Show Follow Livestock Trails If You'd Test Your Real Covered Cover d Wagon Stock He who would seek seck a true test of his patience perseverance and in in- and who would find out for himself if he is of good old covered wagon agon stock should hould leave lea the broad highways s of or Utah and follow tollow the trail of the sheep or cattle inspector J. J M. M Macfarlane president of the Utah Cattle anti and Horse Growers' Growers association as as- said Friday When a stock Inspector goes out to i look at stock he has hns to go where the I stock are and livestock only trial on the main highways occasionally ly Mr I Macfarlane said Therefore whenever whenever whenever when when- ever he or Tom Redmond the sheep inspector start out they usually go places and see many things I For example Mr Macfarlane arlane sId said Id one on of or our favorite fa bugaboos is isa isa isa a bridge which some stockmen II thew across a stream some years ears ago A After r it was done a meeting was held and it was agreed that this fence wire structure would hold 1 if it wasn't loaded too heavily Every ery time Ume I cr cross ss it looking for some lome livestock livestock live live- stock I wonder Just who is going to tobe tobe tobe be the unfortunate man to overload load the span I wont won't tell just where this Is is because some come sheepherder might think I was maligning his handiwork Sand proves pro to be one of the big big- gest jest obstructions to our travel out in inthe inthe the road no-road country When we get et Into sand there are Just three things to do One is to let most of or the air airout airout airout out of the tires This gives the old automobile padded underpinning not unlike the feet of a camel That means a 1 lot of or hard bard work pumping the tile tires Ures back up though Sometimes we can dig to the bottom bottom bot hot tom torn of the sand and let the wheels get traction of solid earth Other times we have ha to put something such as brush or canvas Camas strips under the wheels and make a 1 sort of corduroy corduroy corduroy cor cor- cor duroy road across the dune At times we follow old wagon trails trans or or trails trails' where some other unlucky un tin- lucky individual had to put his automobile Many times we find it convenient to cut loose from even that vestige of or civilization cl and wind across across' the desert dodging greasewood greasewood grease grease- wood clumps and prairie dog holes The bottoms of w washes or watercourses watercourses water courses ot often n make ideal road beds providing there are no cloudbursts and assuming that we stop ever every now and then to roll the biggest of th the rocks out from the center of the wash But this type of ot travel has its advantages advantages ad ad- vantages the chief one of ot which Is 13 being able to get back on good state and county roads as soon as our business busi bwl ness ncsa on the de desert ert is completed |