| Show automobile TRAVEL UNDER difficulties ralph corines Coff ings describes strenuous trip through sno and mud the following letter is a sermon on improvement of the roads in the south portions of the state and for that purpose wi as well as aa to oblige our correspondent we give it space johnson Joh nEon utah march still ath 1914 editor richfield reaper richfield utah dear sir thinking fat f at perhaps a description of an auto trip from mo ioe to kanal at this time of 0 5 ear would be to your readers I 1 will wid try to give you a short detail of such an e experience on the of february a party of three mr air lohn john E gleavy gle imp of Anns annabella bella henry nielsen and the writer left monace at about noon we whizzed dong along without any trouble troubie until we the divide at mrs vale while walla ve did not expect it at this time of the acar car we mud and quite an all amount of mow 1 1 1 w maling making traveling somewhat 1 afi ault owing to the force required to drive the car through the mud and snow we were compelled to stop atop quite often and let the engine cool lt but managed to reach the summit after several attempts from here the road down to the river wis ex muddy and at three different times we wore were apparently stuck but by two of ui retting getting out and lifting on th the back of tho the car we managed to get out of 0 the holes boles from south tho the road is not bar bad until neary nearly through circle ville cannon canion and here the tha mud again 1 heumes almost impassable a ard r I 1 from there to Pargui it is one con linual get intha mad hole and get out and lift we ched panguitch at about 9 here we were told by several men that it would be impossible for us to reach Hach town however we were not to be datered from making the attempt and managed to reach that place after passing over some very rough roads made more on en by the mud freezing solid at hatchtown Hatch town we though it the better part of wisdom to secure some help and from there we took a team teal to help us ua over oter the worst places and with this a assistance s s 1 stance we reached the tha mail malI stat station on n near r the dummit at sundown and stopped there all night during thu the evenin evening ct a man mail came over the hill from the south and whan he learned of our intentions of taking the trip with an auto he said we were crazy in many places the en enow ow was so BO deep dee p that when a horse horne got off the regular track lie he would sink emit in over big ahli back however we placed the front of our car on i pair of bobs boba brought for the pur purpose pose and with the aid of out team we e rolled or slid out at sunrise in this vay we could keep the team on the trot without any grint effort on the part of the ho motor and the team could help us where the road w was as soft alft or in another way hard to get through we traveled in this way until we reached the mcdonald ranch at a little after noon here w we e e exchanged K the bob sled for the runn running ng gear of a wagon for our teamster to I 1 ride on and took to real auto traveling again we retained the team as we thought we might need its assistance from all that we could 11 airn it was waa thought that we would woul b be unable to get through Hov however over we kept on going and only needed the team two or three times until we e got to glendill Glen dilo where we igaina laid over for a night we in kanoh kanah the following daiy diy having gone over the famous sand roads of kane county we created quite an lupient excitement on arriving in kandib is 13 vo no one ever expected to t see on luto conie coma into that place it this time of the year the trip took three diss and ana n 1 I half ind co cot cost t us Is just 10 1 1 piece while the fame trip cosit me ine last 3 acir c ir sli 15 ard nino nine dais time wo we travilee leu over some of the worst roads tint thit it il is pos poi siolo gible to lo imagine rind that without ou t a ot any kind not even a puncture truly RALPH COLLINGS |
