one ever saw it, for it was all in the long, long ago, before the time of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. II. The Lake That Turned to Salt O NCE a river ran from Lake Bonne­ville to the Pacific Ocean. This river ran north through Red Rock Pass into the Snake River, and the Snake River runs into the Columbia and the Columbia runs to the sea. Then the place where Salt Lake City now is was nine hundred feet under water. But by and by there was less rain. Maybe, too, the summers were warmer. Lake Bonneville grew smaller and smaller till it was no larger than Lake Erie. No stream now ran from it, for its surface was lower than the pass to the north. Now, if you pour water into a pan and set it out in the warm sunshine, by and by the water will be gone. It will have evaporated. But if there were ever so little salt in the water, the salt will still be in the pan after the water is gone. 9