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Identifier: outing58newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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a apparentlynormal, except the intestines, which pre-sented throughout the entire lengthmore or less extensive areas of inflam-mation. Microscopic examination of theintestinal contents revealed immensenumbers of coccidia in various stages ofdevelopment. There were many theories as to thesource of infection, but the one generallyaccepted, and undoubtedly the true one,was this: The Jordan River is the de-pository of Salt Lake City sewage.Near the point where it empties into thelake it spreads out into a wide and shal-low mouth. The season had been anunusually dry one, the river was low,and wide mud areas had been left par-tially uncovered and strewn with sew-age, upon which large numbers of duckswere constantly feeding. The fact that ducks fly long distancesin a few hours probably accounts for thefact that many ducks were dying inother sections, north and south of GreatSalt Lake. If this was in fact the sourceof infection, the remedy is undoubtedlyto dredge the channel near the mouth of
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74 THE OUTING MAGAZINE the Jordan. This would carry all sew-age directly into the lake, instead ofspreading it over the mud flats as atpresent. My two horses, Heart and Button,were fat and frisky and in splendidshape when I saddled Heart, packedButton, and turned northward, en routeto Idaho and Wyoming. My coursetook me directly through Salt Lake City The near-by mountains, where theyspread to make room for the valley, weresplotched with green and yellow; wherethey draw together again, on the oppo-site side of the valley, the interveningautumn haze had tinged them a delicate,opalescent blue and purple. Though the days were filled withbalm and sunshine, the nights were grow-ing cold, and every morning now the

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