Show CHAS KELLI IN WRITES RITES BOOK ON EMIGRANT ROUTE 8 desart TRAILS A IT drives over routes collects facts mikes M ikes of all old timers ites with ills own oun photographs aplis and then atutes ills binding Ms OP OF EARLY historical VALUE enthusiasm supplies the steam pressure tor for many a human machine and noone carries a higher pressure per inch thin kelly hia his enthusiasm was such that it put him at the wheel to traverse ev ery practically of utah he has visited bryce zion the grand canyon parts of arizona much of new mexico gone up to the colum iba river highway but the des erts of utah and nevada have a lure tor for him that Is insatiable for instance enthusiasm Enthus iam lam put him at the wheel while he drove and perched his horther borther on top the auto for see ing poor inside where kelly was but better petter on top and this brother to direct kely to follow A salt desert trail wafted a foot now the left one then the right or caution sig nal by fluttering both if the trail ahead was so dim as to be doubtful then coming hack back then were not content with the roundabout journ ney but must needs take a short cut across the gret salt lake des art when so soft under the wheels was the goo beneath that to have stopped they would never have got ten out and they were forced to grave drive a new highly powered auto lin in low gear for fifteen miles feeling the sink behind them as they just barely kept on and the comforting thought that it they went down a fresher lot of bones would mark the desert than the weathered ones they saw as they followed another trail acores the salt desere so are books built and always by a man not among the things he writes about for ance ante viscount bryce brit isher wrote best on american dem james fox jr tar far from he be ing a virgina cracker wrote best ot of those very people owen wister an eastern friend of T R of the big stick wrote the first best seller THE VIRGINIAN on wyoming end he almost astringer there therel and of the popular boks zane ane grey a phil adelph lan weaves romances of ari arl zona and new mexico J cecil al ter gives us the final word on jim Brid bridger gere and yet I 1 lived within forty five miles of fort brid bridger er thirty years and know nothing I 1 so kelley as we may say only re bently out west gets the lure of desert follows its dim and long tor for gotten trails in its salt crust finds it romantic and has been over the route talked to more old timers and studied more other sources ot of inal information 1 I will hazard than any other man in utah he ile Is qualified for the task there la is no profit air sir where is no pleasure taken it was pleas arable tor for kelley relley for never a man had more tun fun in his hobby now I 1 hope it will prove profitable the foreword of kelly s book says A history of the hastings cutoff and other emigrant route which crossed the great salt desert in utah seeking a shorter road to cal the story of emigration through utah before the mormon settlement some rare items of utah history it may be bought from the shepard book company S state st salt lake city pricer 3 |