Show SOUTHERN UTAH ROUTE MUCH 9 FASTER THAN NORTHERN ONE Speed Test Shows Shows Time to Cobre Can Be e Cut J One One- Third One Third Over Inland Salt Deposits I TEDDY 1 EDDY backed b by Charles Tyng lyng and W. W D. D Rishel Hisha j 1 tho the contentions of Salt SnIt I Lake ako road experts to be right in regard re re- I gard to tho the speediest est course coulse east and aud west through Utah When the tile motorcyclists motor motor- cyclists left here at nt o'clock Friday ni night ht with President Wilsons Wilson's s message mes rues I sage n c to the tile coast the trio with Norman Hopper and others othon favoring their scheme shot itch Dc across the salt snit beds heds with a no message to the thc mayor of Cobre as a 1 speed test with the rid riders is going north through Ogden Og Devon Devon- O beat leat them to Co Cobre ra by f fi hours and 23 5 minutes doing duing the distance between Salt SnIt Lake and Cobre in two thirds of the time required by the northern nt route success 9 scored big In Inthe Inthe inthe the fight to have tho the transcontinental highway go Jo str straight west from Salt Lake rather than through h Ogden Osden and to the north of ot tile Great Salt lake The rO pursued by was Inc due west from rom Salt alt Lake by Va way of Garfield to over the great salt beds to Wendover to Cobre There Tharo are arc no roads roada In that country countr but Judging from rom tho the speed made b by tho the country furnishes an Ideal roadbed location r Even Kven the mud flats which It was argued would make motors and automobiles fall fail in crossIng crossing cross- cross Ing proved little tittle trouble to the lone rider According to report from Cobre 1 this morning he hud bud to leave leavo tho mud beds only fur for a distance of or yards ards taking the bed of tho Western Vestern Pacific tracks track Once on tho the salt beds sailing was vaR and swift Tyng and Rishel nr argued long Ions to ha ha e e the course of or the transcontinental message bearers So gO due west from here but to no avail As i a last resort they decided to show th the authorities and the they did De left the Western Union office at clock o'clock Friday night the tho Instant tho the nine U 1 A a- a A tT ITA lUll s I 1 LIU LV U LII reached Cobre Cobro at o'clock Saturday morning and had to walt wait 5 S hours and 25 minutes for the northern riders tomake to tomake tomako make mako their appearance Tho The distance of the course courso followed by De Is miles Theother Theother The Tho other course Is miles which wa was was too great for he the northern riders in competition with a n shorter distance over a u. natural level sparkling high high- way a like the bearers of President Wilsons Wilson's message also had hadan hadan an nn important document It was dictated dictated dictated dic dic- b by the mighty Wizard Izard of the and was as follows July Jub 23 23 1915 To th tho Wards of or the Wizard the World orld Over For r ages age past havo I from my 01 mountains of or the Wasatch watched the thc Journeys journe's of man over oer these trackless wastes and marveled greatly that they should for or the tue thelast thelast last sixty eight years ears wander as homeless ants first to the south and thence to the north of or the great Inland sea and now having for these many years seen tho vain wanderings of ot these poor humans do I order that my servant ervant and anu representative Charles Tyng president president president dent of ot the Wards of tho the Wizard of the Wasatch to dispatch two of his most trusted and anel fleetest riders that they may f show how the true and only road that leads from the e east st to tho the west and which starts from fromm m my royal rOal city of Salt Lake and leads straight to the setting sun and to tho south of or tho the Great Salt lake over the dead sea Ma of Bonno- Bonno yule Ille and over my great speedway speed of crystal salt to my enterprising city of Wendover And I ord order r that this my message message mes mes- sage b be delivered with all speed to toha t th ha m 1 nr f nf f fr In O that h he f. f maY InaY r forevermore re im i'm r smi smile upon p nth n-nth the tho p poor i- i deluded sons of Og and others holding to the north of ot the lake lako route rout Thus commands U UM HAT I Wizard of or the Wasatch |