Show i 244 f i f k 1 ? 3 I restaurant bar orchestra fine pier pleasure boats shooting galleries bowling alleys— "in short every attraction that can be thought of to make a stay at the resort enjoyable”39 The Syracuse Resort was public in 1888 cuse salt Salt Lake-Ogd- en It constructed and opened to the was located near the site of the Syra- works and provided bathing boating dancing and the regular types of recreation associated with the other resorts It was largely because of its location well off the railway line that a spur was constructed from Clearfield to the resort and regular passenger trains reached it from both Ogden and Salt Lake City Saltair was the last constructed of the old resorts as vell as the greatest The rousing success of this new recreation center drove the others out of business Better location and first class facilities provided more competition than the other establishments could meet Furthermore the receding lake left most of the resorts high and dry in the late 1890’s while Saltair built over the lake in five feet of water still furnished excellent swimming Pile driving for the structure proved almost impossible because of a seven foot layer of sodium sulphate just beneath a few i 1 i I $ of Utah and Tourist Guide 11-40 Mary Henderson "History of Great Salt Lake and Environs" 19 39 Savage Views 12 I J |