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Show 'STEAMER FOR UTAH LAKE, Vessel Will Have Capacity for One Hundred Hun-dred Passengers and Much Freight. Spocla) to Tho Tribune. PROVO. Julv 22. To solve the difficulty diffi-culty of transporting passengers and freight to and from the railroads across Utah lake, tho Moslda Land company will place a big steamer In commission on tho lake this summer. Tho boat will havo a capacity of ono hundrod passengers or about loOO pounds of freight, and will ply between Geneva, the nearest railroad point to the lake, and Moslda. on the west shore of the lake. It will bo the largest boat in tho state or that ever was in tho state, except ex-cept tho old Gartlold. used at ono time on the Great Salt lake. It will be equipped with a. powerful on-glne on-glne and built so strong that, it is said, there will be no danger from winds and waves such as has confrontod tho navigators navi-gators of this Inland sea in the past. Tho compuny will also build a hotel at Moslda for the accommodation of prospective pros-pective land purchasers and visitors to tho new town. There aro many people coming from tho east In quest of homos and farms. Most of those who buy land In the Moslda dlslrli t aro from Kansas and Nebraska. The land is claimed to bo exceptionally well adapted to fruit culture. cul-ture. It is watered by means of a large pumping system with water from the lake. |