Show DRIVER fORCES HIS nis AUTO TO TOh h ALTITUDE RECORD CORD Jd if d Roads Roads to a Point 1000 10 00 Feet Above the Sea Sear r Ar Are Followed into the altitude of ot the Sierra rid de d a mountains mountain than an automobile M fiver ver gone b before foro Ralph Hamlin of Angeles recently pushed the nose 11 hi famous lAmous Franklin racing car 10 10 fut feet up into int the air bit r. r Hamlin with a party of ot friends friend wj t a 11 in tn t the e Sierras on a camping in ft e thero there he inquired from the e vu what irae the highest point paint i in lie mountains a a. motor car h hd d ever everne everone one ne De and learned that one machine had hadt t M u far as ae a c certain mine This in int had marked the extreme t limit T. T Hamlins Hamlin's car that had scorched the burning sands of ot the Im- Im rl rial l valley feet below tho the oceans ocean's was WM cent to beat this altitude ord He reached the mine without V 1 encountered any difficulties and let to go on farther But there appeared no TV way t to go The thick underbrush and immense d boulders blocked his way was Ob Ob- Ob taming the leni services service of a guide guide de the boulders were rolled out of the Way war and anda a rough trail Was cut along which whit the car went When the Franklin had reached feet above 1 sea sea- sealevel 0 level Mr Hamlin was satisfied This Thia altitude stunt of Mr Hamlin is is claimed to bo the highest point a motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car over ever reAch reached d in California Engineer Engi neer floor McClure of the California state lute hi highway staff says that the road Ham Ham- HamIm Im I'm took is the highest highut in th the state but Hamlin went farther than the road and drove his hia ear car over loose 1 rocks and snow now to a point feet higher than the tho end of ot the road where no vehicle had ever been boen before Mr rr Hamlin r reported ported that the view alone at the hi high h point he ho reached was i worth the wont work of ot chopping out the tho trail Ho looked down into to the tha headwaters headwaters head head- waters of the Kings King's river Owens river and the streams that fend feed he the Yosemite and could see C the Iron mountain and the sharp sharI peaks of ot the Minarets Water boils boil at decrees in the al altitude al of feet This 20 degrees lowering of ot the boiling temperature of the water coupled with the rough trail tran and hard climb through the underbrush makes the trip practically impossible for a A. water cooled car |