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Show I Motor Motions Blchard Henry Little and C. D. Haggerty, In-di.ins, In-di.ins, and famous war correspondents, are here waiting for the Buick motor car which left New York a few days ago. They left with it, but took the train when near Cheyenne, and will visit old friends here for a night or two before getting aboard the motor again at Ogden. They expect to make connections .with it during the week. Mr. Little and Mr. Haggerty were alternately wifh the Japanese and Russian forces during the late war, the former for the Chicago News and the latter representing the Associated Press. Three ' drivers started with the pencil pushers, and the party figures on making the trip across the country in three weeks' time. Yuan Shai Kal', viceroy of Chili province, asKed the correspondents to make a long-distance test of the American automobile for possible use in China, nnd as that is one way of spending a vacation, here they are. Several other newspaper men are taking a vacation while they remain in the city. fcC Sam Park has purchased a Tourist car, which will arrive in a few days from Los Angeles. This is the second car of this make to take the eye of a Salt Laker. 1$ The Sharman-Ottinger company has secured the agency of the Pierce for next season. This is one of the best American cars, and from the experiences of those who own the cars here, it should prove a great card during the season of 1907. & t t Henry Crowther is a firm believer in that little lit-tle remark about variety and its relation to the spice of life. First, he owned a Cadillac, the beginning of the summer he purchased a Reo, and his latest acquisition is a "Queen," the first' of these cars to be seen here. It is roomy, graceful, grace-ful, and an easy rider, a new cause for rejoicing ori the part of Hank's favored -friends. & J Tony Jacobson's Winton is giving great service. ser-vice. It is one of the best looking machines in the state, and is another evidence that Mr. Jacobson never does things by halves. & & & In the latest Collier's there is a story on "The Power Wagon," by James E. Homans, who has this to say of a trip in the Utah Desert: Probably no test of the reliability and endurance endur-ance of an American-built passenger automobile has ever been more severe and conclusive than that given by an Iroquois twelve-passenger omnibus omni-bus in passing through the great Utah Desert. This vast stretch of arid land had been traversed only by the "schooners" of pioneers, and by an occasional wagon of smaller size, drawn by more, horses than usual and even then traveling at the leisurely rate of people who have "all the time there is." The wagon trails are in deep sand, strewn with huge boulders, and, in other long stretches, pass through river bottoms black with oozy mud and altogether are as unpromising for traction as could be imagined. Indeed, the impossibility im-possibility of passing some sections In an automobile automo-bile was- confidently asserted by all familiar with the way. Nevertheless, the triumph of American Ameri-can skill was complete. The automobile, carrying carry-ing six passengers, was delayed at no point, save where boulders' protruded to such a height as to bloqk the way, or where the river mud was so deep and greasy as to require "corduroying" with sagebrush, in order to give the wheels sufficient grip to propel the wagon. The great obstacles of the journey were found in loose sand, vary- fll ing from five to nine inches in depth, often on grades as steep as eighteen to twenty-two per cent by actual measurement. Moreover, the iH wagon ruts and frequent rocks so racked, swayed, H and generally abused the machine that only a miracle worker, or the American machinist, could 'H possibly have guaranteed its safety. It survived,'. however, ready for more abuse and hardship, with no heart to burst and no limbs to fracture, after stretch on stretch at five miles an hour and sometimes faster. If ever a motor stage line' runs through these wilds some one will probably. build a real road there, but any future Sheridan "twenty miles away," or farther, may be blissfully ; assured that he can "get through anyway." |