What to see in America . by a beehive. In few cities is electric energy moregenerally utilized. The street cars are driven by the powerof a mountain cataract thirty-five miles away. Streets,public buildings, and dwellings are lighted from the samesource, and the factories and industrial establishments areelectrically operated. No summer visit to Salt Lake City is complete without atrip to Saltair Beach, eighteen miles west, where is to be hadthe most unique bathing in the world, in the Great Salt Lake. , You can frolic inthe water as youplease withoutfear of body floatslike a cork
What to see in America . by a beehive. In few cities is electric energy moregenerally utilized. The street cars are driven by the powerof a mountain cataract thirty-five miles away. Streets,public buildings, and dwellings are lighted from the samesource, and the factories and industrial establishments areelectrically operated. No summer visit to Salt Lake City is complete without atrip to Saltair Beach, eighteen miles west, where is to be hadthe most unique bathing in the world, in the Great Salt Lake. , You can frolic inthe water as youplease withoutfear of body floatslike a cork, and ifyou balance your-self in an uprightposition yourhead and shoul-ders are abovethe surface. Among Saltairs pleasure resort attractions isone of the largest dancing pavilions in existence. The water of the lake is one quarter salt. To secure thesalt for commercial purposes three or four hundred acres ofland on the borders of the lake are diked off, leveled, andcleaned. In the spring of the year water is pumped from. Salt Works, Great Salt Lake Utah 391 the lake into great reservoirs, and later is pumped into the harvesting pond to a depth of six inches. This depth is maintained against the rapid evaporation by constantly adding water until, at the end of the season, there are four or more inches of damp salt on the bed. When most of the remaining water has evaporated, lines of plank are laid on the salt, and men with wheelbarrows gather and pile it in heaps that each contain about 2000 tons. For a short period it remains in the piles to thoroughly drain, and after that it is either shipped away just as it is to feed cattle and sheep, or goes into a refinery where it is ground and sifted and packed for household use. The Southern PacificRailroad, which formerly went around the north end of the lake, now crosses it inthe middle west of Ogden on a trestle twenty-nine mileslong that cost S4,500,000. Forty^three miles of distance aresaved, and a climb of 1500 feet. At Salduro,
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