| Show I A NEW BOAT LINE Great Salt Lake Navigation Company Com-pany Preparing for the Season Admiral E J Smith Mann er Says the Company Com-pany will Open a Summer Resort to be Known as Island Park There have been many effort made to establish es-tablish a line of boats on the Great Salt lake but through bad management and lack of capital to secure suitable vessels they have ended in failures Last year Captains Davis and Morton battled heroically to sail crafts that were in no way suitable for the dense salt waters Mr Ed J Smith was a frequent passenger on these boats and he spent many days and weeks in studying tho obstacles ob-stacles that by many were believed to be a I barrier to successful navigation Neither did he confine his observations entirely to I the lay of the waters but extended his studies to the topography of the I islands With kodak in hana he snatched glimpses of the many beautiful coves and tho towering peaks with his camera After I a summers cutting on the briny waters ho loCatr on hnv i n nun nn nn for THE GREAT ISLAND RESORT OF THE FUTURE Tins place where Admiral Smith selected id on the east coast of Antelope island sixteen six-teen miles from Garfield and eight miles from Syracuse being directly opposite Lake Park From this delightful spot on a clear morn ing can be seen the mirage pictures of thereat the-reat temple suspended in the sky with silver threads while the sunsets in their play of colors on the mountains rovtal a I world of beauty and a scene of enchantment I enchant-ment iTo i-To secure the necessary capital to build a resort at this point Admiral Smith organ ized the P GREAT SALT LAKE NAVIGATION COMPA2TT I are in which interested a number of Denver capitalists The Little Harry which cruised these waters last year without sufficient boiler capacity is being fitted out with a Willard marine engine and will be able to skit the waters with fifty passengers at a good speed The company will also have a new boat j built with powerful engines strong enough I to tug fiat boats on the lake and will be I used for freighting The mines in the I west shore mountains which were abandoned aban-doned in 1871 or 1S2 will be opened and j I the ore transported on the flat boats towed by the tug The company is also figuring with a San Francisco firm for an electrical gas engine which has proved such a success that the government bas adopted it on a number of small launches on the coast The advantage of this motor power over steam is that a barrel of benzine will run a boat for necessity several of days thus doing away with the BURDENING THE BOAT with carrying several tons weight of water The Little Harry will be renamed tha Antelope and will make daily round trips from Garfield to Syracuse stopping at Island Park on both passages This will allow passengers three hours at IslanJ park where they can secure dinner and put in the balance of their time in climbing I tho mountains or gunning for cottontails j I or chasing the wild horses Sleeping accommodations will be provide I for thirivfivo or fifty persons and tourists desiring to stop on the island for a few days can find plenty to eat and I place to rest their limbs at night I SEVERAL COTTAGES WILL BE BUILT and Island Park promises to become thq I fashionable resort on the lake The beach is the finest on the shore of the great lake j and far superior to Garfield |
