Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-29
They ARRIVED
WITH A CRASH
FRED w. BISHOP AND A. p.
FORBES LAND IN AN
AUTO.

Fred w. Bishop. a member of the
San Francisco Stock and Exchange
board. accompanied by A. P. Forbes,
mining expert and dealer in mines,
arrived in Tonopah on Friday night.
They arrived with a bang.
The started from Frisco and made
a fresh start from Reno. They came
to Reno in a train; but after that the
gay and breezy auto for them. And
that they might not take any chances
with the smoke wagons Of the desert,
they imported their own gasoline
cart from San Francisco.
The cart will never go back to San
Francisco, the same cart that left
there.
The old go cart did fine execution
for twelve miles out of Reno and then
stuck her nose into the sand. For
three hours she stuck, but both the
passengers are strong men, n they
had Sandow looking like a speeter,
the way they moved that cart. But
when they reached the railroad track
they we're up against it.
Then out from the clouds, or some
where else, came a real strong man,
who simply lifted the auto over the
tracks. The cart only weighed 1000
pounds. Released from the sand, the
gasoline cart got real gay and pound
ed the painless desert at the rate of
sixty-well, sixteen miles an hour.
Many places were visited, many
mines inspected, and the gay old cart
, with its strong passengers, p%unctured
| many tires, and finally broke a brake
band and a spring.
n But nothing daunted, the passen
Y gers patched her up, swore like
] c%hauffeurs, got in again, got gu
1 again, put on new tires, stuffed up in
h ner tubes, swore some more, speed
p ed some more, and then came to
full stop.
The babbit had melted, and tn
chauffeur threw up his hands, an
d said that that was all. Without bal
it bit, the gasoline cart could not move
d And Tonopah 10 miles away.
Ie But Mr.. Bishop has been in man
y tight places. He has been a mimi
IN engineer, a newspaperman, and no
is a stock broker broker. Impossib,
ty to beat a combination like that. +
f. got to work and scraped out the bal
is bit then substituted heavier oil ar
to put In old clothes, old newspaper
any old thing for packing.
a loot, toot, and away again. Fin
x Over the hills and down the hill
IL the landscape sped away in the di
of lance, and then doomed up just Il
ng same in the nearness. The car sp'
re like a flyer, and then slowed doy
IN. like a tired mule.
M "We1l never make Tonopah
re walled the chauffeur.
ed Wen just make it, chauffy." sa
Die the gay Mr.. Bishop.
a Plup! Busted tire.l
ost %! H. Hid B. W.
he get out again and get busy"
The a looked ready to drop,
on they put fresh courage and a n
the tire into it, and off they we're ag;
OPP for Tonopah.
has They made ToDopah. oh, yes. I
ON car was humping along like
ov- dropping of the stamps in the
low mill at Millers, and anon it v
.ls, wheeling and wailing like a s
lille stranded on a lee shore. And
to acted like a ship, too at times. {
per- would go spinning along on two til
Ing, with a terrible list to starboard,
red, the passengers had to act as ball
DOT being shifted from side to side,
and ever ready to jump for their lives
aid. Tonopah at last! The car ca
|. / into town grooming like a poor, til
the wounded thing, and it went up N
street, up Florence avenue to wit
iyal fiftp feet Of the garage, and then
ties, Bangl There vas an exploi
No that would have raised the dead,
a no attention was paid to 1t here,
n it people thinking it vas merely
in blast. The occupants say that
busy fell out, were not blown out,
is is there was a mixture Of carbureti
cisco spark coils. cylinders, tire cast
is inner tubes, commutators, b
I the bands, springs, oil, gasoline, W
pres old clothes, old newspapers, and
see cart took one last squirt forward,
thin landed the two wheels that were
.oun- right at the door of the garage;
fell over on its remaining side
expired.
1t had been patched in so l
) an places that when it went" 1t
the all at once and all together. A
this yentory of the effects which
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