Show I Mud Snow And Sand i iA A day or two ago the thc writer decided decided de de- de- de to travel over Into the Lake Lak fork valley just for a stroll anc and get to Roosevelt on that route via Talmage Mt Home Altonah I Mt Emmons Bluebell Upalco and Ioka loka The road is just as aj imposing as that list of towns tov-ms every everyone one of which we believe II I has fifty families or more Across the famous Blue Bench we did not have any trouble But Bui snow began to be a more common common common com com- mon companion as we sallied along toward the Purple Bench Talmage Snow five feet deep along the road Hows How's that Bobsleds Bobsleds Bob Bol sleds just running around like in ir days of yore a wagon here anc and there with cars braving the main mair highway Troubles happened so often in that upper country that the list would be too long to print Stuck in snow truck helps us out stuck in the mud a team pulls us out cross cris-cross on the road the rear real of the car lI in two feet of snow snow and the front on the hard trail pressed down are samples Brig Stevenson sold us a pair of tire chains as we broke our old ones and we will ill never forgive forgive forgive for for- give Brig Those chains cut every thing nine Eighty-nine times some fellow asked High center And we had to say yes and not swear From Mountain Home any direction a 80 flying machine is the real way to travel But we learned that its it's not the elevation elevation elevation eleva eleva- tion that makes that snow so deep as we go northward as it is approach to the giant Uintah range Leaving Leavi g Duchesne at a. a m. m early enough for us its we got to Boneta at dark and had no ambition ambition am am- to try that road to Altonah Alton- Alton ah ab although it might be as many say all right But we worked two pretty prett sly tricks At Mountain Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- tain Home after buying some crackers Mrs Stevenson agreed to make some coffee and it increased increased in in- cre creased sed moral fibre Then down at Mt Emmons we just knocked on the front door at Chester Hartman's Hartmans Hartmans Hartman's Hartmans Hartman's Hart- Hart mans man's home to see if the lady of ot the land was in and luck was with us Then went out feet in the corrals where Mr Hartman was watching those new lambs and he sized us up invited us in and the wife gave us some- some warm to drink and something something something some some- thing to eat Felt a little cheap not as bad as we looked but thanked the good Lord as well as husbands wives for their kind kind- ness Down south of Bluebell maybe five miles at 1100 p p. p m m. headlights headlights head headlights lights muddy we just got slowly stuck In the sand Thought it was five miles to a home but after after after af af- ter working until midnight digging digging digging dig dig- ging sand without a shovel a dogs dog's barking indicated a home was not over a half mile So we decided to try again on good na na- na- na ture Awakened M M. C. C Seeley and we heard his wife say Yes you can go and he got the most intelligent horses we ever met That horse knew just what to do If he had hands he would have done it himself So we got out of the sand and towards morning arrived at the old ranch east of Roosevelt to awaken our land of the land That was some trip Mud snow water mud water and then as a climax on that Bluebell Bluebell Bluebell Blue Blue- bell bench just dry sand In ten tenmile tenmile tenmile mile distance and feet feel variation variation variation varia varia- tion in elevation we can show you jack rabbits that have not thought of changing color just justas as white as the three feet of snow they run on and other that are exactly like the landscape all ready for tor spring It cost all the nerve we had all the cash not much and nine- nine tenn subscriptions Have decided ed to have no more subscription campaigns but just make trips In bad road sections at the wr wrong g times and give subscriptions away a aW y for getting pulled out That's cheaper than reducing them and perhaps just as good when nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing equals something Found several several several sev sev- sev- sev eral auto mechanics too Asel Walker at Mountain Home Is a areal areal areal real genius This Uintah Basin has bas more variations than ambition and fully as much scenery as nerve |