Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-03-24
SALT LAKE.

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Salt Sea.
| Bird Island is the name given to q great
I rock out in the Great Salt Lake, forty
miles northwest OF Saltair, having sur
face area OF five acres. 1t is entirely desti-
tute Of vegetation, and although thus bar
rem and seemingly uninviting, it is never
theless the nesting place Of hundreds Of
thousands Of water fowl which daily carry
to the place tons Of fish caught by them in
the Bear and Weber rivers and other
streams which pour their waters into the
great inland salt sea.
On the west side of Antelope island,
perhaps thirty miles northwest OF Saltair,
| is the famous White Rock bay, its name
being derived from a great white rock
which rears itself up several hundred feet
from the beach. Further to the north are
the mouths of the Weber and the Bear.
| And then across the north end of the
| lake is the wonderful piece OF railroad
engineering, the Great Salt Lake cutoff,
! originally twenty-three miles of trestle
work, but which has since been reduced
| by ILLS to twelve miles OF trestle, built on
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necessitsted the cutting down Of 3s,256
trees, or forest two square miles in area,
which il placed end to end would extend
a distance Of $40 miles, the construction
OF which required the services Of an army
OF 5000 men working twenty four hours a
day for one year and four months, and
which cost millions OF dollars.
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voyage made on the great salt sea ON the
twin propeller Irene, owned by the Great
Salt Lake navigation company. The Irene
is sixty-foot boat, is equipped with two
twenty-five horsepower gasolene engines,
carries dynamo which furnishes light
| for the boat and for the electric search
light, has accommodations for fifty per-
sons during the day, and when the cabins
are completed can care for thirty people
at night. 1t is the first one of several
boats OF like build which it is proposed to
put in service on the lake should this one
prove what its builders and owners believe.
Supplies sufficient for a weeks voyage
can be carried, and the company is OF the
opinion that it can build up ouch bust
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people will charter the boats for cruise
around the lake, stopping at the several
islands as suits their convenience and an
choring at night in some one of the nu-
merous little bays that indent the islands,
as also the mainland.
And of this great salt sea? The average
Salt Laker knows but little about it. The
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scientists declare, and they know, this
Dead Sea of America was 346 miles long,
! las miles wide, $3.50 miles around, and in
proof of this you are shown the water
marks on the range. At that time the
present site of Salt Lake was 900 feet
under water.
A great river at that time had its origin
were carried up north through what is
now the Bear river valley, where its
waters cut through the mountains what is
now Bear river canyon, thence north
through Red Rock Pass into what is now
the Pontneuf river, and then down to near
American Falls, where it emptied into the
Snake river, then down that river to that
majestic waterway, the Columbia, and its
waters poured into the Pacific ocean. But
this is history. What OF the present?
Ask q Salt Laker. Ask q Utah man
about the great dead sea as to its dimen-
sions. He cannot tell you although he
might tell you about the Dead Sea in the
Holy Land. Yet this dead sea in Utah,
this great salt sea, covers an area larger
than the::state Of Rhode Island. It covers
1000 square miles, is eighty-one miles long
and fifty-one miles wide and thirty feet
deep in the deepest place; that it contains
400, 00O, 900 tons of salt, thirteen ounces of
common salt in every five pounds of water,
and every three years the entire body OF
water is drawn from the lake by the sun.
How can any person risk taking some I'M
known cough remedy when Foley's Honey and