The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-23
TIE COMING DELUGE
The Water Will Be 100 Feet
Deep On Main Street.
NAVIGATION 70 DEEp CREEK
This Waves Of the Great sals Lake vii
Wash the Feet OF the Statue OF
the Angel Moroni.

Colonel Fred Trimmer, member Of the
Royal Geographical society OF Great
Britain, and one OF the foremost scientific
men in the west, after q careful investiga-
tion or the effects which the irrigation Of
Snake River valley will have on the Great
Salt Lake, is able to demonstrate to GER
tainty that the Great Salt Lake, which has
been receding for years, will again spread
over the entire valley and inunuate II with
water
MIR. Trimmer's calculations have been
made with great care and the accuracy OF
his reasoning wiz command the res pect Of
ali scientific minds.
There may, however. be few very shall
low minded men who are unfamiliar with the
cosmoplastic nature of the earths crust and
are inclined to 20 about with bRndRges on
their eyes prefering 70 fall over a precipice
blindfoldeo than to avoid it with their eyes
open.
These credulous people viii not see what
is perfectly clear 20 scientific minds until
the water begins to rise on Main street TO
the second story, and the Deep Greek rail-
ways are submerged and boats Will ply
from Ensign Peak 10 the Dugway noun
tains.
A man with half an eye can see what is
10 happen by consulting any map.
1.-THE Snake rivern said Mr.. Trimmer.
is the largest river in the arid regions,
and vast irrigation enterprises will shortly
divert this water to irrigate the Snake
River valley. There are four million acres
OF land there subject to irrigation. The
divide between the Snake and the Great
Salt Lake basin is but 4, 200 feet high,
and the water evaporated in the
Snake valley VIII form into clouds
aud will not be precipitased
until they arc driven against the Wasatch
mountains by the prevailing winds. This
rainfall win all be drained into the Great
Salt lake. which has q surface aree Of but
]. 20U.O0O acres as against ZOO, 900 acres in
tho Snake valley. 1t can be readily seen
that the effect will be the same as If an
ocean was being drained into a lake.
at any man win look sufficiently for
ward to the time when that 4, 600. 900 acres
Is well under water, or even half OF il, 1t is
reasonable to assume that the moisture
evap0rating from such q large area will be
driven by the northwest winds ageinst the
mountain system. the Wasatch, whose
rivera eli discharge into the Great Salt
Lake.
at is possible to conceive an upsetting of
the balance now existing in the supply Of
water now contributed TO the Great Salt
Lake. Should these speculations ever be
realized, and they are entirely in
agreement with existing proven facts
on the subject of cultivation
increasing rainfall, tbs time win be reached
when the summer season in Salt Lake Will
have less brilliant sunshine than ct pres
ent The water turned by the farmer with
his hoe out of the great Snake river onto
his corn fields will be drawn up by the
burning rays Of the sun and waited into
our vioiniage. there 10 be precipitated in
grateful summer showers. These add
tional waters being borne down the streams
into the Great Salt Lake, win cause q
gradual rise.
'You can look forward to the time when
you viii be forced to flee to the summit Of
the temple. or the mountains, TO escape the
rise OF the gradually increasing waters.
When that time comes there will be no
longer any talk Of the Deep Creek road, as
q thirty-foot rise il the lake would connect
the city OF Salt Lake and the Deep Creek
camps by steamer. il is not anticipated
that these conditions will be realized i'm
medistely. and not desiring TO give unneces-
sary alarm, it may be said that the prudent
investor ia real estate viii stlll have long
time to make many fortunes.
"The time estimated that will intervene
before the contamination Of these condi-
lions 10 $50 years, two months and three
days from the Feast of the ClamB.H