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Show I LONG TRIP ON WHEEL. Ogden Man Has Traveled Over 20,000 Miles on Bike. A. M. Blanchard. loaned in literary -ircles "Bard of the Wasatch." a poet, . writer, thinker, doctor, traveler and all-round, all-round, lollv good fellow, pushed his way into Mount Pleasant, this weok astride a twenty-year-old bicycle, says the Mount Pleasant Pvruniid, and spent a few hours with friends here with whom ho made acquaintance over n score of years ago. In tho rolo of traveler Mr. Blanchard probablv has no equal In the world. All jf his trips aro mado on a bicycle, and in that manner lie has been on thu go for tver ten vears, having made in that tlmr twelve tours, two of which have hoeu entirely across this continent. Computing Com-puting distances from googniphlcal rneus- . uromcnis. ho has traveled over 20.00D . miles on these tours. lie is now using lis second wheel, the one used in the ocglnnlr.g having been presented long ago to the Doseiet museum in Salt T-ake, .vhere it, with relics of his travels, is n I ways an object of Interest. Huh Iravcln are made for observation and Ipfnnna-tion. Ipfnnna-tion. :fs he Is a literary man of consid-prable consid-prable ability and moio or less renown. Ills home is In Ogden. and he is now enrou tc to Mexico, where he expects to winter. Sheep on Forest Reserves. The time of admitting sheep on the Uintah forest reserve, according to the Wasatch Wave, lias been changed from . July 1 to July 10 and will bo allowed to remain ten davs later In the fall, making mak-ing the time of leaving the reserve OcL 0 instead of the J 0th. This chango has been made necessary on account of the lateness of the season this year. Tho wnoie country In the higher altitudes of the reserve Is yet white with snow. |
