter held
in solution by the water varies as the lake
rises or subsidies. In 1872 Fremont OBJ
tanned fourteen pints of very white salt"
from five gallons Of the water evaporated
over camp fire. The salt was also very
pure, assaying 81. so fine. In 1880 DR.. L. D.
Gale analysed a sample OF it which
yielded full 20 per cent of pure common
salt, and about per cent of foreign salts,
cklorides of lime and magnesia. Ser
geant Smart, Z. S. A., analyzed a sample
in 1877, and found an imperial gallon to
contain nearly twenty-four and half
ounces of saline matter, amounting TO Il
per cent, as follows:
Common salt OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES II. 735
Lime carbonate -.-..-.... .Ol6
Lime Sulphdtt------- Observation-Disclosures -Of3
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