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Show SI! REGORDS I BROKEN Bf TRIP One Refers to Time, Another An-other to Quantity of Gasoline Consumed. Claiming to have mad a record In time and alfo m low consumption of gaso-I gaso-I line. c. E Jaco and W. J. Bissell of Los i Aneeies drove into Salt Lake yesterday a fwrnoon. mud-bespatt ered and smiling. , Th-ii- niH.-hine. a specially equipped Ford, ! could hardly be recognized, a fact which " gives some idea of the caked mud which j covered it from headlights to tail lamp, j Four days almost to an hour were consumed con-sumed in making the trip by way of the southern route, detours bringing the total mileage to slightly over 8t9 miles. Less tli an a quart of gasoline remained in a tank which originally held thirty-one gallons gal-lons when they left Pan Bernardino last Wednpfdny afternoon at 3:10 o'clock. Mr. Jaco is t lie general represent a live of a new a uf omobile accessory concern, of which Mr. Bissell is to become the Utah representative. The men bore letters of introduction from A. L. Hamilton, chairman chair-man of t he city commission of Pasadena, and from other California residents. "The roads are unspeakable." declared Mr. Jaco last nisrlit, "especially the stretch from St. George Into Salt Lake. All a lonK the line wo were discouraged by autoitU who were stuck in the nrud and by the owners of hotels. All declared de-clared that it was impossible to get i through. The cars we saw stuck in the mud lertninly were ample evidence to wurratil their belief. The- difficulty on the roads is not rocks, but mud and rut s. "Our tires are not badly worn from the trip; in fact, three of them never left the machine from the lime we started. The mud is of the sticky, miry sort which lianps on once a machine enters it. Oft-timcs Oft-timcs the ruts ca me up to the hubs of our car. Its great sport, but we are glad we are here and hope that the scores of cms which now choke the garages along the way get through as well as we did." |