Show Tom Mix Shows He Is Some Lumber Handler In making malting the Fox production The Texan in the mountains back of Prescott Prescott Prescott Pres- Pres cott Ariz at Thumb Butte one of the most spots in itt that part of the country countr the Tom Mix 1 company did some pioneering in the way of or getting lumber to location There was a shack to be built high up on the butte that butte that precipitous crag that rises several feet with steep ascents Tom Mix himself superIntended superintended super- super Intended the tile building of this set and none displayed greater agility and sure- sure II I Lumber for the shack was hauled a distance of eleven miles to the foot toot of the Butte by team From that point I Ithe the eighteen men detailed to this job made a road as ds s str straight ight as possible one mile in len length h to the top Then they loaded the lumber on a bobsled to which was attached a foot GOO rope The rope ran through a pulley attached ahead as they progressed to crags or 01 posts driven Into the rock A team of horses hitched to the other end of the rope then pulled up the bobsled from point to point When they got the material to the top they had to stand ou tiptoe and cling to crags to build the shack and I when it il was finished had to cable it to the rocks lest the wind hurl it to the I valley below It took three days and anda andI a a. half to complete this tills shack but it was I just where Tom Torn Mix Mla wanted It |