The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-10

for upwards of three years and yet
she was working her own engines and
when we had inspected her hold and
had looked into the CaVernOus depths
where of late the fish had had their
home, she started once more on her
journey. and pulled us steadily up to
the ctty's harbor, great, gaunt. I'M
slightly hulk, yet marking what prom
Uses to be a new epoch in the marine
life of the world.
Something like three years ago this
boat, an English ship, the Wilton by
name, engaged in the ore trade from
Gelivara in the north of Sweden ran
onto a rock in the harbor of Lulea, at
the northern point of the Baltic in the
gulf of. Bothnia. It was a huge hole
that was torn in her side. 40 feet long
by ten wide, and she went speedily to
the bottom. She lay there some time
and at last a proposition was made
by q company, organized to raise her
to put her on her feet, or on her sea
! legs perhaps would be better term
| to float her for so many thousands of
| dollars Negotiations were pending some
! time. 1t was q triangular affair be-
tween the ships company, the insur-
| ance people and the company formed to
raise the boat At last the deal was
! effected and the company formed to
| difficult thing to do.
SANK THE SHIP PURPOSELY.
When she was we'll aaoat the fnan-
cial part of the deal came uD for con-
sidertaion. There was a hitch of some
kind, and the insurance people and the
! Neptune company, organized to raise
| her, could not agree. After a deal Of
| comforting back and forth all of which
proved fruitless, the captain of the crew
! that had raised the ship towed her out
in the harbor and sank her.
| 1t was an audaciGus thing to do but
( it was thoroughly effectual way of
! settling the difficulty. The insurance
| people would not pay what the Neptune
| company asked. The Neptune people
! had raised the boat, but they had not
! stipulated that they would keep her
| raised. They believed also in putting
I things hack in the place where they
| we're first found, so down she sank
! among the fishes of the harbor of Lu-
! leo.
| 1t is a little town on the far north
! coast of Sweden, and not much was
known about the affair, but the heroic
| treatment of the case by the captain
was long the talk of the town Two
years pasesd by. The boat and her
! cargo of iron ore We're rusting at the
bottom of the Baltic, and there was
every indication that they would both
! stay there.
DE LAVAL STEPS IN.
But a number Of Stockholm genSlegns.
! determined that they would make am
other effort TO land this huge aquatt-
| prize. Tldey ougs-tZed a company, en-
tered into Negotiations with the owileEe
Of the sIlip. agreed to raise She boat
and deliver the cargo to the GWnisrs. if
n turn. taey sdl1uia have the strip fcg
tfleir trouble and expense, ara the dea'
( went through But they had far better
arrangements for the raising tlan per
haTls amy other e,liD-raksiIlg company
had ever had before The king of al
Swedish inventors, De Laval, who 4
known the word over for HIS Invention
by which milk AID cream En1y be sepdr-
ai..,d and for ether inVeIt11rlg of inter
national Importance as we'll, had in
yen'.ed o steam turbine pump, a ttl1Sra..
wheel operated upon by steam if1stea5
of water and ca3able OF breat power
with very Slight weight in the engine
The hole IN the bow Of fhe boat wat
patched up, two huge 5tesl tubes, eact
as large almost as q mans body, Weul
sInlx into the. boats hold and ci.nneeteg
with the steam pump above The waite
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