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Show IF DEATH COMES ON MIDLAND TRAIL That the Midland Trail in one of great dangers and most difficult to drive over Is the Judgment of a correspondent cor-respondent of Motor World who was with the Indiana automobile part Describing the Colorado part of the road, he says It was In the Berthoud pass that the greatest difficulty with arbura tlon was experienced the elevatiotl being 11,805 feet though none of tho ears failed to make the climb. The ascent is laborious, and. though grandly grand-ly picturesque. Is impracticable for ordlnarv tourists Frequently grades of upwards of 15 per cent were en countered, which, coupled with the altitude, made 'going' very hard The turns, too, were very 6hort and abrupt ab-rupt and often masked by trees and rocks "On the following da, the trail led for the most part over narrow ledges of rock where an error of a few feet In Judging distance meant Instant destruction on the rocks below be-low Slight rain In the afternoon run to Glenwood Springs 104 miles from Hot Sulphur Springs made the roads such as they are, sllpper, and added to the danger." There will be more than one accident acci-dent oer a piece of road so dangerous danger-ous and the men who are laboring to establish that as a transcontinental route are guilty of templing the unwary un-wary traveler to his death |