Show THE BRINY DEEP 111i q f i 3 The Story of the > First Vessel that Plowed the Great Salt Lake Main Two or three weeks ago a HERALD HER-ALD reporter ran across the articles that for many years furnished motive mo-tive power for the General Garfield in the boiler shops of Messrs Haynes Sons Since then they have been separated from their surroundings sur-roundings and are none the worse for their service in that steamer The sight of the boilers and the reflections of the reporter on the base use to which the steamer was to be put hereaftera saloon led to inquiries regarding the date when the steamer was launched as the City of Corinne the necessities which led to her construction and her subsequent uses all of which were published in a very entertaining entertain-ing if we do say it who should not article Investigations on this subject elicited some facts which may not generally have been known regarding the navigation of the greatest salt water lake in the world and these facts reveal to us that The General Garfield was not the first vessel to plow the saline depths of our great lake and it may never be known which was the first vessel ves-sel boat or dugout which floated over its placid but emetic waters In the Museum Professor Barfoot will show those who desire it a rough boat made by taking the heart out of a log said to have been constructed by the famous Kit Carson in which that renowned frontiersman is reported to have paddled over this salt sea The red man may have been there before Kit even but as the blooming son of the forest does not know anything any-thing about it now and does not care Kit holds a good claim to what would otherwise be an apochryphal honor But leaving Carsons log and the many skows out of the questionthe first genuine boat of any pretentious which Great Salt Lake proudly bore on its bosom was built and launched by General P Edward Connor The same was a schooner which floated under the titie of Pioneer This schooner was used to transport ores merchandise and the like to and from Stockton to and from Mineral Point After career that was not very checkered but which was not without events she was hauled a distance up the Jordan River and there ignobly allowed to rot Her day of usefulness having past she was awarded the honor of going the way of all flesh she decayed The same gentleman had constructed con-structed a small steamer which he named Kate Connor and she was similarly used for a time Bishop Christopher Layton subsequently sub-sequently purchased her He extracted ex-tracted her boilers and engine and from urging a steamer over the lake they were converted into driving driv-ing a grist mill The boat thus robbed was employed to transport sheep to and from Fremont Island Whatever became of her is not definitely known but she is supposed sup-posed to have stranded in the vicinity vicin-ity of Kaysville and there left It is believed her boilers and engine are yet in use manufacturing flour in Kaysville or thereabouts One of the neatest things that ever floated on Salt Lake was the little steamer which was owned by Hon John W Young called the Lady of the Lake She was built and intended to be used purely for pleasure purposes but for reasons never proved a success and ultimately I ulti-mately went down near the mouth of the Jordan The fateofthese steamers makes it clear that the people of Salt Lake City are not of a seagoing turn and the customary effects of a sail on the I innocent brine are a decided seagoing sea-going turn in the locality where most persons generally live Looking Look-ing at it in any light one may it is no the pleasantest reflection in the world for a thrifty housewife to feel that the fine picnic she has prepared pre-pared is to be voluntarily delivered to the capacious lake and a man after taking a bracing glass is greatly disinclined to treat Salt Lake to it but as a sail on the lake generally has the remarkable effect of producing a most earnest and unanimous desire to contribute everything to the god of the waters persons are getting wary of the influence in-fluence and make sure of their picnics pic-nics and bevrages by onshore on-shore There are now quite number of yatchs on the lake and sometimes races occur bat for general use there is no longer an aquatic bicycle bi-cycle > |