The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-10
CAUSE FOR DELAY
IN ELECTION NEWS
Ten Days Necessary to Get Re-
turns From Several Points
in Utah.
PERIL0US TRIPS MADE IN
SENDING OUT SUPPLIES
Snowshoes Have Frequently
Been Brought Into Use in
Crossing Mountains.

People wonder why election returns
in Utah are apparently so long delayed
from some of the outside counties. Here
is an illustration showing why. Brown IS
Park, in Uintah county, is ninety miles
from Vernal the county scat. The bal
lots cast in Browns S Park will be sent
10 the clerk of Uintah county by reg"
istered nail To reach Nernal they
Will have to traverse three states-vlz.
Utah, Wyoming and Colorado The
ballots will bo sent to Vernal via
Green River, Wyo,; Salt Lake, Utah;
Mack, Colo. thence via Dragon to Yer
nal Two years ago the vote In that
precinct decided the election of county
clerk of Uintah county. Up to the
time the returns were received from
there, ten DAYS after the election oc-
Cured. Hacking and Hanson had 5?3
votes each Brown s Park decided 1t
in favor OF Hacking,
How Supplies Arc Sent,
The way that election supplies were
sent from Vernal to Brown S Park shiS
vear is thus detailed by the Vernal
Express Says the Express:
Joe Hall left Wednesday morning for
Browns P9rk with the ballots OTIS 70 for fr6nt Ghf
of him. a trip that few people care 10
make at this time OF the year He took
two horses. one to ride and the otner
on which TO carry the supplies for the
election Judges at Manila. Bridgeport and
Linwood. The supplies consist of two
ballot boxes, officials ballots. sample bal
lots. Instructions to voters and other
things necessary in the conducting OF the
election. One OF the horses was the
famous black oucklng broncho Lh2t has
g., 1 Ie "a hs,f oil "a I.
ne viii bc tired before he secs Nernal
Travels Ninety Miles.
owing to the deep snow over Taylor
mountain. Hail was compelled 70 go by
way Of Diamond mountain, which makes
the distance to he travelled something
like ninety miles. The distance by way
OF Taylor mountain is about seventy
miles Hall was due TO deliver the sup
plies to the election judges tonight. The
law requires that the notices be posted
not later than that time; Ninety miles
In two days over such rhads as he had
TO travel IS mighty long distance.
The people here in Vernal have an Idea
that they arc long way from home,
the population and In easy reach Of the
telegraph. the railroad and other com
forts when compared with The people toVer
there. No possible means Of comlnuhica-
tion between Vernal and Browns park
except In the way that Hall Is making IT,
Many people have wondered II II would
not be better for the Brown park coun-
try II 1t was q part OF Wyoming. The
distance to Rock Springs ana other parts
of Wyoming is not far and the roads are
better. OF course Utah does not desire
TO lose that vast territory. but would Il
no. be better for those People?
This Is Great Country.
This question OF so much trouble and
expense incident 10 an election rem uds
us once again that America is the great,
est country under the sun. 1t is Indeed
the land of the free and the nome OF thI
brave. There are less rnan 100 votes II
! all that section, yet look what pains are
| taken and what efforts are made to giv.
| those voters the opportunity 10 eXercis,
| their rights American citizens. W,
/ all have say in the election of ruler
| OF this great country and no man live:
| so far away from civilization but that h,
! has the chance.
Many perlous trips have been mad,
! across the mountains, in all kinds o
weather and after all fashions. Snow.
| shoes have been brought into use fire
! quently. On one occasion a dead man wa,
! brought from the Dyer mine by the aic
! of snowshoes. Altman Gardner, who wa
working al the mine one winter when tn,
snow was very deep. died OF heart fail
ure. The men who We're working will
| him put the corpse on a sled and on snow
| shoes they pulled the sled into Vernal