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Show BENZINE BUS IN DESERT. The benzine bus has done for the desert what tho steamship did for ocean travel. It has concentrated widely scattered mining centers that were formerly vague and distant from ono another because of the difficulties, hardships nnd perils of frnxel by stngc and burro over tho rugged sand wastes, through bowlder-clogged ravines, and over plnt-tcr-flat dry hjces, from which tho summer sunt seems reflected in shimmering shim-mering wuves of flame and whito heat. What was only a few years ago a day's journey, remarks Harton W. Currie, writing in Harper's Weekly about "the gasoline camel," is now only an hour's skim. Yes, and there are hundreds of miles of automobile au-tomobile speedways. |