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Show A SALT LAKE SARATOGA. Grand Project of the D. & R G. W. 1 to Establish a Splendid Lake Bathing- Resort. Salt Lakers to Survey the Beach To- Morrow to Find a Desired 1 Location. Which Will Be Somewhere Near Kays-ville, Kays-ville, Half-Way Between Salt Lake and Ogden. To-morrow Receiver W. H. Bancroft, : of the Denver &. Rio Grande Railway, and several other enterprising citizens of Salt Lake, go to Black Rock and take the little steamer on a cruise of inspection. To a Democrat reporter Mr. Bancroft stated that, through the urgent demands of the pleasure-seeking public, the Rio Grande had considered the advisability of building a grand bathing resort halfway half-way between here and Ogden, on the beach off Kaysville. To-morrow, the party of capitalists will make a tour of the beach of Great Salt Lake for the sole purpose pur-pose of deciding on the best locality for the fine project. Mr. Bancroft's attention at-tention was called to the matter by the continual cry for a more commodious and pleasant resort for bathers in the great inland sea. For many years Black Rock, Garfield and Lake Point have run very inadequate resorts for the large patronage given them, and the people of Ogden have wanted some half-way place where they could meet their Salt Lako friends and join in a float without it costing them $5 for each bath. The prospective grounds for these elegant ele-gant accommodations lie about one mile due west from the Rio Grande road from Kaysville. The shore will be sounded, and a good bottom secured for bathers, which will not endanger the livos of children and poor swimmers. From the narrow-gauge a side track will be run to the shore for tho nse of all special trains, and fine bath houses and waiting rooms will be constructed. A-breakwater A-breakwater will be built out into the lake and. boarded over, for the approach of visitors. This contrivance will be made by driving piles into the ground in the shape of a letter V, with the upper end extendiug into the lake, which will inclose a large portion of the shore for bathing, and keep the inclosure free from shifting sand and floating trash which might otherwise accumulate. The natural advantages are unsurpassed along the lake for such a resort. At this point a fine stream of mountain water empties into the lake, which will furnish an inexhaustible supply for drinking, culinary and all needed "purposes. This sparkling little stream is lined with trees that give an abundance of shade, which is something the old resorts have never had, and but lately given any attention at-tention to. The eating accommodations will be conducted to the tastes of every comer. If a visitor wants a 25-cent. meal tie can get it. If he desires a fine trout, chicken or steak, it can be had at reasonable reason-able prices. This will be a great source of satisfaction to many who have always prepared a basket lunch under difficulties, difficul-ties, because they could not get a change of diet at tho old resorts for love or money. The project is a most happy one, and will be hailed by every reader as another enterprise of the prosperous and public-spirited baby road. It is hoped that Mr. Bancroft "and party will put the scheme through with the characteristic charac-teristic spirit of the Rio Grande, and furnish fur-nish bathers with a new and modern resort re-sort worthy of the fine natural advantages held out. |
