The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
AMERICAN CAR
NEARING OGDEN
Leader in TranScontinentaI
Automobile Race Travels All
Night Through Mud.
HERALD PILOT AT MORGAN
MOTORS IN RACE SCATTERED
FROM IOWA TO UTAH.
Special to The HeraldD

Ogden, March 14.-By using the
Union Pacific right of way only was
the American car i'm the New York
Paris race able to make any Roadway
today, and even then the big racer
required thirteen hours to cover thir-
ty-six miles between Evanston. Wyo,
and Echo Utah. 1t was by far the
worst day yet experienced by the ma
chine. It was $50 when the machine
pulled slowly into Echo. The crew was
almost tagged out from their exertions
of the day, but as too much time had
already been lost on account OF the
bad roads. they piuckily determined TO
push on to ogden, where the machine
could undergo repairs and be put in
trim.
Sticks in Mud-Hole.
At 1855 the American car pulled out
of Evanston, Wyo., where it spent last
night. Instead of following the orig
inal plan of using the Union Pacific
tracks west from that point. the ira
chine took another try at the treacn-
erous roads After making five miles,
in slow time, during which the block
and tackle was brought into play sew
era.l times, the auto lodged in Il mud
hole from which the crew could not
extricate it. Several teams OF horses
We're sent out from Evanston u PULL
the car out. At Wyuta, about seven
miles from Evanston, it was decided to
abandon the highway, and again the
Union Pacific officials were appealed
to. Permission was given to glse the
tracks from that station is Castle
Rock Chief Dispatcher Brown of the
Union Pacific went out from Evanston
and acted as pilot for the car while
it was being handled as an extra train.
This precautiOn was taken i'm order
that there might be no chance for con-
fusing the Geographic train JIders
After a slow run on the ties to Wa
satch, where the car arrived at 2. 70
O'Clock, it was held until p. N. 20
meet number of freight and Dassen-
ger trains. From Wasatch the car
made the usual SLOW time over the
railroad tracks. consuming two hours
and five minutes to cover a distance of
nine miles. At Castle Rock the roads
Z
pany could not afford to interfere far
Their with it's traffic, the machine again
took to the county highway and COW
cred the distance of sixteen miles TO
Echo in two hours % minutes Earlier
in the day a telegram was received in
Ogden to ship six new tires to Echo.
and when the big machine reach FL
that point twenty minutes was used in
getting these on board. the car pulling
out for Morgan at $3.50 o. m.
Going All Night.
At a. m. the car had not yet arrived at
Morgan. After leaving Echo at $50
p. m, the auto launched in a mudhole
about one and a half miles further west
and, being unable to proceed further,
returned TO Echo. At HIS o'clock a
fresh start was made from that place
with the understanding that if they
again got stuck they would return to
Echo and spend the night. Some time
later freight train arriving at Nor
gan reported having passed the car at
Henefer, ten miles east of Morgan. The
machine had apparently gotten by the
mudhole and, it is said. was making
good time.
At 3 o'clock the report from Morgan
came that the car had arrived there at
2:3O and left at 2:45. At o'clock it was re-
ported to be nearing Ogden. The Her
al &c in