The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-22

The largest spring IN the world is III
the Ozark region of southwest Missouri,
on the line between Laclcdc and Dallas
counties. II flows many millions OF gal
Ions Of pure cold water daily, and II 1T
we're more advantageousIy situated
would supply cities like st. Louis ana
chicago with water which would never
need filter. The spring wells up out
of the ground about a hundred yards
from protecting clld. III is ABOUT
eipbtv.fye feet in diameter and has
becu sounded TO the depth Of 400 feet
without finding bottom. Ihe' water
comes up so swiftly that IL is lmpos-
sible for a man S body 10 sink IN the
.prine. The water level maintains ISseu
with exactness In all kinds OF weather,
rain or drouth never making any
change. It's only variation is sort OF
tidal movement which raises and low
ers the level about four inches from
morning to evening
The water flows from this spring
through n branch mile long 10 the
Niagara river The branch is loo feet
vide and in many places thirty to forty
fec, deep. The water is so clenr that
the smallest objects may nc seen
through forty feet of ii. In some
places the branch is choked with pecu-
liar water weed which is not 10 be
found anywhere else in the United
States. Columbia river salmon, placed
there by the government, thrive IN the
cold waters of this remarkable stream
The spring is known as Bennett
spring Ii is twelve miles from Leb-
anon, the nearest railroad station On
account of its remote location, few tour
lists have seen il, and very few people
know of its existence.
81. John river, New B1lnswlck, on
lows the rare distinction OF having inc
only reversible waterfall IN the world.
In the morning there is n fall of fifteen
feet in the river al the harbor OF ST.
John, but in the afternoon, watchers
On the suspension bridge over the gorge
soc tho river perform the unnsnal feat
If turning backward TO how toward ITS
source with fall of water three feet
The other way This is caused by the
nieh tides i'm the Bay of Fundy. which
arc the greatest known anywhere, IheN
rush up the river through the gorge
with force sufficient 10 overcome the
waters of river 45O miles long. sweep
over obstructions, and when at their
height accomplish this phenomenon OF
making the falls flow backward
Expert statisticians in the employ OF
he government have recently estab-
iished the exact center of the popula-
ion of the United States Including
he insular possessions and Alaska. and
sakinp into consideration the rotund-
ttv of the earth. the center IS 600 miles
in the interior of the earth directly
lnder the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
This is beneath the point where the
.hirtv.sixth parallel and eighty-seventh
meridian iutersect. Leaving ont the
ineular possessions and Alaska. the cen
.er OF population Is SIN miles southeast
of Columbus, in Bartholomew county,
Indiana, The exact geographical center,
exclusive of Alaska, is said To be Cora
.ovnship. Smith county, Kansas. In
,ludlng Alaska, the center of area Is at
Slave Butte. South Dakota, twenty-five
miles east of the boundary between Da-
tota. Wyoming and Montana.
Statistics in regard to the size of the
United States Invariably have the
clause Including Alaska, or with
The exception of Alaska. untll cur
iositv makes us wonder what difference
Alaska would really mako on" way OF
another. This famous territory is larg
II tndH hhoSt P''PiS i"i" nv ~ 80,
2 coast line greater than the combined
lengths Of the Atlantic and Pacific sea
boards of the United States. The Gov
ernor in his Office at Sitka is tarthel
from the western limits of his terri
tory than he is from Eastport, Maine
Alaska has an area of 100000 square
miles. an cxpanse of land greater thar
all that part Of the United States tina
lies east of the Mississippi and nortl
Of the Carolinas. it is twice as larg
as what was once known as the Oregon
country. A tract now embracing Oregon
Washington. Idaho. and parts of Mon
.ana and Wyoming. The little land o
Attuis il so far west that 1t is cast.
When Washington. d. G.. WAS vii