Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-09

long had there been no rivers 10 drain
ltr flow into the ocean. The issue BE- ono
which apparently must ever go un-
rrtued.
ESCAPE or TORRENTS.
AZ rough estimate the first deprcs.
fiun lowered the lake upwards ~ 300
isot, assuming that the highest terrace
was the highest lake level letting loose
20 torrent which must have torn lta way
through mountains us if they were
rpcin leaving plains whore lofty peaks
had boon, digrinF into the bowels N the
earth. perhaps qucHching Cor the time
being the subtcrrancln fires which set
u frcc-untll finally u bored IL path to
the Pacific. 1000 miles from the starting
point Of its mad career.
None may guess the Interval between
the first depression and the second
The mountain handwriting tells OF
three separate falls. but gives no limit
Of the time which elapsed before one
followed the other, After tho third
outpouring "a different disturbance must
have raised the boundary walls and
blocked the former outlets. Three gate
ways may have closed az oncc' there 10
no saying that the freed waters fol-
lowed Identical routes 20 the ocean. In
decd. the contrary la more within tho
runEe ~ probability. The volcanic
theory nta nearly every hypothesis
within the present half century
radical change In area and coast line
has been accounted Tor ON the basis
that the Internal disturbances stilt con.
tlnuo. and that part Of the shore D. as
apt 20 sink downward tomorrow ~ Il
was IN the days before humanity had
begun 90 keep It's record.
SALT ENOUGH FOR AGES.
The lake became salt after lts nnai
formed nt this late period q would re-
main salt for ages No deep has become
the SAT- bed Ia the centuries since stag
nation has been the fate OF the waters
above. a Few months ago "a professor
who made "a series uf experiments. In
the interest ~ the salt Industry Of the
lake, announced that n every other
source u salt supply IN the world we're
cut on, the Great Salt Lake would De
able to furnish tho ingredient as long
us the world should endure, In that
statement he made no calculations for
the possibility that the lake itself
should cease to exist but oven IN that
event Il " estimated that solid de-
poHlts on IT, bottom would be- sufficient
20 prevent salt hunger anywhere on the
earth Tor ~ long period nE the mind
can grasp.
From these Illustrations better than
from figures one II able TO gain an APP
nass"d slncr m" iost alstu T mus, oi nv
Tho northern rate nnd yyoiisd in m
then freah water lakn Aitbougb H.
nrsn of that p.tioJ eyjtsr,i,, ,,,,,',,
times exceeded maj ~ ,,,,t.rn ti,,,''', 4,
NAV be Inserted win cer,1i, '',''v ,L. =,
Hear ANA trtnh I,kel bad b,, nv, M, v,"s
bscotrs separate from a.. MI, ''i,'
or were bv that conr,iirion ~ 80,
Thry have renained f-.st b..,,,,s. ~, NJ.
49, -, -ii,t, .,'i "oCuuHe tney
T.9k. From th. S,st M I',' oHl
tejoy Ia mi t65 g..i No., ~ g 1,' l'He
~ onplr1nt ib1i H. i,r,,, o''t ii'.N,. u
f,iian i.gg tb1T ,,,., t,',s,' 10y ms
igst ~ nm. H. '' l. el,'.i.'o sinoo INC
a.. , w ''''' great ou'p'urlhgs OF
PROOF OF RECENT, trArT
en-, RAIN
The proof that 10 has been much low
cred since then is found In the uumrr-
Gus SAT- deposits within ten and twenty
miles of the Shore showing that the gs1
SAT- once lay above the spots