The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-27

n lake from $500 to 5000 square miles In
area. wing 1000 mile Inland. at an altitude
of i2bO feet above the sea level. whose Wa
ters are six times as salt as those OIL 'ne
ocean: and, while it has no outlet iou'
large rivers. pouring their ceaseiess i'oIus
OF fresh water into it without raising Us
mysterious surface a traction OIL au in'i'
or ever diminishing. so lar as cnenii."1
ANALYSTS can determine. its indescrioaolss
sadness. Where does all the water go
Where does all the salt that no streams
,an ,rsshen come from Where are tho
vast saline magazines from whlch IL uIa" .
it's everlasting supplies? one may s.""
upon it's shores and ASK a thousah" SUN
questions, but no answer comes iron, i's
mysterious depths. in when hoth'hs NV"
bu, death and silence. ,,.,,
under the leadership Of brigham YOUNG
started from Nauvoo, Ill. on 'helr -oo' ,
mile pilgrimage through the trackiess VII
derness of the American West, they pro-
claimed themselves the modern israoi III
search of the promised land III was
strange fate. or destiny. or providence.
that led them to a region so similar 10
the Land of Promise" of Israel OF on:
Th,re the lake Of Gennesarct or sea OF
Golilca. was fresh water and full oil fisn'
The Jordan river flowed out OF 1t ana emp,
tied into the Dead Sea, which is so .salt anu
acrid that no living thing is found al hS
waters Here. Provo or titan iake Is iresh
and sweat. and it's lmpid waters swarm
with speckled trout and other fish as sa-
worry as any that strained the nets of Peter.
lanes and John out of 1t flows ne
Mormon river Jordan, and, after rambling
for forty or fifty miles through orchards
and meadows, grain fields ana gardens,
pours its silyery tide into Great sat lake,
the saltiest body of water on the globe,
I..u., .AttfN NJ M
~ per cent. In the Holy Land the Jordan
flows from north to south, while the Utah
Jordan flows from south TO north. Mount
Nebo stood like n giant sentinel overlook
ing the ancient land flowing with milk
and honey" and here Mount Nebo, lifting
It's crown OF eternal snow l2,Oo0 feet heaV-
onward, stands guard forever over fairer
Canaan thaT Moses viewed ou' never en-
tered.
Salt lake was once as large as Lake
Huron. and was over "A thousand feet deep
Its former benches and the marks OF its
olden wave plashings are as plain upon
the mountain benches as though traced hut
yesterday. 1t Is now about a hundred
miles long. with an average width OF from
| twenty five to thirty miles. II is from NIFTY
| TO sixty miles wide In some places and its
greatest depth is about sixty feet. Its
waters contain is per cent OF solid matter.
mostly salt and soda, with small proper
| tions OF sulphur magnesia. calcium. chic
| rine bromine. potassium, lithia and bo-
racic acid. The Asiatic Dead Sea water
contains % per cent OF solids. including
| less salt and soda and much more mag
nesia calcium and potassium than Salt
Lake. Atlantic Ocean water holds but So
FER cent of solid material. OF which salt
| constitutes 20 per cent, Hundreds OF
| thousands OF tons Of salt are made by nat
uIal evaporation along the shores OF the
lake. and at one place near Salt Lake City
| a windy night never fails TO pile many tons
OF soda, eliminated by the movement of
| the waves.
| Compared with this vast liquid treasure
house OF riches, the greatest bonanza
mines OF Utah or Of the United States
dwindle to blind beggars' penny boxes
Take out your pencil and do little figuring
Figures. it is said. will not lie. and you
will soon find yourself standing dumb
founded before your own mathematical
truths.
Say Salt Lake is hundred miles long,
and has an average width OF % miles
that gives an area OF 2700 square miles.
There are 27.S7s,lo0 square feet In mile;