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Show DR. MACFARLANE FINDS BOULDER TRIP STRENUOUS Journey of I 70 Miles Over Mountain Moun-tain Summits in Snow and Bad Roads Has No Charms. We are wont to tell of the hardships and hitter experiences of early days, when there were no automobiles or jrood roads, and when doctors and others oth-ers whose business or professions necessitated nec-essitated a good deal of travel, certainly cer-tainly led the strenuous life. And it is by no means the purpose of this article arti-cle to depreciate the heroic work of these pioneer trail-blazers. Rut occasionally it falls to the lot of the modern doctor practicing in a country such as this, away from pavements pave-ments and railroad tracks, to take a jaunt that if little less strenuous and perilous than some of those which the! early settlers tell about. Dr. Maefarlane of this place had one of these unenviable experiences last week when he was called over to Roulder, Garfield county, by telephone ' to treat Mr. Claude Haws, who was I suffering with n second nttack of typhoid ty-phoid fi'ver. It is 170 miles from Ce-1 dar City to Boulder, and the roads for' the most part are not what you could ( exactly call boulevards. The trail 1 leads over a mountain summit 9000 ft. above sea level where the snow was three feet deep. It was there that Dr. Macfarlanc was unable to keep his car on the tracks and it slid down into a huge snow drift. It required several hours of the most strenuous exertion to dig it out and get it reinstated on the road. The latter portion of the journey was over roads entirely beyond the power of any automobile to negotiate j and was made with an old-fashioned ; buckhoard and horses. According to! the Doctor's testimony, the name is ' very fitting the experience he passed . through, as clinging on for dear life, he was bumped up one after another of the young precipices which formed 1 the trail dignified by the name of road. The weather was bitter cold and there was no lack of excitement during the entire trip. He found Mr. Haws in a very ties-! perate condition, reduced to a veritable skeleton, and slowly starving to death 1 on a ration of only .'16 spoons of milk per day. The Doctor readjusted the! diet, left suitable medicine and from, subsequent tidings the patient is doing do-ing as well as could be expected, but1 is too weak to be moved to his home in Escalante or other more accessible spot. Dr. Macfarlanc was accompanied on , the trip by R. H. Palmer, and but for his aid the experience might have had a tragic ending. Dr. Macfarlanc returned last Friday, Fri-day, with his appetite for adventure and rigorous exercise fully satisfied, and will not feel slighted if he is not Mimmoned to Boulder again this winter. |