Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-20
LAKE BONNEVILLE.
PREDECESSOR orrnEsnALlLiEE,
order of the Great Lakes Nuir0grts.
siOu 10 thc Present Con.
dillon.

"NlN iNNA1 a lAANAlN NA' "'''NNIN" -
Dr. j. D.. Ta'm1gG PRESIDENT Of tue
Uaivcsa.ty, On LuEr Bonneville, o.
ul iect particularly uilg loo thia
region. Tho meeting was iuId iu t4u
lecture room Of the laboratory auI
museum building, and after uu iatf.'
4uc.5u Of the subject tNo room was
dsgEoucI anu the p0iDs .. tao lecture
were demo. tttated by mg.ug ufusv.
Oi lem EuIu slides mgdu gItgiAUy tsr The
occasion. Tho lecture saa il.uatmtIi
Nr HUMOROUS marH, uIuWinHH nui
photographs; ns uIgu hy mgI.H.I ll
Yr..us tuOwiug thr Ir"yst live
Uus luuuu#a.t. of uto sat i1.y, ami
uy 600 ,Euslieg, agtiJs 90 t.pf..I iiyJu
Views.
Dbl. lalmoro began y auumuplu.
.'" lahore u. ihD ltiur'iHl NH'E.fH aNl
Iuvo-iHU.oiH iH tho l.iJ. boo WHuu be-
gave iuI rrH.lt Tor tnrtH.. ,gI.I.
g. m rF ts..u .u muufluUHI H 8Hufg
U.D. With. Bir TO- SIM ., Hayden,
Bradley, King and u.UUs, uNs ul-
uvl.uuy GIg.TL LHfD Hnr.vyiI.r,uu
HaN, E thB uumu glv.u 90 a large
% OF wsttr, which uuyu
N.rI ,hr eastern Gy.rUHiuu n. fNu
GfgH Basin; the western part of this
WHHd F.ul region uuirs u,cul'yi b" "a
fula'ls. sud Bh.l.YwCr 'hIH.u ..Il $50
gA,onsi71 b3iyt known na Lake
LH4u.l.u. Tao Crest BnFIu, t.y
I.rs g UnFgI 5nina.H Hrea li .H0
N.Th AguTlgHu continent VaT 90
named b FsUmI ut. .HH T."I1u ow'
...u ono western UaIt U Utah, ull
. 90 D ID H.N
Z from tHr Nas8tch range, ans lIr high
| plateau; nugs extends into southern
Idaho, cUCl0.ps Almgsl ,ne WUu.l 10
NuyHIH auu the eastern portion Ui
/ California, ne well ag southeastern
Oregon, sguihUasturn ldauI uuI south.
/ eastern Wyoming.
Contrary 90 thn HCCmiug.y simplest
/ su cotton OF tho uump The Great
! hs.Iu B. not q tiuriu depression, bui
/ gIu,ls.a large number uf individual
] drainage hAHiuI -nui ztrulau HrTlrH o.
! Guys, arpITlluJ by hi.iH and MHuuil. %
! ilviJus. There are probably 40 'tW.r
! hfu one hundred small IabuB now hoo
! the . Hiu. a s.udyiIi tue drainage Pre-
CHta BIOL srUs4-nrv 90 tue ITulf Uf i.s
tz .s.grrr ss % unit tue approximate
area 0i the Esaiu D. 100000 fVuHTc
| mile, tho rpg on iH ut Ufysrut
chBf1Ct9rfIiggiiy arlu; but 90 history
FcytoH many climatic changes aH.
disturbance on which luJUpd the story
OF iB 'akrF mDsllr Irnuuus. Lakr
FBnuneviI,g Do an mierus.ln aud luz
HtTuUtiye instance OF uy.g0uU CUuui.
lions; a. NO spuuk hguWiivcly Of
buried p0WuuIi Hs fossil city, sD We
may call Bonneville q lsul laRr. 10
wss led mostly by streams from Wl.
satgh aud ululah SHOWS; auI o.. tho
time u &c. greatest extent presented a
north nul south length Of 800 miIgs,
with width east AMI west OF $50
mile. twas probably nearly equal o.
LaEu Huron BOO area about 1851
square miles, O' tuls inland sea the
present Salt L4au is the largest rom.
uaut; white Uau and SEWER lgHgs,
also remains of Bonneville, were 81.
ono time hug large bays W gul's Of the
mniuluoly.
Tho psag's 70 tEo exi.,oacu OF Lake
Bonneville ar. Old luIl nnu psI1 H 90
convince even .Hn mJs. careless .I.
HuEyuf; o., Uiy IIuu Wuy UH traced
along lIa rm NJ tho yallOys once
flllgu b. ..8 water; ana Those sn1ruI
sTc rich o. uUu.u mutsE,HEt wave
sculpture, iu ClilI nuu tuTfuCts, anu
0
that lived uga,a.U u, auriacu or that
gOaAud upon lis beach. The shore
: line, popularity called tho high water
m1rE, % C1u.pigu0uB ON The foot hills
%. the WasatCh aud tho OquiFFh RANG.
ts lu our Immediate vicinity; f0
p plainly rsvcai,a, indeed, between Sgll
Lake Clty uuI tho towns 10 the north
as 90 suggest no srtilCiHlly prepared
road bel. but ,uiH HhOTu limo is not
siuEle 0CCuIr. u., indeed there nrt
several wei, urNuai shores, mark
10y their u.ii.fn.l attitudes HugCr.6iyt
q | levels Of Che ancient lake. The rising
j | aud falling n. the water took place y
! rouutfsnt DUl pflCr'but; hU y
% wafer gradually and continually
changing llH level W rise or fall would
have hut li,tle opportunity 10 carve OF
| otherwise urIHcl ia chores 90 Huy
, | definite heights thu several lake ter
races therefore mark the levels Hl
which the water fingered Tor Ions
! periods. OF tuusd shores the highuHI
b ami most conspicuous has been uumuI
distiuCtivriy INp Bonneville shore
, lint; it about 1000 feet above The
present level of tue salt Lake surface,
Jour bundled feet lower, or 90 @
s height ui Elk hundred feel above ,ht
present Lake level ~ another shore
called from the wonderfully disUnU
delta formation near Provo CITY, "a,
Provo shUiu line, Between these are
Y several less distinct lines. Midway
between the Provo shore lins aud thu
present lake Lowell, or Vt height %
about three hundred feet above IA,
10 latter, "a vol dutDci Rud suulplurri
turTucu h. seen U1 Stansbury leland
this nus uuun called the StnsDury
shore line. AZ 10 the chronological
order u the principal shores, tho Sol
lowing sequence may be- pruyot!
intermediate shore Lines; q, tho BDlnu
/ VILE; @, lAo Provo,
The principal tivisions Of the Of,
lake suggested by puuiusulaa nuI
4 archipelago which partly separated it
= waters werrs !. The main body, GOV
i euug the area ui Inc present Lake, "a
ID well as the region 90 tno wet, extend
r Ing therefore over tho whole Uf tni
, Great Salt l4ubt desert 10 the tu5tuTi
, | loot %. the q chute uUuntaiun iu Ne
s vada. %. The Utah bay, which com
uuuicalud with tJo main bOIl
o through a very narrow strait mgIhe
1 by the Point Of Tue MouutRil an.
q the travauo hills between sal
p Lake aud Utah counties. Q. The Sevlp
uay, covering The prefcut SEWER desert
, a1d marked ia lis lowest part by lh