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Show CHALE1ERS 6-30 CLIMBS ENSIGN PEAK ON ITS OWN POWER No 1. Beginning tho cllaib. Notice the short lion bars attached to the rear end of car. These were put In place to prevent car slipping backward on the steeper gTides further np. No. 2. Going over the hogback. Here it was not only necessary to nse the iron bars to prevent the car l'roin slipping, but ropos were attached to the car to prevent it from toppling over sideways down the mountain. 3vo. 3. Over the hogback. A stop for a rest before making the final dash for the top. No. 4. Topping the crest of tie summit. Notice No-tice the apex of rocks in the rear over which the car traveled. To the left is shown the Hot Spring's lake and the road to Ogden. To the right, the deep valley up which the climb was made. No. 5. The top at the foot of the fiagpole, showing the newspaper men, photographers and employees of the C. A. Quigley company who accompanied the car on the trip. This is considered the most remarkable feat ever attempted and completed by a car in the state of Utah. . ! , p Charles A. Quigley Sends a Car to the Top of Historic Mountain; Moving Pictures of the ; Feat Are Taken. IN these days of strong competitive automobile selling, great claims are made for cars by rival manufacturers manufactur-ers and dealers. Sometimes these claims can be substantiated by actual performance, but, often cars will not live up to the salesman's promises when put up against actual tests. The power or a car is always a great talking point, because every car owner realizes that there are certain times when cars are called upon to exert every ounce of power to overcome obstacles ob-stacles in the road. In order to prove to the public that t the Chalmers 6-30 has a power plant I under its own hood that can practically : do anything where power is concerned, C. A. Quigley, local distributer of the , Chalmers, decided to put a Chalmers on the top of Ensign peak. Ensign peak was selected because it is a well-known well-known point of vantage practically within the city itself. Thousands of persons have climbed its precipitous 1 sides, and many attempts have been j made to climb "it with an automobile. ! Mr. Quigley rightfully figured that if I he could place a Chalmers on top it ! would attract attention, not only from j the fact it could be seen from all over tho city, but that thousands would I realize that the car had really per- formed a wonderful feat. Mr. Junk Drives Car. So when Fred Junk, traveling demonstrator demon-strator of the Chalmers company, reached Salt Lake last week, Mr. Quigley Quig-ley told him of his plans, and practically prac-tically put the test up to Mr. Junk. Mr. Junk, who has performed many difficult tasks with the Chalmera car, investigated tho proposition and at once announced it could be done with a Chalmers car. The rest of the teat is pretty well known by this time all over the i'ntermountain country, and for the past week has been tho subject of con-1 con-1 siderable discuBsion in automobile cir-j cir-j clcs. Every night the glaring headlights , have flashed down upon the city, and : during the davtime the 6iin. glistening on the Chalmers's polished sides, showed plainly the position of the car. Moving Pictures Taken. Realizing that there would be more or less comment on the feat aB soon :u it became known the task had been accomplished. ac-complished. Mr. Quigley. with his tibial thoroughness, decided to have moving pictures taken of the car going up the .peak. Thia was done by the Dejieret Film company, and showed iu detail the work of the Chalmers as it slowly picked i its way up the mountainside, straddled the apex of the hogback and finally , literally bucked itself up the final pitch to the top. The pictures were remark- i ably clear and show plenty of action. Arrangements were made yesterday ! to have these photos shown in the local 1 picture houses. They will be on exhibition exhibi-tion at the American today and tomorrow, tomor-row, at the Rex on Tuesday'and Wednesday Wednes-day and at the Liberty on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "They were exhibited ex-hibited in private vesterday to a number num-ber of prominent business men of the city, together with newspaper men, and all pronounced them a success and advised ad-vised M. Quigley to give them to the public through the medium of the local i theaters. As soon as they are shown j here they will be taken to the smaller i towns and exhibited and then sent east I to tho Chalmera factory, where they j will be shown on various routes 1 throughout the country. It is expected J by these means that, in addition to proving by movies what a Chalmers can do when put to the test, the pic- , tures will draw attention to Salt Lake ! City, especially as a splendid panorama j of the city is" shown. Makes. Trip on Own Power. Mr. Quigley has been asked several . times if any outside ageuc' besides tho power of the car was used in putting put-ting the car in place. This question comes naturally from any person who' ; has ever gone to the top of Ensign peak, i The feat would Beem impossible of ac- j complishment to the average person, I and when an expression of doubt is shown it is no moro than could be expected. ex-pected. The fact remains, however, that nothing in the shape of a block i and tackle, horses or other power, out-, side the power of the Chalmers engine, j transmitted in the regular manner to j the rear wheels, was used in the feat. Nor wns the car if geared" down to make the climb. It was a regular stock model, the car used daily in demonstrating demon-strating to prospective Chalmers buyers. Car Tied in Place. It was found necessary to tie the ear in place on several occasions to keep ir from rolling down the mountainside, which would have meant sure death Tn Mr. Junk, the driver, as well as utter demolisbment of the car itself. These ropes were not attached In any manner to help pull the car np the mountain, but merely to iteady it. Ropes were also tied around the rear tires and used instead of tire chains to give greater traction. It was found that chains would not cut deeply enough in the mountainsides to give traction, so inch ropes were used instead. About 100 feet of this inch rope was torn to Bhreds in doing its work. The car was placed in position last Tuesday, and remained until yesterday, when it was taken down again and driven to the C. A. Ouigley garage. It will be placed on exhibition this week for the Denefit of those who wish to examine it. Mr. Quigley Rides Down. The feat of taking the car down was out of the ordinary, and Mr. Quigley made the trip as a passenger with Mr. Junk. The car was placed in reverse and a heavy rope was fastened to the flagpole on top of Ensign peak. The rope was let out foot by foot, and the car slid down the ' steep mountainside until a grade was reached where the car could be let down with its own brakes. On the steeper parts of the mountain the car would have dropped of its own weight if a heavy rope had not held it in place, but the Chalmers was at last gotten down to where the road stops without accident of any kind. Mr. Junk declares it was the most hazardous trip he had ever taken in an automobile, although he has spent years in traveling around the country, doing the "impossible" with Chalmers cars. He says that he hopes the next time he comes to Salt Lake Mr. Quigley will put another "stunt" up to him to do and he will again make good. |