Show Joop Negotiates Shafer Trail Road Report of a trip made In a leep eel down the ed ef Shafer Trail road Tuesday the day dav of off 1 f r seven lIeven r men Ien en hard td Il n a en and rode from frOom rTh Nerk down the Shafer Trill rood road around I Dead Horse e a ari d over J Tank Tink The men Nick k ta k Turner Bud Rud AI Mr Dick ami 1 I Lawrence wr loft loab at about 7 i. i 1 t rl n he the litters litter's jeep started their historic lourney And nd if thinks this was not a historic journey lourney let them make the same Mme trip About half VI V av down clown tb tl- th rim the ran Into Nate Knight ht and Norm Hettman who were putting the finishing touches on some switchbacks switchbacks' Norm decided he hl would like to go along so the momentous trek got under way The scenery was ably beautiful and the day was cool and crisp Everything went swell until just below Dead Horse point Seems as if there was a small obstacle to surmount surmount sur mount before continuing the trip About one thousand tons of boulder on a narrow point With Norm blasting and Nick running the bulldozer and with the rest of the party shoving and grunting a Jeep trail trall was made about six feet wide and a thousand feet down one step over Along about that time everybody got hungry and had their dinner After Alter the meal the boys boya were off again The road from that point on was one gentle bumpy swell after another and at about the destination was reached Now all that had to be t e done was climb half way back up the I ell cliffs Us again which was accomplished accomplished ac but not without a alot alot a alot lot of huffing and puffing by some of the party Then came the dramatic point of the Journey Jour ney the popping and pinging of the geiger counters With rapt expressions the boys went to work and watching them you wonder vonder as as pear rn might have and ana say W nat manner of Men are These These uranium uran lum ium miners surely they must come from h hardy stock and like their pappies before them these men sublime In their faith In themselves and d In the country country- go stolidly forward carve out their roads roads- do the impossible and come up grin grinS ning After about an hour of this mountaIn goat goat work the boys decided to start back planning to reach the main highway before be before fore dark The trip back was cold but uneventful compared ed to what had gone before Most uranium miners say that I you have to be crazy to be a good miner We disagree with this theory We think It takes brains and backbone and plenty plen ty o f both The country can canwell canwell canwell well be proud of this breed of men |