Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 19 | Snow Blocks Roads to Tax Autoists

I ITO SNOW BLOCKS ROADS TO TAX I Ty The Tel Telegrams Telegram's T i al l Nees S nc TIt DE DENVER VEr Jan C. C The Tho Tho boy who made mud puddles in the tho road in order to stall automobiles so ho he could get set the tho Job of or hauling the cars out nas nothing on CM tain farmers along the thc road between Denver and Colorado Springs If It the statements of ot Nelson Franklin a wIdely known Cripple Creek mining man manare aro are true Mr Franklin declares farmers armen along this highway aro shoveling snow mow from the sides of ot the tho road and piling It high Inthe in inthe inthe the center for tor the deliberate purpose of or stalling motor cars These farmers he says stand stant read ready with teams of ot othOl hOl horses es which they hire to motorists to pull pUlI their cars ear out Mr Franklin came over o the tho Denver Colorado Springs road from Cripple Crock Creek yesterday and says s 's ho encountered the freshly piled plied up snow near the town of or Greenland In In ha Douglas county He Hc labored J a long IonS while and got his car through to pre pre- the w waiting lUng farmers from having the satisfaction of or gouging InS him