, 1896-08-31
'CAME THR0UGHLARANIE
BEST TIME YET HEARD
FROM.
A Remarkable Ride From Fort Steele
TO this City.-An Experience with
the Mud this Side Of RawlIns.-In
Twelve Fea; of Water.-Mrs. Rine-
harris Ride to the Buttes.

AT 1927 this morning, trailed by
Frank B. Cramer, C. D. Spalding hand
ed the Journal Examiner Yellow Eel
low message to Mrs. A. E. Reinhart,
and the part taken in the race by the
Laramie riders was at an end. They
were scheduled to make the trip from
Fort Steele to Laramie in 10 hours and
% minutes, but they beat the schedule
by two hours and 43 minutes, making
the trip in 1O:45.
From Rawlins to Fort Steele Messrs.
Deitrick and Erswell of Cheyenne made
the distance last evening in three hours
and 35 minutes. but a heavy fall of rain
yesterday had converted the road into
one mass of gumbo mud and it was
worse han walking. The night was
darker than a stack of black cats and
the riders were unable to see 10 feet in
advance. On n occasion they took a
drop into a rut washed in the road
which was filled with water, and they
solemnly yer that it vas - feet deep.
Clamoring Il of this difficulty they
proceeded on their long walk through
soft mud to their shoe tops. When they
arrived at Fort Steele at 1910 they
were mud all over, their wheels were
p!astered, Erswell had a black Y and
was minus his glasses. and they were
otherwise a sorry looking couple. They
came to Laramie on an early freight
his morning.
Elmer Loveioy, trailed by j.. H. Kis-
see. took the message at Fort Steele at
1910 last night and they started on
their 3O-mile ride to Quealey's ranch.
The distance was covered in five hours
and 10 minutes. a remarkable ride when
all the conditions are considered. From
the ranch they went to the railroad ana
came to Laramie on No. 4.
For more than an hour the rain pour
ed down on them, rendering the road
almost impossible. Two miles were
made Through CROSSWORD, puncturing
tires and making it necessary for the
boys to stop and pump up. 1..e night
was SO cloudy that the moon furnished
very little light to guide the bikers on
their way. Even the gigantic outlines
of Elk mountain were invisible in the
darkness. Quealey's vas made at 4:5O,
just as the first streak of dawn illum-
ined the eastern sky.
From Quealey's to Rockdale. Is miles,
Prick and Holiday made the distance
over very bad roads in two hours, ar
irving at the latter point at $50, where
they turned the message over to Carlos
Harris, who arrived at Northrup's, IA
miles. in n hour and II minutes, hav-
ing very good wheeling for that usual
iy bad road.
AT Northrup's Mr.. Harris delivered
the message 20 Chas. w. DeKay, and
trailed him to Fees, the distance, eight
miles, being made by Mr.. DeKay in so
minutes.
At Fees F. B. Cramer took the mes
sage and turned it over to C. D. Spald-
ing Al Aisop's al 1888. the distance OF
II miles being covered in "a minutes.
From Alsop's C. D. Spalding made the
distance to Laramie, - miles, in SO
minutes, Mr.. Cramer keeping right
with him to the city. Between here
and Alsop's there is n steep hill
which had to be walked, which pre-
vented very fast time being made.
The ride from Fort Steele to Lara
mile was a remarkable one in every re-
spect, and the Laramie boys have COW
cred themselves with no little glory,
and some mud.
EAST OF LARAMIE.
Leaving Laramie at 1928 Mrs. Rein
hart took '1he message to Red ButteS in
80 minutes. which is considered very
good riding for a lady rider.
At Tie Siding Mrs. Remnant deliver
ed the message to Johnny MCGUIRE,
who turned it over to R. Spoor at Tie
Siding at 11:47. who in turn delivered it
to Johnny Green at Sherman at 1910.
Green passed Granite at 1852 and ar
rived at Cheyenne at 1852, completing
the ride from Laramie to Cheyenne in
3 hours and "a minutes.
The rlders who failed to come
through on their wheels came in from
the west on the belated NO. 4. Carlos
Harris rode clear through from Rock
dale on his wheel. arriving in the city
a little after II O'Clock. The exertion
was too much, and he has been nearly
prosI.1ated since.
AN things considered, the ride made
by Spalding and Cramer was ule speed
lest thus far In the race, and it will
hump the boys OF the lower attitudes
to beat 1t on the trip. Mr.. Cramer was
compelled to walk a short distance
through mud, upon his really, and the
two compelled to climb one hill
this side OF Alsop's. but in spite OF this
the twenty-four miles was made in the
remarkably quick time of SO minutes.
According to the schedule mapped
out by the general managers OF the race
'Jhe riders should have arrived at Fort
Steele at 6:44 last night and reached
Laramie at S:12 this morning. In spite
Of all the bad luck encountered thus far
ON the trip, 1t will be seen that the boys
were this morning only two hours and