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Show PROMONTORY SERVES- ITS PURPOSE The steamer Promontory, the largest steamboat that ever forged li3 way through the heavy waters of Great Salt lake, now lies dismantled and forever useless on the beach near the point after which the ship was christened. chris-tened. The machinery and all other portable fixtures have been removed, and the bare hull has been abandoned to the elements. The vessel was a stern wheeler and was built in a San Francisco yard eight years ago. It was shipped in sections to the lake by the Southern Pacific railroad and after being put i together was launched by the railroad company to assist In the work of building the Ogdcn Lucin cutoff. For three years it was used In carrying railroad ties between Promontory Uoint and Bagley and Its twenty-two sta'e rooms were used by the men in charge of the vessel and the work on the trestle and llll-ln. The ship was equipped with electric elec-tric lights and many other conveniences conveni-ences thai were not accessible to the men camping on the land. The boat cost tho railroad company about $2."i,00 and was practically useless use-less when the building of the cut-oif was completed. The vessel was left lying Idle near Promontory Point for nearly five yeara. being used on rare occasions for Kcrnl -pleasure trips by railroad officials,; Sometime ago there was a deal on to sell the boat to the Saltalr company, to be used for excursion purposey-at the summer resort, re-sort, but the deal was never consummated con-summated and last week the railroad ordered that the boat be dismantled. The work of stripling the vessel of Its machinery was completed yesterday yester-day and today the erstwhile monarch I of the lake lies supine upon the beach. |