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Show A FINE STEAMBOAT. It Will lis launched on Utah Laka About April 10, The steamboat which has been building build-ing at I'rovo is receiving attention from painters and will bo launched about April 10. She is sixty feet from stem to stern, has a twelve foot beam aud a' twenty-five compound horse power eugino. Toe steamer will rarry 175 passengers on the two decks. She is provided with fifty life preservers and' all modem improvements. The boat is constructed of solid white oak and is cne of the finest in the United States. When completed sho will have cost between be-tween $11000 and $7000. Col C. 1). Moore furnished the plans from which the steamer was constructed. The boat will ply between I'rovo, Battle Creek and Eureka lauding and will afford tourists aud others an opportunity op-portunity of enjoying some of the finest scenery in the country. It is the intention inten-tion of the owners of the boat to make Utah lake a rival of Garlield beach the ('(lining summer, Pleasure seekers can leave Salt Lake City in the forenoon and the day at or on the lake and return re-turn here in the evening. The liio (irande Western will make this a feature fea-ture of their road in the summer, trains stopping at Battle Creek, where a pier will be built and a landing for the steamer established. The owners of the boat are II. II. Bean of the I'rovo City Lumber company, Colonel C. B. Moore, civil engineer of the California it Nevada Ne-vada railroad, Adam Hogg of Denver and others. |