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Show THURSDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1959 ' l" Utah County. Utah DAILY HERALD 3 Pa riy iiiohiuS I Don ner F ravel- 6 1 in ' ' 1 ' Flat! Trail On Mode rn- - Day Gas B i Ices Salt-- , 55-mi- once-famo- the I old il a I 1 Jk v y yr k va it ililON THRU S ,rs. California - immigrant Pilot Peak on the A desolate stretch of "roadrito a "fearful long as border the Hastings Cutoff on the Cutoff, across the Great Salt Desert drive"; t Hastings covering "the ipost desolate terwhich has been rain on the face of the United Donner-Ree- d since the '! Party of 1846. will undergo the State'j Added Webb: Dr. "Waterless, test of modern machines in a the sand scheduled next menacing, implacable unique expedition dunesjfjmid-flats- , ' alkali ' sinks, and Monday. ' remainmountains scoriied have g Early that morning, six as ed untouched almost as the two - wheeled vehicles As found them. earliest! explorers s known as will set out a have for result, retained, they over the desert, following the Don-ne- r the stretches of route to Pilot Springs on the a curious to view, as old as any in road pifineer McKellar Ranch at the foot of the the far! west." Pilot Peak range at the The ' road began as a trail in ' line. , October 1845. Kir 'Carson, scout The expedition will be led by foi J0hn Charles Fremont, was Dr. Henry Ji Webb,, professor of sent put from the Cedar MounEnglish at; University of - Utah tains jVyith three companions to prominent member of the Utah search; for water on the promis Stale Historical .Society and keen ing foothills of Pilot Range. He student of history of discovered the cool springs that the Great Salt Desert. issue today from the base of Pilot Another prominent member of Peak to irrigate a portion of the the party will be Ralph Bonham McKpllar ranch, and the Fremont Provo, president of Bonham En- exploratory party rested there 02 terprises, inventors and manufac- fore j trudging westward to Caliturers of the Tote - Gote which, fornia he hopes, will find the going oa Lansford W. Hastings, who had the salt desert easier than did been poking for a short route to thf Donner-Ree- d Party which had Calif oriiia, heard of this trail, and to abandon many of its wagons in with, other explorers trekked back j the mud-flatacrossfj the trail laid out by FreW. T. (Bill) Berry Jr., director mont,' (eventually ending up at of field operations for the com- - Fort; ridger at the time several pany, also will be along, as- will large bands of immigrants were Gary Payne, of Provo and two preparing for the hard march west. riders yet to be chosen. Pratrie schooners of the Donner"If our plans work out', we will -Reed to Party, be able to make our trip try the" route, cut deep furrows in one day," said Mr. Berry, who into the salty mud and sand that already has" made a preliminary stretches over ' many miles of 's test of the prowess on western Utah. the desert. It took the Donners Mr. I Berry says the route is to traverse the same marked clearly since the ruts of many days stretch. the Dinner wheels filled with sand h Dr.. Webb, in an article publish-- . ol a different is plain' e1 June 22, 1958, told of a personal ly visible. 1957 adventure in which an autoStarting place for next Monmobile crossa actually jeep day's :trek will be. the point about ed the Great Salt Desert "for the 17 mifos from Low, Utah, where first time in history." Highways 40 and 50 intecsect the He described the route along old ' immigrant trail. By N. L. CIIRISTENSEN FOR YOUR SHOPPING PLEASURE Q Formidable Trek to Test Machines , Utah-Neva- da le us . ill-fat- nMAn 1 seldom-traverse- d ed ' LI i ifU-im- queer-lookin- ( Tote-Gote- Utah-Neva- pre-Morm- da MEN'S SUITS - TOPCOATS -- - SP0RTCQATS ' 1 4- ft ; on CHECK THESE SAVINGS! 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