The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-21
MAY COST RAILWAY MILLIONS

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then changes and repairs have
brought the cost of the work up to
about sl4,O000O0 and the stockhold-
crs think it is now time TO abandon
the big trestle
Judge Robert s. Loyett, now the
head of the Hartman lines, is i'll
salt Lake City for the purpose OF
fully investigating the cutoff and
then deciding whether o. not it snail!
he abandoned
When Darius Miller. president OF
the Burlington, was here last SatuF
day he told callers some very inter
ebling things about the Lucin cutoff,
hut according to his viewpoint there
Is no intimation on the part OF the
Union Pacific officials of abandon
ing the project.
Says Cutoff Is To Be Elevated
According to Mr. Miller the Lucin
cutoff Is TO be raised five feet. which,
IL is thought, will bring it above the
crest OF the huge waves which are
rolling over the lake these days and
interfering in such great degree
with the operation of trains.
Mr. Miller also verified the report
that Salt lake is now higher than II
las ever been in modern times, but,
o. course, TO students of The remark.
able past OF this wonderful body oil
water there weie periods in the ages
Of the world when it was much high
er than at present. This is a feature
which only adds TO the mystery OF
the lake But few years back II
was so low that many of the resi-
dents of Salt Lake City thought 1t
was drying up and they feared the
! city was about to lose one of its
chief charms and tourist drawing fea
tires. The bath houses at Saltair
were practically isolated.
Within the last four or five seasons
the lake has been steadily and grad
cally rising, until the fear at present
Is thai II may reach such height as
10 render the cutoff entirely useless
In a few more years.
Much Higher In Past Ages
| The ,iciniy OF the lake shore
shows that in ages gone 1t has been
twice as high as 1t Is today. as there
Is a series of rings around the cir
| conference which look like railroad
Grades. but which in reality are only
beaches OF the long ago.
And this would seem to prove that
! Ike lake does not rise and fall by in
tcrmttent spells, but during certain
periods which would include eras OF
perhaps fifty to 100 years. as il would
take that long to form the beaches.
Another mysterious feature about
the lake is the gain and lose in the
percentage OF salt which the waite
'nntains The percentage OF saline
matter gets as low as 81, which is
about the condition today and 1t has
been known to go as high as 80 per
'ent within the recollection of the
Normons.
After years Of research but little
light has been shed upon the troubled
past of Salt lake. From whence II re-
ceives its supply of salt and why II
rises and falls have never been ey-
| plained
Will Lovett BE Able To Solve II?
-Four fresh water rivers feed the
lake. but they apparently have moth.
! lHS 10 40 Wltn int INT cdsc VI lhe vi
mlnishment of the percentage of salt
~ the water. FurYffFsyk ins me
Mountains surrounfskf fiN lake. are
found specimens of the group OF crus-
tacean fossils known as trilobites,
md these IN their peliod OF the earth
formation lived only at the bottom OF
he deepest seas.
The question today is. will Robert
!. l.oyett, lead of the greatest rail.
cad syndicate IN this country, and
with unlimited millions AT his com
nand, be able to solve the mystery of
salt lake or will he he forced 10 bow
70 It's unknown power and abandon
ilie work which has cost his company
and its stockholders so much time
and money