Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-22
MINER IN AUTO To
PROSPECT DESERT
In Machine of His Own Design
H. w. LARSON and Wife
Start for Gold Fields
WORKED EIGHT YEARS ON CAR
Power Plant to Run Ore CruSher
and Generate Electric Light
for the Travellers
WORKED EIGHT YEARS ON CAR

Positively the most elaborate and
comfortable "gold seekers train that
ever started from civilization into the
wilderness pulled out of Los Angeles
last Monday evening on Its way TO not
only the known mining camps of the
southwest. but also into the far reaches
of mountainous country in the gold
belt included in Southern California,
Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Across
those same desert wastes where other
adventurous spirits, whose equipment
was encompassed in a well built
prairie schooner or entrusted 10 tne
backs of faithful pack animals, and
whose bones lie bleaching beside the
trail or in some long forgotten and
overlooked gulch q new kind of mining
prospector is now headed, and MS
equipment is the very latest known TO
mining men; the sole result of his
knowledge as a mechanical engineer,
combined with the knowledge of the
mining engineer chemist and assayist;
and his conveyance, the acme of auto
mobile construction, combining the
luxuries of a magnate's railway car;
the business aspect OF a draushtman's
studio; the equipment of the most up
to-date machine shop, and the acces-
sories of complete chemists labora-
tory.
The man who did 1t all is marvel.
For twelve months one of the most
quiet, unassunlng, non-communlca-
tive, yet one of the brightest minds,
has been working day by day to Duild
and equip a motor car and outfit that
would meet every contingency in the
practical side of mining life, without
any of the hardships attendant on his
predecessors. And the finished product
Is a triumph in the automobile world
and the forerunner of future mining
operations.
II. w. LARSON Is the builder, de-
signer and sole owner of this wonder
full car For eight years he has been
q practical mining prospector and has
prospered. Yesterday he parted with
his faithful pack mules that have ac-
companied him on his ramblings all
these years, and today is. headed for
the great mining unknown; with the
facilities ever at hand to quickly de.
termine whether he has uncovered
dross or gold, and to smelt and mold
the gold bars away off there from
other habitations, absolutely indepen-
dent of the crushers and smelters to
be found in the largest mining camps.
TRIUMPH OF MASTER SKILL
Delmarva is the euphonious name
given to this miners model travelling
palace, and 1t is destined to be re-
corded in the doings of the mining
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master mining skill.
Purchasing only the wheels of the
car in their manufactured state, he
has drawn the plans, made the pat
terms and superintended the casting of
every other part of his car He has
constructed his own model of three
cylinder two-cycle engine with double
friction drive, with a proved 33-horse
power and a steady travelling capacity
of fifteen miles an hour under any and
all conditions of roads from the sandy
desert to the most ragged wagon road
among the hills or to blaze a new
trail If necessary. The engine Is con-
nected with a dynamo which will gen.
crate and furnish electric lights for all
purposes, and the engine when not in
use for travel can be run with the
miniature ore crusher, which will turn
out any ore to the fineness of 100
mesh, which, in conjunction with a
miniature smelling plant completes the
mining outfit The car carries four
10-gallon tanks for gasoline and two
20-gallon tanks for water. The body
of the car is built for all the con-
veniences of housekeeping, including
two folding berths, a small kitchen
cabinet and triple cooking outfit, china
closet, folding chiffonier pumping
plant for drinking purposes where the
water travels through chemically
cooled pipes, affording ice water in the
hottest weather, and various lockers
for provisions and other supplies, all
so nicely adjusted that the big house
car is evenly balanced
The cars oiling devise is another
original feature. The oiler will pump
against 100 pounds pressure, and yet
measures out certain and exact guam
titles, though there is one spring and
plunger in its mechanism - and will
freely use any grade of oil.
The car is equipped with Morgan &