Bonneville Salt Flats

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859 Bonneville Salt Flats-World's Fastest Speedway-Near Great Salt Lake, Utah A Giant Racer Making a World's Record BA-H2738

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2 Σ. The Bonneville Salt Flats is a salt deposit left by the receding of ancient Lake Bonne- ville. This deposit covers about 159 square miles extending some nine miles along U.S. Highways 40 and 50 and the Western Pacific Railroad. The salt is white, crystalline aggre. gate, porous, hard and rigid so that it sup- ports loaded trucks. In 1912 this area was tested as a race track and has since proved to be the greatest auto- mobile speedway in the world. In 1931 Ab Jenkins of Salt Lake City broke all former world speed records. Here on September 15, 1938, John Cobb established a record of 350.07_miles per hour. The next day Captain G. E. T. Eyston set a world's record of 357.50 miles per hour. Aug. 26, 1939, John Cobb again became the world's automobile speed king by driving his car 369.74 miles per hour. 19502 Sat 2:00 me are about 200 miles foon Rise mal med