Show DESERT GREYHOUNDS Everybody has heard of ocean grey greyhounds greyhounds greyhounds hounds the name by which the groat great liners Iners that ply between the principal ports of the United States and foreign nations have become known A like term may be applied to the great auto automobiles mobiles that race at the speed of of the wind over the deserts of or Nevada be between between between tween the different mining camps The automobile according to an authority has advanced the development of the desert mining country in Nevada by b bat at least ton years Through the use of ot the automobile It has become possible possible possible ble to take intending investors into the country and point out to them its pos possibilities possibilities possibilities Recently L M Sullivan and J D Campbell drove an automobile from Ely to Goldfield a distance of miles mUes in Just ten hours There are few tew railroad trains in the western country that schedule such a rate of ot speed And when It Is remembered that the trip included some grades that no rail railroad railroad railroad road train could successfully negotiate the running becomes even more re remarkable remarkable So well recognized is the value of t he the automobile in the desert that regular automobile roads have been constructed Between Manhattan and Tonopah and then on to Goldfield a u total dis distance distance distance tance of eighty miles there is such a road There Is another between Gold Goldfield Goldfield field and Bullfrog eighty miles long These automobile roads are not of the type typo one finds in cities They consist merely of dirt tracks each about five inches wide the roadbed being just the width of an automobile No other vehicles are permitted on these roads which were constructed and are kept in repair by owners of the horseless vehicles It is possible with careful car ful chauffeurs chauffeurs chauffeurs feurs to travel over these automobile roads at high speed with perfect safe safety safety safety ty The writer recently made a trip in one of the bi cars from froni Goldfield to Manhattan Leaving Goldfield at in the evening Manhattan was reached at In the morning This was a total of four hours for the trip But a stop of half an hour at Tonopah should be taken out so that the actual running time was three and hours The return trip was made in better time three hours exactly At times and for short distances the car shot across the desert at the rate of miles an hour Yet the sensation was merely merol one of exhilaration ap at If tr the people in the car were flying There did not seem much possibility of a serious accident If It something had gone suddenly and ana seriously wrong we e might have been pitched out into the soft sand but not badly hurt There are more fine auto automobiles automobiles automobiles mobiles in Goldfield with its In Inhabitants Inhabitants Inhabitants habitants than In Salt Lake with its Goldfield appreciates the auto automobile automobile automobile mobile S |