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Show I MOTOR MOTIONS Two record trips were made to Brighton early In the week, the first by B. S. Ferry and party, In a Peerless, and the second by Lear Ititer, in his Pope-Hartford. The running timo in each case was two hours, and in view or the fact that the roads for a few miles this side of Brighton wore as slippery as a banana peel on account of the recent rains there, and that no chains were used on the wheels, the steep grades were negotiated ne-gotiated in splendid time. There has been considerable discussion during dur-ing the past fortnight regarding the advisability of all automobiles keeping out of Cottonwood Canyon. We do not take the view that this would be a good thing, though it will be difficult to discriminate dis-criminate if some cars are kept out and others are not. There are a good many drivers who know they have no business to try to take their cars up the steep canyon grades, and there are a good many more who, no matter how good a car they may be driving, have no business in the canyon unless they are experts. Most of the trouble with automobiles in Cottonwood has come because be-cause the men at the wheel have depended on their brakes entirely in coming down the canyon. can-yon. The wise driver does not do that, but throws on the low, and in that way the chances for accident, ac-cident, if a level-headed man is driving, are reduced re-duced to a minimum. Unquestionably there is more or less danger at The Stairs, on the grade above the Maxwell, and in the series of sharp, steep hills just before Brighton is reached, but the right cars with the right men handling them J should experience no trouble or make any trou-l trou-l ble for others. wt vt One hundred miles in two hours four minutes min-utes and eight seconds is one of the fastest records rec-ords of the year in the west, and local ear owners own-ers have evidenced a good deal of interest during the week in the other results just published of the recent hundred-mile road race at Portland, Oregon. Ore-gon. The Studebaker car went the course in the time given above. i&v t The Automobile Club is perfecting plans as rapidly as possible for a systematic campaign to interest local authorities throughout this section of the state In particular this winter in the good roads movement, A half-dozen drivers and car owners want another hill-climbing contest held' before the weather prevents, and it has been hinted that the club would not be averse to arranging ar-ranging a meet, providing some scheme could be devised whereby the treasurer of the club might have a little more to do after the event than he has at present. t t t The Studebaker people are placing a number of their "30's" in and about town. The car Is of the Model H stock type, that recently finished with a perfect score in the 24 hours' ondurauce contest at San Leandro, California, under the auspices of the San Francisco Automobile Club. J The car was the only one of those entered that ran the entire twenty-four hours without stopping stop-ping its motor. & & & A. O. Jacobson and family are at home after several weeks at Wasatch. They came down the first of the week in the Jacobson Jackson. Hal Lamb's Stearns will be on the street within the next few days. The final repairs are now being put on the car, and the engine repairs tested out. Among the Ogden Canyon parties Sunday, Dr. Critchlow made a fast run in his Jackson. L. A. Mehse made the same trip early in the J week. |