BED OF SOLID SALT

Evening Star, Issue 16777, 4 July 1918, Page 1

BED OF SOLID SALT

DFrOSIT. On :'<« t of !'»l (./' 11 .Si.': Lake, ia I'lM, t*ir;f ur . p-i lit <li ">d r tcs of land .11--- f'ykr.i , If, I'Wii-»J, .r;id clawed. TLan • ir nj.ti.-r .or trli.cu '.-."• ' four ttibl'S.pooijiiil* intiiiti oii«_- ol tA'' - pum-.i'-i irvrn the. ]( inii, jrroat r =i-r. j.ru piiJ adcrt-d U • , irj tor " !.!"'■> jt.'-n It is finally ;,u!i.;. J into ikt harvesting }i .ud to a dt-. ih or •' i. .viticl l c< pth i« ii.aiu- • ii'i'.l agT!ij'.i t»i i.■ '* »va{ -ir'i&jon hv *»oiij -•.iiitly addinr ii'on rr the *i*(r. Towar* rr'i'p ir-ti/'t. 'f -<"! d -alt en th;>i bed, a.ci to tvapciate t / a »r,T<.r in 'St. >i*iihoOau plank* i if.f.wn down, aiid men withj i- in hffip- of nVui. 2,000 tfns ea<'h .". «L"i • !>' rioJ *!■ whiih ii :»■ thoroughly flrainf a, it <. !. r ;-ii>p: ed on; u.- it hj, far the v*- oi r-'-'i j."i! «Vrp. or ;;jib ir:lo Biit> rtfu.crv, vb'i- crnridir.g and siftiaij :-ud p- •i:ir? in cu: .• -> p r ' P ar « it for hiir-el.o'd u'P. lip pral'v authorities and <l dared io b». almost per-\V!.i-n the watrr= -if what had been, in preh'' 1 ' •." tr.i"!, » '."pj; inland hike receded tc ;in eastern side- of tb' Oqmrrh Mountains, a"! 1 lonneJ I.'.' <;> eat v 'it Lata, it left hind it," a hundred jciles of Salt, Lake Citv, on the new line of the \vastern Pacific, P bed if "<ol ; d s-.!r, 60 miles long, 12 to 20 milts wide, and from 16 to 2-3 feet deep. State engineers say that the amount of "ialt ir< that old late-bed w not loss than jy - (i j n<v-i T nrio tony, which would require J6i750',003' trains of 20 cars each, to ship That i 5 " Larpe figure—too larg-e lor ordiWiry pr-07.Tr- dearly to comnrf her.fi. Tf that CUn>b»r of freight care were packed close toin the State of Rhode Island they wrulil oec-.iw every square foot, and then ! owr.jTi info '.Massachusetts aad Connecticut. 1 pi" ►•l''. ts over 98 per cent, pure, and is '«* scliJUy packed that, when ths railroad w*nMh.cufrh. power-drills drove small holes ifi and then dynamite was -used to vt&ur&s thMS holes to take in the telegraph.