The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-26
SAILING GREAT SALT SEA.

| Out in Great Sale Lake, about forty
miles north of west from Saltair. says
the Sale Lake Tribune, is a great rock.
covering an area of about FIVE acres. 1t
is destitute of vegetation. But nest
ling on the barren spot are millions of
water fowl. TO this island are carried
| every day tons of fish taken from the
| Bear and Weber rivers and other
streams which pour their waters into
the great inland sea.
On the west side of Antelope island,
perhaps thirty miles northwest Of Salt
air, the famous White Rock bay, it's
name being derived from a great white
rock which rears itself up several hun
dred feet from the beach.
Farther to the north are the mouths
of two big streams-the Weber and
the Bear-whose waters are poured
into the great lake.
And then across the north end of the
lake is the wonderful piece of railroad
engineering, the Great Sale Lake cut
Off, originally twenty three miles Of
trestle work, but which has since been
reduced by fills to twelve miles of tres
tie built on piles, from hundred to
two hundred feet long and which
necessitated the cutting down of 1926
trees or a forest two square miles in
[area, and if placed end to end would ex-
tend distance of $40 miles, the con-
struction of which required the SER
vices of an army of 5000 men working
twenty -four hours a day for one year,
and four months, and which cost mil
lions of dollars.
Most Delightful Voyage.
This was seen on a most delightful
voyage made Monday, June Sth, on the
great salt sea on the twin propeller
Irene, owned by the Great Salt Lake
Navigation company. 1t was the mai
den trip of the vessel and during the
nine hours sail she behaved most ad-
mirably and rode all kinds of seas, from
the placid waters along the beaches of
the isles to the more turbulent waters
of midlake. Captain Anderson was at
the wheel, the passengers forty in
number, were the guests of Anderson
and Webster of the Navigation COM
pany and of Messrs. Nelson and Lang
ford of the Saltair Beach company.
The Irene is sixty-foot boat, Is
equipped with two 25-horsepower gaso-
line engines, carries a dynamo which
furnished light of the boat and for the
electric searchlight has accommoda-
tions for fifty persons during the day,
and when the cabins are completed can
care for thirty people at night. 1t Is
the first one of several boats of like
build which it is proposed to put in
service on the lake should this one
prove what it's builders and owners
believe Supplies sufficient for weeks
voyage can be carried, and the company
is of the opinion that it can build up
such a business that parties of from
ten to thirty-five people will charter
the boats for cruise around the lake,
stopping at the several islands as suits
their convenience, and anchoring at
night in some one of the numerous lit
tie bays that indent the islands, as also
the mainland
The party which was on the maiden
trip of the Irene sailed from Saltair
at 1145 o'clock and returned to the
pier at S:45 in the evening. The day
was perfect one, the voyage to the
great cutoff and the islands most de-
lightful and the voyage the longest one
ever made in one day on the lake since
boats were put on the surface of it's
waters, the log showing a run of 11S
miles.
The view of Saltair beach and of the
greatest of all smelling plants in the
world, including the concentrators at
Garfield, on the homeward voyage was
most beautiful, with the hundreds of
electric lights reflected back from the
waters. 1t was voyage that those
who participated will always look back
to with pleasure, as it was a day well
spent