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Show Applying over ten- year period - 1920 - 1930: Natural increase - 18.1% - 87,061 Actual increase - 58> 451 28,610 During the decade from 1920 to 1930, over 29,000 people moved from the State of Utah, most of them young men. Why did they not remain here? People go where they can better their material conditions, and make a better living. Think of what it would mean to Utah and the youth of the State, if the Valley of the Great Salt Lake could be made a more glorious garden; a more beautiful land, where fields cf plenty and beautiful homes stretched out to the very edge of the Lake beyond. The answer to this problem is the reclaiming of the waters of the Great Salt Lake and the making them by a process of diking, a lake of pure fresh water. Can this be done? |