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Show McKen8 Great Freight Hani, Milford, March 24. If nothing serious has happened today in the management of the same, P. B. Mc-Keon's Mc-Keon's team train is tonight going . down the last slope before striking the incline leading up to the great De La Mar (Nevada) mines, thus . covering the distance of 160 miles , between Milford and that point in twenty-one days. To get at some idea of the undertaking, consider that for thirty-eight miles of the distance both axles of the heaviest loaded wagons were dragging the mud. It often took forty span of the heaviest draft horses in southern Utah to move a wagon. In one instance in-stance the huge shaft toppled over against an embankment and not within forty miles were there timbers enough to make a skid for reloading. reload-ing. -Here the shovel was used and excavations made for sinking the wagon level with the surface, in which condition the load was again JIcKeou's Great Freight Haul. Continued from first pige. put in place. The wheels of the strong Studebaker wagons ploughed ditches. in the earth like irrigation canals, leaving a track behind not unlike that of some railroad grader. Nearly 200 horses were unharnessed at camp when the day's drudgery was over, and drank of water hauled many 'miles by team. If ahorse drank six gallons of water at a watering it would take 1000 gallons, or twenty barrels, for each feed. It would take two four-horse teams day and night to supply water only. It took 1200 pounds of grain three times a day for feed, the same-being worth 2y2 cents per pound. At night 2500 pounds of hay disappeared disappear-ed in the mouths of the worried animals. ani-mals. The food for the men would have fed. a regiment of Uncle Samjs soldier's. The chain leading from the wagon to the lead team weighed, in some of the pulls, nearly 2000 pounds.; If each horse utilized fifty pounds of flesh on the journey, there are nearly 2000 pounds' of horse flesh floating on the desert air between be-tween here and De La Mar. Cor- -respondence Tribune. |
