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Show SALT LAKE'S MAT0RJETU1S Salt Lako, July 38. Mayor J. S. Dransford and wife and I A. Evans, wife and family, returned to this city Sunday forenoon from a vacation, in which they traveled, since June 2, 2,500 miles In an automobile. Mayor BranBford said that he had been glad to drop his various business carets and official duties, but that he was also glad to be back in Salt Lake Cliy. Wallace Bransford and his wife, who also made the tame trip in an automobile, auto-mobile, returned to the city Saturday night Speaking of his trip. Mayor Brans-ford Brans-ford said that the party had left the city on June 2 and had xone to Brlg-bam Brlg-bam City and from there on to Elko, Eureka, Fallon and Reno. Nev.. spending spend-ing a night In each place. From Reno, Re-no, the party drove the machines to Lake Tahoe, Cal., and from there to Qulncy, Plumas county, Cal. A stop of a week was made at that plaee. It being the old home of the mayor. At Indian Valley the party also stopped for a week, whore the mayor renewed old acquaintances, barking back to the time when he served as sheriff of the county for eight years and as assessor asses-sor for four years. 8ees the Big Fight. After leaving Indian Valley, the party par-ty proceeded toward Greenwald and from there to Red Bluff. At Vallejo. Cal.. the automobiles were . shipped across the bay to San Francisco, where a week was put In seeing the sights. From there. Mayor Bransford ran down to Reno In time to become a spectator at the Jeffries-Johnson fight. Tho Santa Clara valley was the next point of Interest, and from there to the Santa Cruz mountains, where tho redwood trees aro to be seen. Between Del Monte and San Luis Obispo, a 6lght. which mfxht well have been entitled "The Woes of an Automoblllst," presented Itself to the party. The Salinas river had to bo crossed, and although dry. It contained contain-ed large beds of quicksand. Some unfortunate un-fortunate automobillat in attempting to cross the river hod his car mired In a bed of the quicksand and was unable to move forward or back out. He went to a nearby ranchman and, buying a few loads of etraw. scattered scatter-ed It beneath and In front of tho machine, ma-chine, hoping thus to drive the car through the sand. Car Is Burned Up. When he was ready to start he opened the cut-off of the muffler on his car and turned on the power. The result was alarming. The fire from the gasoline Ignited the straw, and before the eyes of the unfortunate automoblllst aut-omoblllst his car, as well as his trunks and suit cases containing his clothing, cloth-ing, was virtually consumed When Mayor Bransford and his party drove by, the car was still In the middle of the river bed, a monument to the woes of the automoblllst. After Los Angeles was reached, the automobiles, In perfect working order, or-der, were loaded on freight cars and shipped to Salt Lake City, the party returning to this cJtv by rail. Speaking Speak-ing of the trip. Mayor Bransford said that 1t was without a mishap of the slightest kind, not even the sand causing the slightest bother to the machines, which had not been touched touch-ed with a wrench or screwdriver since leaving Salt Lnke City. ABked what he thought of the fight at Reno. Mayor Bransford stated that he was disgusted dis-gusted with the spectacle and with the very poor showing made by Jeffries. |
