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Show MOISTS COVER LONGDISTANCE W. U WalU and Allan Sadler of the Utah Motor Car company. Salt Lake, arrfved In Ogden last evening en route home from an exteuslve trip Into Idaho The run yesterday from Po-catello. Po-catello. a distance of 144 miles, was made since noon, and s considered an extremely pood record conBlderlng tho present condition of the mads. Upon their return to Salt Lake today, to-day, YVallH and Sadler will have completed com-pleted a run of 233 miles In three weeks' time. The trip was for business busi-ness purposes and tb car proved to be a wonder lor rouph touring. "Wc left Sail Iike three weeks afn," said Mr. AValls, last evening, "and went first to Pocatello. C-ntin-tMnK from there to American Falls, ve then msde Milner. Twin Falls. Shoshone, Relleview, Haley and Boise From Boise we took In the surrounding surround-ing towns, lncludlnc Nam pa, Caldwell. Payette, EnimetL Ontario and Meridian, Meri-dian, and then started on our return via GnodinK. American Falls, Minidoka Mini-doka and Pocatello. "We encountered some terrible roads, espclally the sandy sections near Minidoka, where we had fifty-four fifty-four miles of deep Rund. The sand Is so loose that one can penetrate It to the depth of a foot w ith a stick and as for motoring over It, the proposition Is certainly a fierce one. We were 14 hours ,?olns: a distance of forty miles. "Idaho Is booming, especially In the clnlty of some of those 'big Irrigation Ir-rigation projects. The government proposition at Minidoka and the Carey act project at Twin Falls are winners win-ners and wUl Increase the population and prosperity of the state to a wonderful won-derful extent." |