The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-14
AUTOS TO CIRCLE
GREAT SALT LAKE
Endurance Race is Planned For tkt
Coming Summer.
HERALD TO OFFER TROPHY
TRIP WILL BE ABOUT 500 MILES
IN LENGTH.

The greatest thing ever attempted
in the automobile racing line is-noW
being planned to take place in Utah
the coming summer. It is an endur-
ance race around the Great Salt lake,
with Salt Lake City as the starting
place, and after making a complete
circle of the great inland sea viii end
in this city a race of this kind
might at first seem to be SurmOunted
with obstacles that cannot be over
come, but that the feat is not only pos
sible but practical is believed by many
In order to prove that such a test IS
within the range of possibilities, The
Herald has agreed to offer a trophy to
the winner and has already received
the assurance of a number of auto
mobile drivers and owners in the city
that they viii undertake the periloUs
! journey
The Great Salt lake has never been
clrCled by an automobile, but once II
has been accomplished on a bicycle,
and if by a wheel, why not by a mo-
tive power driven machine2 Such a
rae means that the intrepid Chauf-
feur must drive day and night, over
/ mountains and desert part of the time
following the rough country roads, and
again Skimming over the great waste
Of alkali fats that bound the lake on
| the west.
Nature Of the Course.
/ Leaving the paved streets Of salt
| Lake. the course would be north tC
j Ogden, covering the Pennington road
| race course, the best stretch of made
/ roads in the state. The sand ridge this
/ side Of Ogden can be traversed only
/ with the low gear From Ogden tC
/ Brigham City comes another stretch
| of good roads as it carries one wes
| toward Corinne. From this point tn
/ lake is circled until the mountainOU,
! region OF PrOmOntOTy takes the race
! over grades that viii test the climbing
/ strength Of the best machines in tn
/ state The old overland emigrant rOat
/ is followed TO Terrace. Utah Her
/ the chauffeur bids goodbye to TIL
1 outside world for the dash across tn
4 desert. and here comes the test 0
/ nerve on the part Of the driver.
! For a distance of $50 miles not
/ living object gTeets the eye The GTea
/ American desert, that has caused tn
| death Of many d weary traveller. 70
| the first time will feel the touch .
/ the TUbbsT-tiTed Chug wagons tina
/ have invaded nearly every known spO
/ on the globe except this uninhabited
( dcsolate stretch of bone-strewn waste
] ttr man anu III machine " III ltiEl
/ drop from view until they again bUrs
/ into civilization at Grantsvilie Utah
| around the southern shore Of the LAX
/ a well defined road brings one pas
! Garfield Beach into Salt Lake City
after travelling a distance of about 80
miIss without sleep and without rest
/ Probable Time Twenty-Four Hours
/ The time il would take to make sucI
a trip is problematical, but It shouI'
| be covered within the twenty-fou
! hours Such a race would be one o
/ the greatest tests Of the aUtOmObil
! ever made IN the world
! o II. Hewlett president of the Sal
/ Lake Automobile club. and ". VI
4 Bransford. president of the Salt LAX
! Chauffeurs' club, are two who believ,
/ practical. W. NJ BTansford and Der
Fuller are two local chauffeurs VII,
/ wish to make the trip as soon as tn
weather viii permit them TO test tn
/ possibilities of such a race.
! As soon as this trip is made. a dat
{ for the contest will be set, which vii
I be some time in the latter part Of JUL
/ or the early part Of August. The dat
/ selected viii be shortly after the Pike
1 Peak hill climbing contest, which
/ scheduled TO come off in Colorado thi
: summer 1t is thought that the aTOunl
I the lake race viii draw many of tn
| eastern Automobiles to Salt Lake. VIII
! viii take part in that race TO tn
! clouds.
Already over a dozen local driver
Of the chUg wagons have announce
( their intention Of entering a race 0
this kind, and il is expected that vine
the time comes for the event to he puIle
off it will have attracted the atten
ton Of auto owRSrs all over the world