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Show ST. GEORGE TRIP IS IDE IN GOOD TIME Botterlll and Shlpler Report Fast Schedule in Auto Journey to Utah's Dixie. With Frank Botterlll at the wheel and Harry Shlpler as his congenial side-kick, the do luxe Hudson Super-six, Super-six, which shook tho dust of Salt Lake at tho wee sma' hour of 4:50 yesterday morning, arrived without a scratch in St George at 4:33 In the afternoon, making one of the most enviable records rec-ords yet heard of on the automobile rialto in Utah. Tho odometer registered 331.6 miles. Tho time was 11 hours and 43 minutes. One stretch of 226 miles was passed over without a single stop. Only one stop was made during tho entire trip, and that was for tbo purposo of stocking stock-ing up with gasoline,, of which twenty-three twenty-three gallons were used for the whole journey. Mr. Shlpler telephoned in last night that tho roads woro good and the'party encountered a few intermittent rains, wh(ch did not Impede progress to any considerable extent. Following is a table showing the towns passed and tho times at which they wore reached: Left Salt Lake City, 4:50 a, m.; Provo, 43.8 miles, 6 a. m.; Nephi, 89.1 miles, 7:33 a, m.; Fillmore, 153,7 miles, 9:36 am.; Beaver 214.8niilel3, 11:59 a. m.; Cedar City, 570.4 miles, 2:27 p. m.; arrived St. George, 326.6 miles, 4:33 p. m. |