The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-07-18
HOT SAND HARD
ON AUTO TIRES
BaltImoreans Have Peculiar Expert
ence In Nevada.

! portion OF Death valley, IN NeVa-
da, the sand was so hot that the
inner tubes OF the tires on our
automobiles grew so hot that they
cemented themselves to the outer
tubing, and when after a thrilling
run from Green Water to Ubehebe,
and thence to Bonnie Claire, a
total distance of I85 miles, which
we made in seven hours and a half,
the tires were all in one piece.
The thermometers showed 100 de-
grees," thus spoke Mr.. George
B. Alderman, of Goldfeld, New,
while sitting in his room at the
Belvedere last night, enjoying
what he thought was delightfully."-
cool weather. He was telling of
the experiences of a party of Balti-
moreans who returned last night
from an I8-day trip to the copper
mines of Nevada. The party
reached Baltimore at $50 o'clock
on the chartered Pullman car Rain
bow, and went Immediately to the
Belvedere for dinner.
The party was under the care of
Mr.. Jack Salsberry, president of
the Ubehebe Mining and Smelling
Company. and the rip was for the
purpose of having the gentlemen
who are largely interested in the
mines at Ubehebe, inspect a parti-
cularly rich vein that has just been
struck, and also to devise means
of building a railroad to connect
with the Bonnie Claire, a distance
of IS miles from the works.
Bonnies Claire was the first stop
made on the way out. Here the
party embarked in automobiles
for Tonopah, where they rested
for one day before venturing
through the northern portion OF
Death Valley.
You would be surprised, said
Mr.. Alderman last night, lat the
use to which the automobile is be-
ing put in the West 1t has prac-
tically revolutioniZed the means
of mining there. Where before a
mine could not be opened because
it was too far from the base OF
supply and at a distance which
made it almost impossible for a
mule team to haul enough food
now the automobile is used as a
| freight carrier into the desert.
The ride over the desert is made
just as quickly as the car will go,
every car being in the hands of an
experienced chauffuer, who has
goggles and coat to protect him
from the sand, and the assur.
ance that if he tries to go faster
than 10 miles an hour there will
be no bluecoat hiding in prairie
dog hole waiting to take him tc
some justice of the peace There,
the lid is always off for speed.
After leaving Tonopah, our
party was taken to Greenwater
where we stayed two days, look.
ing over the mines and inspecting
the newly found vein. 1t was or
our return trip. that, striking right
through the center OF the desert
we found the heat so oppressive,
Going along at a 65-mile-an hour
clip, with the small particles o.
sand striking the exposed portion
of your faces like hailstones, and
with the air so close and dry that
one has to gasp sometimes fol-
breath, it is exhilirating to say
the least. The sand burns the
tires until the odor which the
Eastern man complains of wher
riding behind a moving automobile
is made stronger by the smell o.
smouldering rubber. When we
examined our tires they had all
melted into one piece.
1--WE next went to Goldheld
New, the place where gold come.
from, and remained for a day. Mr.
Henry Merry, the young son o
Mr.. H. G. Merry, remained there
and l understand will stay for sew
eral months to get taste of West
ern life. On our way home w,
made Cheyenne, our Fourth O
July stopping place, and it wa.
there that l sacrificed finger"
Mr.. Alderman exhibited ban
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