Show automobilists ARRIVE MADE A FAILURE OF THEIR PROPOSED transcontinental TRIP alexander winton inventor ot of the winton automobile and charles B shanks correspondent for the cleveland Plain dealer arrived in ogden at this morning their attempt to cross the continent in an automobile met with a miserable failure soon after they left Love bove locks nevada for a time before this however they were blocked in the snow on the Sl sierras erras the tourists covered about miles in their machine and were on the road eight days their troubles commenced on leaving wadsworth tuesday morning nine miles out of that town they ran into a sand hill which the machine would not climb they returned to wadsworth equipped the carriage with a lower gear and started out again reaching the station known as desert tuesday night the next morning they got an early start but they had be tore fore them the desert wastes which were to put an end to the first attempt to cross the continent in an automobile at times the road was excellent and the machine covered mile after mile at a high rate of speed but the intermittent stretches of sand were unconquerable when the automobile ran into one of these the wheels sank and continued to spin around but there was no forward motion then the tourists had bad to alight rig a block an and tackle and pull their machine from it its sandy barrier by main strength then there were rushing mountain streams to cross and once they ran into a swampy flat and the machine sank to its huba bubs in the mud one stream was so large that a bridge had to be built across it innumerable other difficulties diffIcult les were met with and overcome until they arrived at mill city where the machine hopelessly stalled in a sand hillock they left it and went into winnemucca and left the latter place on no 6 yesterday afternoon for ogden before leaving mill city they arranged for the shipment of the machine which weighs 1700 pounds and Is driven by a 15 horse power engine to the east they continued their journey cast east this afternoon mr winton took his failure philosophically he ire says that it Is absolutely impossible tor for an automobile to cross the stretches of sand on the deserts of nevada but be he Is not discouraged and says bays be will make a machine that will conquer the desert lie ile will make another trial in his specially constructed automobile probably next summer |