The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-15

and Midland trails from Salt Lake.
total of over 400 miles OF roads was
covered. fifty posts driven in the
ground and about forty signs nailed in
place. The transcontinental tourist
will now find a painted trail across the
state of Utah from east 10 west.
Trip of Experiences.
Any trip Of this kind is full OF ex.
periences. Those engaged IN the work
encountered grief in punches as well as
bouquets of Joy. Speeding over the
desert on a perfect boulevard al fifty
miles an hour and the nearest arresting
officer 100 miles away is what one
might term the height of speed-bug
pleasure. Four hours in an irrigation
ditch because some farmer let the wa
ter get away is the grief end Of such
a trip.
The Trbune-velie pathfinder didn Il
overlook anything and had both. Then
lowed by a heavy rain lasting four
hours, during which time the rain
turned into snow, furnished side is
sue to be remembered by those who
made the trip In brief that was what
The Tribune-Velie pathfinder and its
Michelin tires were up against on its
trip across the desert and back home
again.
Mr.. Gustaveson's Ditch.
About seven miles beyond The Ka-
naka ranch there is a ranch owned by
the Neff brothers and managed by one
Mr., Gustaveson. The latter gentleman
does not like automobiles, but the writ,
er believes he now respects at least
one, The Tribune Velie pathfinder. Per
haps this is not true of the machine
driven by Collins Holcomb that spent
about six hours in the same mud hole
which embraced the Pathfinder for four
hours. But perhaps Mr.. Holcomb has
sweeter disposition than the driver
of the Pathfinder Anyway, the afore-
mentioned Mr.. Gustaveson allowed his
ditch TO overrun a public highway and
has caused a menace TO every car which
has travelled this route this year. The
Tribune-Velie hit this mud hole full of
confidence and at the end Of an hour
succeeded in backing out again. The
ditch was charged full steam ahead at
another point and at the end of an
other hour block and tackle combined
with the pulling power of Mr., Colt and
the engine, got the car clear again. The
ditch was tried a third time at another
point and this time the car dropped in
bevoud the power of a gasoline motor
and Of human endeavoT.
Met the Farmer.
II was then Mr. Colt and the writer
became intimately acquainted with Mr.,
Gustayeson. The latter gentleman was
busiIv engaged watching US working to
get out of the hole from the safe ref
uge of his ranch house a half mile
away. But when the car dropped into
the ditch for the third time we stormed
the sacred premises of his home and in
few short, well chosen words, told
him where to "head in at. At the
first outbreak Mr.. Gustaveson said he
would not hitch his team of horses to
anv automobile on earth. He was in
formed that he would quickly alter his
decision or q certain individual not
over three feet away would make
record run to the nearest court and
swear out a warrant for his arrest for
violating the state law by allowing his
irrigation ditch to food the road, and
that arrest would carry bill of dam
ages which would take several tons Of
alfalfa to settle. Mr.. Gustaveson saw
the light Immediately and performed
record stunt in securing his shovel, rub
minutes the Pathfinder was on its way.
Horses Mire in Mud.
But in the meantime Mr.. Orr of the
Orr brothers came along with team
of horses which promptly mired in the
same hole. 1t was necessary to cut the
and pull them out. Jt was then learned
that dozen or more cars. as we'll us
| several teams, had been stuck In this