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Show BAD WASH FOUND" IN" JOHNSON CANYON;" ENCOUNTERED BY TRIBUNE PATHFINDER " ' . ""' ...... :'- ; : .: . . v-.i -y, . - ..- .J : ' r I , t ' ' , ' , p' , , - - .r -r . " i I i " - " '?4 i ' I 'v ' - . t .s. ' ..-fL - 1 v 1 I ' Trxzzrz i ! J . I S, ,A 1 - . - . """" S Iwni itniMiiin t i.ninriiiiiiiiiiMMiiwiiiiiMi i hiiiiiwiimiiiiiiiiiiiw'i iiTiiii""!!!!! I The Tribune jiathfinder has encountered encoun-tered many bad spots in mapping and logging Utah roads. However, the prize hole of them all was a vash in Johnson canyon found on the recent trip to the lirand canyon which would stop nnv car. I The llhotO sllOWC the Tl-ibnno Plidnl.,v Six 3U in "over the rear hubs." Storms of the day before had filled up the wash with quicksand and water and the pathfinder path-finder "hit it first." because it was leading the other eight cars. The front wheels went through aud then tho bottom bot-tom of the wash dropped out from under un-der the rear of the car and left the car suspended in the middle on the sand hank. Beth rear wheels were free to spin when the power was applied and the car was helpless, as far as its own power was concerned. Twenty husky men on a three-quarter-tnch rope broke the rope trying to get the car far enough forward' to give it traction, but the task was finally accomplished. ac-complished. A brush bridge was 'built over the w-ash to take the other cars over. The lower photo shows 8. T Evans in his big car going into the wash The other cars followed .Mr. Evans and crossed over the brush bridge. |