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Show AUTO MAKES FAST TIME. DiEtance 16 being eliminated by the. automobile. On Monday a car lef-Salt lef-Salt Lake, bound fur the entrance to Vellov, Btone. Leaving at 3:32 a rn it arrived at the entrance to the park at 1:35 p m., the elapsed time being ten hours and three minutes and the actual running time eight hours and thirty-nine minutes. The distance covered was 383 miles. In the old days of ox teams, that journey would have required nearly ihree weeks. From Salt Lake to Preston, Idaho, the run was made in two hours and twenty seven minutes. While in motion the car was operated oper-ated at an average speed of 44 3 miles j an hour, or a speed equal to that of, some of our fatest express trains. Somewhere along the route the peed regulations must have been broken, but. for the purpose of the , est, thl6 infraction of the law was j necessary. oo |