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Show ARCH BROWNINGS AN EXPERT DRIVER . Had a Trying: Experience in Wyoming With Washouts, Wind and Sand, But Brought His Cadillac of 1911 Model Through Without With-out a Mishap Long Journey a Complete Success. With tnelr cyclometer reading "1,981 mllee," Archie Browning of tho Browning garage, and Harry Bracken Brack-en of Salt Lake City arrived In Ogden Og-den late yesterday afternoon In a Cadillac Ca-dillac 30 horsepower touring car, which they had driven to thU city from the factory in Detroit, Mich. The young men left the Cityof-Stralts Cityof-Stralts Monday. August S, making the entire trip without any mishaps to the automobile Their route was by way of Chicago. Omaha and Cheyenne. Browned by the wind and eun and bespattered with nmo. and dut, tho two motorlstB looked like American Indians Just off the warpath when they pulled into the Grant acnue garage and leaped from the car. Thev were In good spirits, however, and stated that they had enjoed their long trip hugely and were fccllnej fine, despite their rather haggard appearance. ap-pearance. "We really had a good lime overland over-land with the car," said Browning this morning. In telling the story of the journey. " We only touched the wrench once on the whole trip and that waa to tighten tho fool brake, and we had some awful stiff roads to get over ot that. We used no water in the radiator and had no trouble with the car. Throughout the trip we averaged fourteen miles to the gallon of gasoline and altogether used only eight quarts of lubricating oil. The longest trip for one day was from Marshalltown, la , to Columbus, Colum-bus, Neb., a distance of 321 miles. We aeraged about 250 miles a dy during the entire trip. "The roads through the central i states were very good, but we wer caught In a number of rain storms. When we got to Wyoming we struck bad roads roads that were in places made almost impasiable by washouts and sand The road between Rawlins Raw-lins and Rock Springs. Wyo., Is the worst stretch between New- York and San Francisco. It is about fifty miles of sand and washouts and one can't tell whether ho is on a road or not. This Is one of the worst features of the trip through Wyoming one Is so apt to get lOBt from the trail. Near Fort Steel we lost the road and wandered wan-dered among the sagebrush and sand for several hours. There were all kinds of washouts around us; In fact, we seemed to be In a regular laby-llnth laby-llnth of ditches and it seems only a matter of good luck that we ever did get back on the trail again. "Another had feature of Wyoming travel is the perpetual wind that'a what's the matter with my face Its no pleasant thing to face ihe sanded winds of Wjomlng for days at a time. Leae out Wyoming and the trip was altogether pleasant We had courteous courte-ous treatment all along the route from everybody with whom we came In contact con-tact and no accidents whatever. Just the one adventure of being lost, that wa all of an exciting nature that there was In the trip " The car in which the trip was made Is 1911 model of the Cadillac automobile. The youn? men made the trip to Detroit by rail and decided de-cided to bring the car to Ogden overland over-land Just for the novelty of the trip and to try out the staying qualities of the new car. In every manner the trip appears to have been satisfactory. |