THE SALT LAKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 29 September 1883, Page 4

THE SALT LAKE.

The Lender correspondent in America, writing from Utah Territory, says: In the afternoon crowds, including Mormons and Gentiles, go to bathe in Halt Lake. A light railway runs down to tin; bathing.placo (20 miles); fare 50 cents (2s), and bathingrdress 25 cents, Ovep 100Q bathers went clown during the Sunday, and this, I am told, is the usual average during the summer. At the bathing-place, such a scene! An eld river ferry steamer, General Garfield, is fitted up with hundreds of boxes in which you dress and join the crowd of bathers, men and women altogether, Some of the gentle maidens scorn the 25-cent baglike dress dealt out to pies and females alike, and bring their own suits, which are of the latest French pattern, and attractive of the larger share of interest on the part of the non-biithers, who are accommodated with seats on the hurricane-deck of the old steamer.

This Qre.it Salt Lake is a]] extra: ordinary feature of Utah." It is 80 miles in length by 50 wide, and is ■l2ooft above the level of the sea, thus being 100 ft lower than the aito of the city, and though pure aod limpid,, it is of brine so dense that live-gallons of it ovuporates to one gallon of common salt, A bathe oil its surface is lhxury itself, You cannot mako yourself sink; At breast high it is all but impossible to keep your feet down. Up they come, and you swim about orilie'on your buck, light a cigar," and revel in enjoyment. This place is becoming a great summer resort for invalids and pleasure-seekers from tjio JJastorn States, The surprisng feature of thd lake is tliat it forms the "sink" for the watershed of Western. Utah. A half-dozen tolerably large fresh water rivers are continually flowing into it, and tliero is no visible outlet. The geological theory is that the desert passed over between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch Mountains was once a large inland soa, of which the present Great Salt Lake is but the remains. Over 12,000 tons of salt are collected by evaporation process annually,'and sold to the ore-smelters of Colorado, Ndvada, Montana, and Utah .at sdol (20s) a ton,

A contributor the the Sydney Town and Country Journal, in an article upon the breeding of animais ia New ■•iouth Wales, saysln one year our breeders have been forced to pay the Colony of New Zealand: £50,000 lor heavy draught mares, and <£lo,ooo for heavy or working horses. From the .same place nearly all horse peas brans, linseed, carrots and potatoes come. We have been compelled to pay to other Colonies almost £IOO,OOO for stud sheep and £30,000 for stud •■attic, and while all this is going on wo talk about our superiority and advancement, yet few believe it, for lew only come here for our stud catsle >r horses, or even for sheep, so that >ur boast is a mere delusion. Let us ook at the thing straight, i and say •vliat we mean to do."

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