Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-11 | Page 37 | Winter Trail is Open to Southland

WINTER TRAIL IS OPEN TO SOUTHLAND Local N Makes Jakes Lone Hand Expedition in Stephens Salient Six Sig Hunters and motor fans of or Salt Lake will bo be Interested in an nn account of or a trip made mado b by A. A J. J Crosier Crosler of or this city who has ha just completed a lono lone hand expedition tho starting point of which was waa Salt Lake City and tho the finish Los Angeles According to Sales Manager Dean of ot the Motor Motor Motor Mo Mo- tor company compan local loc distributor of oC the Stephens car Mr Ir Crosier Crosler left Salt Lake City In 1 a l new Stephens car which ho he had Just taken from the tho Motor company's sales floors tho the speedometer showing two miles with a aI 1200 1300 I OO pound load of or apparatus para- para himself and left lert for tor points south via in the Arrowhead trail Old King Winter and antl his frosty had hod t the e northern stretches of oC the trail well In hand at this time limo It wan waa necessary to buck tho time snow now and andice andIce andice ice and all tho things that go 0 with winter winter winter win win- ter touring between Salt Lake CIl City and andSt St St. George Georgc Upon arriving at St. St George Geors-c while there thero was ns still snow tho the going was not nearl nearly as ns severe ero as inthe in tho the northern part of ot the state from the weather t standpoint although heavy travel tra during the pa past paRt t three months has cut up the road between this thin eft city and Las Vegas Nov Nev e The main difficulty with the trail between those these two towns lies In high centers On the Nevada c end of ot this stretch of or road there has lias been no wet weather cather so instead of ot en encountering encountering encountering en- en countering mud the tho traveler tra has haa to fight deep ruts filled with sand and dust The Tho highway officials in this section report that after the tho first t storm thoro there will bo be a great Improvement C. C II 11 a assistant state on h ln Ar of ot Utah Uh and nd also consulting engineer i ifor for tho the A Arrowhead Trails ns association states staten that during the time past ast ninety days clays moro than twenty cars per r day have e been passing ov oVer r this rond road but with the lie coming comins- of ot tho lie first winter ruins rains ac active ac- ac tivo tive work worle will win bo be at once started to toward toward to- to ward ard eliminating the present condition as ns found Cound here hero After Arter ln leaving St. St George Mr Ir drove e his hla Stephens to on the banks of tho the Virgin river r where he lie pitched camp and dropped tho Ito Joys jOR of ot touring for tor that of ot hunting Ho Ito reports ducks Jucks veT very plentiful together with a n fair fLir sprinkling ln of ot geese gecse He lie encountered no difficulty In III getting limit It bags of ducks and cr very little trouble In getting g tho the geese limit After Arter Artera a throe three days days' stop at tit t this point he hot got under wa way was and started for tor Needles Along AJon- the road between on and St. St Thomas and in fact almost to toLas Las Vegas he Imo says sars the tho quail are running running run run- ning strong Mr tr Crosier says saya that at nt Noodles he found large largo numbers of or ducks plenty of quail Juall but only a cr very few fora geese In Iii summing up UI tho the log of ot the trip It might be suid that as far Car as hunting was concerned tho the expedition was wat n n. decided success s and again as far tar as time the Stephens performance was WI concerned that also was Wl a splendid success as upon arriving u nt fit Los Angola tho the speedometer showed 1300 miles oven O making nn an actual an-actual actual of ot of or 1 1298 S miles traveled traveled trav trav- cl d In a new brand car over o and through sonic Homo of ot tho the most moat severe going that can be found In the tho southwest at nl this time The Tho Stephens Is now thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- broken in and came cumo out of or tho the trip holler bolter mechanically than it wont Into tho the tour