Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 22 | Gets his Thrills in a Hurry; Trapper Makes up Lost Time

Gets His Thrills in a Hurry; Trapper Makes Up Lost Time OST of the ordinary mortals T on this sphere go along with the times, experiencing the jLVA riLW thrills as they come, turning innovations into commonplaces com-monplaces almost every day. There is one Idtihoan who caught i.p with the modern current all in one epoch-making epoch-making jump the other day. j That was P. L. Falconbery of I oon Creek, Idaho. For nearly three, decades .!eonbery has led the Y:i? of the wilderness far from the phy-n-j cai contact with the march of ev.-rus, I keeping . abreast through his readins. In ail these twtnty-ninu years he has h tinted and trapped in the region u trout his ranch, which is sixteen miles on a pack trail from even ihe -nearest: wagon road- And this wagon roa d i t 1 20 rr. i i e fro i n the nearest I trail o: the railroad. I It took a recent trip to Salt Lake I to give Mr. EaVonni.-ry eAp-ri'-ri's I which to most o us are merely toe normal events of a cominonphic city iw'e. F?"iTik J. Gu;-tin, a lawy, r of Salt Lake, has ii'iutcl with Fab-or.-bery for several ye.trs. and this hummer hum-mer persuad'-d his guide and companion com-panion to come to the city to see wha.t was going on. First, there were the street cars, w h i c h the trapper had n e e ridden on. The electric tram delighte : him with its oonvenience and smooth riding o':Klit ies. But the stri-et car w.is only a primitive prim-itive mode of tra -ij-ncna' :or. compared with a trp whb'h Mr. Gu'-thi arranged ar-ranged for the hunt-r in oitu o" the ail plan-- of the Wesi.'-rn Air'T.-i ft orcoratlon. Yr-s. Fa !'-on cry rod on a eomir.ori, ordinary s'r.-et car, ani in a fast flying airplane, both for the first timt. both within a few days. And Fai'Or.ber;.- caught up wi'h the world. Ti"-n ! wen ha r k to h's work at ranching and t raj. ping f..r tiie govf-rnna-n', rf,;i .y f"r anoth- r period in the mountains. wh-re neither street oars, nor ici'-plionc-, nor airplane:-1 us yet have appeared.