The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-30
State Chemist and State Food
and Dairy Commissioner
Make Inspection.
THIS DUE TO COMMUNICATION
APPEARING IN THE TRIBUNE
Two Experts Accompanied by {
Tribune Representative and
Others Investigate.

In The Tribune Of Friday appeared
, communication from William Jones i'll
which he said:
Editor Tribune-I am a reader of your
paper when obtanable, and notice the
articles about Saltair which are right
But one very important fact Is over
looked VIZ, tho toilets arc dumped in tho
lake and people battle In the filth, and
tho water IS pumped into salt ponds and
evaporated into salt. This looks like a
good case for the state food Inspector.
Yours, etc, VIM. JONES.
This communication resulted In a
special trip OF State Chemist Harms
and State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Hansen to the resort on Friday. These
gentlemen extended an invitation TO
the newspapers of the city to accom-
pany them. A representative of The
Tribune was one of the party who
made the trip to the beach, The party
consisted of the gentlemen named and
Dan Collett, secretary of the Manufac-
turers' association, and o. S, Jackson of
the Inland Crystal Salt company.
At the beach every facility was of.
fered the party to make n thorough IN
spection of the resort and a launch was
placed at the service of the party for
the purpose. The Tribune is always
willing TO give the devil his due, it is
ALWAYS fair. hence IT frankly states that
its correspondent, Mr.. Jones, is mis-
taken when he saws that the toilets are
dumped into the lake.
Septic Tanks Constructed.
The management of the resort early
i'm the spring bad septic tanks made and
placed IN position to care for the toilets,
These tanks are of solid concrete, are
three in number, on each side of the
l.l. lA
bath rooms, and are, according to
Professor Harms and Commissioner
Hansen, the best and most complete san
.tary arrangements that can be had.
They arc air tight and there is germ
hat lives In these air tight compart-
ments that destroys all the solids that
are poured in. The contents are
siphoncd into the three compartments
md when the water pours out into the
lake from the third one ii is clear as
,Tvstal.
At the pumping station of the salt
company there is tank about twenty
feet i'll depth in the water and the
water that is pumped from the lake
comes from the bottom of this tank
when it is sent through the flume into
;hc salt ponds
While the toilets, as said are not
dumped into the lake it should be said
that these toilets are outside the pa
rilion upon which the bath houses are
located. and in this pavilion no pro-
vision of any kind is made for the
bathers. hence of the thousands who
are said 10 bath MT the resort there is
no provision made for them and the
result is that a great many nuisances
are necessarily committed that cannot
be otherwise than detriment to bath
crs and cause more or less filth to be
carried into the water
Spiders in Plenty.
AS to the spiders at the resort there
is no question about them and they are
Of all sizes, while their webs are spun
everywhere. Mr.. Langford said to The
Tribune that he was do.ng everything
in his power 10 eradicate the insects,
that sprays were being used. nicotine
was being tested on Friday and that
men were employed to sweep the pillars
and uprights IN the endeavor to rid
the place Of the dangerous pests, and
that he believed he would succeed. He
declared that he was confident this
would be done if there was lake full,
as the eggs which the insects laid would
be Matched out and the cold Of the
winter would freeze out the insects.