Harvesting Salt Near Great Salt Lake

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $4.95

Stock #:45488
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Salt Lake City
State: Utah (UT)
County: Salt Lake
Publisher: Desert Book Company
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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This Great Dead Sea, the largest in the world, is located 18 miles west of Salt Lake City. It covers an approximate area of 2,140 square miles, being 50 miles wide and 75 miles long with an average depth of 13 feet. Like the Dead Sea in Palestine, it is fed by the Jordon River, but has no known outlet other than evaporation. The Salt Shrimp is the only living insect known to exist therein. The water is 21 per cent salt and thousands of tons of salt are shipped annually form this source. You are invited to attend Utah's Centennial in 1947.

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