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Show "And when will this scheme begin to materialize?" "Just so toon as I can get back to Frisco and submit my report. One of my missions has not been fulfilled but that is owing to the upheaval among tho heads of the Union Pacific and the consequent unsettled condition of affair . We apprehend ap-prehend that the company will encourage encour-age us in a small way we are not hogs but we want Moll of tha Apnla ourselves. There'll be no difficulty about funds, however, for we can handle han-dle that. What we do want, however, is a rate that will enable the tourist aud excursionist to reach us without bankrupting bank-rupting him. If we can get a contract with the road, theh the consumation of the project is as certain as you are sitting there," and folding up his drawings Mr. Weirich thrust them into his alligator satchel, lisped something about drought, aud they repaired to the source of irrigation in the hotel. T0FL0ATJ PAIM A California Syndicate's Gigantio Scheme to Bnild a Resort in the Lap of Neptune, AL HAYMAN AT ITS HEAD. The Authorized Agent of the Millionaire Pool Arrives and Gathers Points on the Project. One of the happiest and at the same time one of tho most lucrative ideas that have been wrung from the buoyant bosom of the grand old lake that has become a source of so much pleasure, bus just been unfolded by a California syndicate, of which Al Hayman, the atute manager of multifarious theatrical theatri-cal enterprises and play houses, each of which has yielded a case of golden eggs, is tho head. It was at the sacrilico of considerable sole leather 4hat The Times missionary mis-sionary traced Mr. George B. Wcirick, one of tho chief members of Mr. Hay-man's Hay-man's vigilant stall, to his moorings i u Hotel Templeton, where the gentleman very reluctantly divulged his project "This thing," said lie "has been tlaimtlnc Mr. Hayman ever since he set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and while he did not feel justified iu taking hold of it without recourse to other and more plethoric purses I think we have now got in shape so that there can lie no doubt as to its culmination. Haven't told you what is yet? Well that's so. Guess I must have been cut out for one of those play rights who al- ways holds the climax for the last act. it's one of tho biggest thing you ever heard of though and when Mr. Hay-man's Hay-man's friends were approached they sprang for it like a famished trout at a battle-fly. The lubricant' I'ourel From Every Pocket and twice the sum could have been lured into right then. Indeed I took a block in it myself and while my best girl pardon me, thai is tho Mrs. W objects to anything that smacks of speculation she' gave me full swing in this. Sho was captivated, hypnotized as it were, and while we have not yet feathered our nest iu a manner that enables us to embrace in luxury whenever when-ever it lifts its seductive head above tho surface we are both of the opinion that there are golden feathers in this scheme, the enterprise that has in view the floating of a gorgeous palace right in The Very t.ap of Neptune. Oh, that's our scheme and the wary Hayman's petted project. I'm amazed that it should have been left to him to (spring it but he's always picking up precious stones that the public has been blindly trampling for years." "But the foundation for tho scheme?" interpolated the interviewer. "As firm, firmer indeed, as any that ever bore a shape. Tho easiest thing in the world. Just like rolling off a log. That is I'm taking tho judgment of nautical architects whom we has had in consultation. Now to be brief, the proposition is to float this palace at a point that will bring it in Convenient and Economical communication with Ogden as well as Salt Lake to mako it as near equidistant equidis-tant from the two cities as is possible. How would we keep It stationary? That's'another easy ouo by tho use of apparatus that is known to every sea-farer sea-farer the gravity bulb. I don't know as you ever saw one but it is made to unfold like the tenticles on the arms of an octopus and once fastened upon tho unfathomed rocks it is released only by a current of air that is fanned through the rubber pipe. It's a sort of anchor that resists the squalliest sea and is employed em-ployed for deep anchorage. The Syndicate has looked critically into all of those things and I dare say that Hayman used up a cargo of paper in preliminary drafting before he persuaded himself that he was correct and unlocked the secret." "And the oost of this mid-lake palace?" pal-ace?" "That is an item for the contractors to decide and one upon which you may secure definite information so soon as I can submit these tracings to California shipbuilders. The cost-of course of the giant ships that tread the briny path is something enormous. This would scarcely be a basis cf comparison, for whilo we would construct it on a roomy scale and prepare to accommodate any rush, the cost of heavy machinery wouid be eliminated. Indeed we would j Rrqulra no Machinery. An electric light and steam plant the latter for heating purposes would be about all the metallic requirements and $100,000 should answer for the first appropriation for the carrying out of the project on a scale of splendid mag- nificence." 1 ) |