Show TOURISTS CARRY ONLY WHAT CANNOT BE SPARED Pr Practice of oJ Overloading g Cars Causes Much of Travelers Travelers Travelers' Travelers Travelers' Travel Travel- ers' ers Troubles r S Spring auto tours are ale in tho plan plan- ii ning I n g. g Already the dealer ier have had orders order tn to get gel a number of 01 eari cars Trendy r for COl Interstate trIps A as soon oon 38 as the tho snow Is off ott th the tho ground and ti the roads are open opan sufficiently t of oC without th the maximum of oC Incon nien ni- ni en ces This year ear It Is Js the purpose c of or the life Automobile Club of oC Utan to give Ic auto 0 owners all through gh toe the st state lt and hil 1 par par- those from frum other tourIng touring touring tour tour- ing Ut Utah h all the tho pointers possible on the time equipment necessary to to c carry rr on cars care making tho the interstate runs Heretofore Here Her th CA cars that thAl have hao come come conie Into th lie j state and c even those that have been Deen used lined extensively cl the con- con Jt s of oC tile the states state's o own boundaries hwe as a rule been too heavily equipped for sate safe and comfortable 1 tou touring ri n g. g The rho Utah Auto Trades a association is 18 taking an interest In Iii tho the m matter tt r. r and mu andIn andIn In reviewing rc the subject Saturday President Frank Botterill of oC the noso- noso elation had hid this ibis to lo SIl say Probably one of or the hl biggest troubles that the transcontinental tourist t has hns hasIs hasis is that he lie loads ills his car with a n great many hundred pounds of unnecessary Weight olg-ht olg A tourist Ih Iii contemplating a trip across the country no matter whether hother Jie li starts from th the Atlantic or the tile Pacific coa coast t Is told of ot the ter terrible conditions o of the roads throughout through through- Utah and anu and nd ou out Nevada c Wyoming HID u II HIM tiling U l S IU lV un Is IR to bu buy from to 1000 pounds of ot junk to put pui on his car that he lie will never ne us use use- I This past summer we had In our garage over lJ a 1 hundred cars owned b by these tourists t at different times tImIs and 1 made maue a careful investigation In of ot the unnecessary equipment that the they car car- ried In nine cases out opt of tE ten n the weight ot or th tho thu unnecessary equipment was equal to the total w weight of oC th the Ja passenger l f carried An average tour- tour lilt nig car cat is is designed lo to carr carry a given hJ 10 load ti of or passengers and when to thi wl weight ht Is added aude an equal amount of ot equipment It Is s clearly dearly to be Keen Fen that tha t the ear ar is practically per cent over over- loaded With this extra weight as soon goon as LIS tile ear car al' al is put up against th thin the w washouts and anu r Hers of our We Heln country countr the time tourist commences to have havo an cit unusual amount of at trouble Hi springs frame et etc Then the trouble is lo to western road 1031 conditions when If Jf tile the tourist would woul equip his hiscar his hiscar car practically the tue same ame as he lie does I when in us ug around the iho city an and l average average aver n a age e country rods roads he lie would ha have n no nomore more trouble In crossing crossing- Wyoming II Utah an and Nevada da than ho he in his own state r i Pers I have driven en 11 En across tho the three slates states mentioned several tines I In different models o of car cars and anti find I from actual experience that Hiat It is absolutely absolutely I unnecessary to lo load oad the car down with several eral hun hundred r po pounds Of lot I planks twenty or thirty extra gallOns l s of ot gasoline or oi five lIve or ten gallons of ot i lubricating oil extra springs and anu parts I of oC that des description I believe e that al man who drives his car cal with average erase care are front from rom New Xe York tork City to San Francisco Fran Fran- FrancIco Fran Fran- cisco cIco will find that the following list will be all 11 the thc equipment that Is necessary rice rice- essary to take lake The Tho set o of tools with which the ti car carIs caris carIs is equipped Two extra casings Six Inner tubes One set et of or tire tir chains hains Fifty feet t inch 3 inch manill a rope tEP Two light ht blocks for 01 rigging block and tackle One gallon ij-gallon desert lesert wa water ha bag Thero Thera Is no place on oh the thio transcontinental route through Wyoming Wj omin l th than an and 1 eoa Nevada that thai It ll Is i inc nc necessary to carr carry extra tra gasoline lI oUne us IS It can be bp ob obtaIned aln d at t least er e every miles There aro are few fc places s but hut what all the water necessary can be he obtained of all an I Ican standard makes can camu be bl secured in al almost almost at- at most c every town ton The tourist Is ts less I likely h to have punctures s and tire bl ble than the man who uses s his hIt car ar about the cil city Almost every small sOlan town ri I the nest at the thc present nl time lime Is equipped I with a a garage c and arid repair s s' s sip ip Jp In I towns lowns where there there Is fa no rc auto auto- uto- uto i mobile c establishment a n bla bla k ml h who Is generally a aver very goo good 1 mechanic can an In In lii the larger cities en route I agencies ag for Cor nil the standard makes of oC cars and tires are to be found Cound an and t the 1 n average car icar agency In iii the west cst Is s gen gen- tetter f equipped with extra parts than the car car agencies in the east east- Th se agents agent Jf find It necessary to carry a larger larer stock stoel a o of parts as the they are ale so NO CA tar far from the manufacturer and In or order to toI I give quick s service a great d deal al of th their lr J c capital ha has to be tied up pp in a supply of oC extra parts I do not Lell Lelle believe e that tha t th the three thrE states stales that the th eastern tourist t dreads so much ate are as as' as hard to lo J to toas as either Illinois or 01 Iowa Iowan in wet wen ther th- th er that if thie actual conditions conditions condi condl lions could be bc put up to the motor car ar owners owners owners' of ot both the eastern castern and western coasts that there would be fully 50 60 per PU percent cent more tourists conic come through h o our Jr state In 1913 than there was In II 1912 Th The Jr first t time r I drOve Wyo o mInI ming was In 1907 and the last time in inA A August of I There has been er verj- verj little work orl done on th the J roads of ot Wyoming during durIn- these se see five e years years' People People Peo Pen pie are coming coining through h that thiat Rt state tc at atthe atthe atthe the present time without nn any trouble and five years ears ago if a a. trip through Wyoming h haul had ill been hEen suggested st d they would have thrown up tip their hands In Inh h horror It Is 15 merch a cars cartS de better and amid the fact that a i great man ninny many motor cars vars ar are coming through and that thai tourists are getting more con confidence l and antI it Is only a question question ques ques- tion of oC the rt p. people ople in In iii tho the west cst proving to tourists that thal conditions are not n near near- arI ar I Ij as bad aC as painted d to make the tourist tour tout let 1st b business ss Increase OO per cent ent |