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Show Til SCHEDULE ' I TRUCK TRW Ogden First Control Station; Drivers to Stay Here Over Night ! The managing committee of tho Itruck train which will travel from Salt lLake to Boise during the next ten days has arranged its time schedule as follows: Here in Evening. "Leaving Salt Lake about the noon hour on Monday, May 17th, the truck train,, will pnss through Bountiful, Farm lng ton, Kaysville, Layton and i Clearfield, arriving in Ogden that same evening, where the first night's control has been arranged. The caravan cara-van will leave Ogden the following morning at 7:30 and is scheduled to reach Brigham City at 0:30 a. m. and I Logan at noon and remain over for I tho night. "Downey, whero the third control has been established, will be reached about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. "Another early start will be made from Downey Thursday morning; tho starting gun-is scheduled to be fired at 7:30 sharp. From Downey the train will hike leisurely to Pocatello. whoro it will spend tho night, this teeming little Idaho city having been selected for control number four. From Pocatello, Poca-tello, after the usual early start, tho train will wend its way over the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone trail to Blackfoot and on through Firth and Shelley to Idaho Falls, the Gem city of the upper Snake valley. Spending a night in Idaho Falls, (he truck train will back-track to Pocatello and essay tho long stretches that divldo that city from American Falls, a beauty spot in the sage brush valley, where nature elected elect-ed to establish ono of tho many beau-. beau-. tiful cascades that block steamboat 1 traffic on tho sinuous Snake. Night In Burloy. "Through the Avoll-watored fields of fertile Idaho farms to Burley, will be tho noxt truck hike and arriving early at this charming llttlo city, the center cen-ter of population and wealth of one of Uncle Sara's most successful irrigation projects, another night's rest will be Indulged In. "Burloy to Twin Falls, ovor a broad-gauge broad-gauge road recently laid down and sur-1 faced and the truck train will halt for the seventh time oh, magic number at the biggest little city in all tho wide i west. Broad streots and wellpaved 'avenues wil greet thet ruck drivers; swell hotels and clasry cafes will hand I nronnd monn cards and n hlcr nlcht's doin's Is anticipated. "Through tho finest irrigated section sec-tion in all southern Idaho, with Just occasional glimpses of "bad lands, tho truck caravan will wandor around, until it has visited Buhl, Jerome, Shoshone Sho-shone and Gooding. At tho latter city It will pitch tents for tho night, the ninth successive stopover. "From Gooding iho truck train will drop down into the Snake rivor valley and skirting this winding stream, slump along until it reaches Glenns ' Ferry. Here, crossing a bridge where i once the wading -as considered good, the truck train will climb up onto a i commanding mesa and a short run 5 brings It to Mountain Home, another control city. "From Mountain Homo 'to Boise Is an easy run north of about forty mile3 over a fine highway and then the shouting will commence In earnest Boise will' have a home-made truck train out on the road to meet the Salt Lako caravan and escort It Into thei city limits. Here the train will d Is-) band and each man and truck making the long drive will go It alone. Some will drive back others, If trouble ensues, en-sues, may have to walk, while some will ride home on the varnished cars." |