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Show BID WISHES ME HARD 0NT01STS Reports for Week Show Roads Drying Up; List of Passing Pass-ing Motorists. Bad washes nn nearly all western roads -;is th Information brought Info Automobile Automo-bile club headquarters last week by tbe transcontinental tourists that dally ask for road Information. Tho roads have practically dried out from the recent :storm3. but th bai waahes still exist. The big Alc.o truck reached Salt Lake on Thursday on Its way from Philadelphia Philadel-phia to California and spent two days In town. Driver Frank Morln tells some wonderful tales of hardships through Wyoming during the recent storms. He selected the Parley's canyon routo Into Salt Iake from the east and said It wis the best stretch of road he saw since leaving the Missouri river. Going west tho truck took the northern roule through Snowvllle and used the route mapped by The Tribune last week aa far as Snow-yiric. Snow-yiric. List of Tourists. The bureau "f information of the Atito-Mle Atito-Mle Club of Utah reports the following tourists registered during tho pa.st week Fiank Hall and party of two, from Bartley. Neb., to Salt Lake and return. J, H. Smith and party of four, from Ponca. Okla., to Los Angeles. William O'Brien, from Denver to Manhattan. Man-hattan. Nov. Frank Morln and party of four driving Alco truck from Philadelphia to California Califor-nia E. F. Stark from Richmond, Va, to Ran Francisco. Dr. Pitney and party of three, from Tacoma. Wash., to Philadelphia W. Kult, from Los Angeles to Emporia, Kan. San Francisco to New York. EX ROUTE. Aug. 13. --Avoid northern Nevada, also steep mountains In northern north-ern California We have been furnished the route through Utah and Wyoming by The Tribune and Automobile Club of Utah, and have found It good. Many thanks. Ollt In Nevada, don't go by Battle Bat-tle Mountain or Golconda, Wlnnemucca or Lovelock Bad road at Corlnne Don't take short cut from Brigham City to Kelton. We have toured In the Orient (China and Japan). We could not get gasoline, so returned to the United States, via Honolulu, and are traveling to New York. MR. AND MRS, C, W. BROWN of Los Angeles. Lawton, Okla., to Los Angeles. ELY. Nev., Aug. 17. Members of partv, A. B. Dunlop, wife and daughter. Mileage Salt Lak to Ely. 8W. Time, two days. Drive slow, as the roada are badly washed. Some mud in spots. Not much sand. Plenty of dust and a few heavy grades. No trouble In getting over this road, but cannot make fast time. A. B. DUNLOP. 8alt Lake to Wyoming. EN ROUTE. Aug 20. Members of partv, William Langton, A H Woodruff, H. A. Langton, W. F. Langton, L. J. Xaylor, Clifford Langton. Roads bad through Echo canyon. Bridge washed out and bad to push two machines over ravine twelve feet deep. Took six men to get us over Commissioners promise to fix road at once Big cloudburst caused the damage. All in party very fine. W. LANGTON. |