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Show BENIEIWIllpff DIN LOVED CA1 S Remarkable Automobile Tr& .lAfl Changes Opinion of Former Mj 1 Cow-Puncher. "m 1 SAYS HIS OLD FRIEND 1 THE BRONCO IS HAS-BEeI J Bon HcTwood has just finished al journey which was the trip of hii'l eventful life. M j There is perhaps no mau in the West'Bf who knows more of the deserts, inoun'B lains and plains that he. He has C0Y-MrflN( I orcd tens of thousands of miles on thSfll back of a ca.yuso, over trails nono iit'W an expert would over tackle. Ho lovd'ai a horse, and until this week refused lorn beliovo that anything that moves coul4;'L, possibl' supplant a good horse on thojeMl unimproved deserts or mountain roadtHs(() But he has changed his mind. Bifln ' did not do so willingly, but throaST force of a practical demonstration ttyH the horse's inferiorit- over a iintfHI class automobile. And that automoLL'SWl is the Piorco Arrow. fll Mot an Advertisement. ,nl Now this is not an ndvertiscmontjHf Tt is a recognition of splendod monL; : Tt is the recital of facts that caunotjKjiv be overlooked. 'm' On last Wednesday morning, a wcek!$: ago today, Senator TCcarns' sons zniXL c friends started to California by way otjgf. Deep creek in a Great Pierce ArroTrM1; and a Tourist. They cueountered vorr'w bad roads on tho desert, ouu hnndreaM miles west of Salt Lako City, and wWlttLtf thov found their supply of gasolinj'jBT. failing thov struck out for Oasis oafheS' Salt Lake Route. En route the Tourist mf' completely collapsed. It would not .lav stand the" trip. It fairly "burned np," lW n, as the bovs put it, and was abandoned m'. fifty miles out on the desert. ' Tho part' of six took to tho Pierc :Mis& Arrow and were safely carried to Oasis, L,tj. where the younger boys took tho train, t t for homo. For two days they were , practically without food. They nscdj fan the water supply to cool the Tourist;i in their effort to carr- it through, butt f it' proved its inability to stand a hardf V trip. t A fa! Not hearing from the part', a relief expedition was organized and captained u.. bv Ben Heywood. They left Salt Lake? City at 1 o'clock Sunday morning mr' r one of Tom BotlcrilPs Pierce Arrow t 1 touring cars. Eddio Smith, a tract,; chauffeur, was at tho wheel. Rides in Stalled Car. , j The trip to Grantsvillc was mads' before 0 o'clock. A few minutes woro', spent at Grautsville to prepare for thij long desert trip, and the run was m3d8 :g to Orr's ranch, where Dan Orr wai jgj picked ip to nccompau' them. Fistf Springs was reached at 4 o. m.. and it 1S. was there learned the Reams' parly, W after a vain endeavor to overcome the &r obstacles, had departed for OasisJ. nearly one hundred miles southeast. JSj. Fearing trouble to the boj-s, Heywood g and his partv hastened to cover the: e traik and stopped at Drum at 9 o'clock fl Mondav evening. Seventeen miles out" 6. of Drum thev found the abandoned! f Tourist and towed it into Drum. The'; v, steering gear was out of fix, and it i is funnv to hear Ben tell, how Dan Orri J, rode the disabled Tourist at the end; -J. of a forly-foot rod at a twenty-niile. ? pace The car whippod across the. trail ;ll and back in such a fashion that Orr finally found it impossible to keep his: nerve and his seat. flare Aro Tnt-.arr4-.- J, ,6f At 7:30 o'clock Tuesday morning thjfc-relief thjfc-relief partv left for Oasis, abandoniuk . the Tourist, and reached Oasis at o'clock. A rest was taken until 11:3 and the start made for Salt Lake CityMp Heywood reached here at S o'clockuiTMj the evening, having covered the entirsMyj distance of 395 miles over frightfulWifc roads of muck and sand and sagebrnsWP!1. with twelve hours rest. The EearcsvA'c Pierce Great Arrow made the trip wi:h-Ji' out accident, and is in perfect condi-ci tion. The Botterill car, also a Piercc,-ij sustained only a couple of punctures, ft that were quickly mended, and shoffl,., no signs of bad usage. - di No such trip has ever been made un-ii( dor such circumstances. Tho record "Aji a great testimonial to the powers anJJBtl endurance of the Pierce cars.. Bp's "There is nothing you can't do iHfMwi those cars," said Ben Heywood TusT day night. "I want to say I hnT8u gained and lost something by that tnP;IP: I saw tho automobile in all its gloi3Vli! but I will never have the same rcspcctR. I have long felt for a horse. Thero I nothing to it. The horse is a badc number, so far as desert travel anatig i endurance is concerned.' ' . ": "What do you think of the expert- ,v encc of the boys?" he was asked.. j "Well, when I reflect on the things I U thov encountered and might hayo en- j q I countered, I must pronounco tneir trip !a success." he said enthusiastically. s ti ! . A. |