p. 525 | The Rising Waters of Great Salt Lake

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

The Rising Waters of Great Salt Lake

GREAT SALT LAKE is twelve feet higher than it was in 1850, and is four feet above the level of last year. The rise the present summer is caused by the unusual amount of snow which fell upon the Wahsatch last winter. By the increased depth of water, some of the finest bathing places have been ruined and others have been sought out. Besides, the salinity of the lake has been so reduced by the floods of fresh water, that bathers can scarcely float. Instead of almost thirty per cent of salt in solution, as at Fremont's visit in 1842, it is doubtful if more than ten per cent. exists now.