Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-04-11

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way, a single track railroad, and a
dashing, ripping mountain brook.
Part of the way limbs of trees shade
the road. One can turn his face up
ward from his seat in the car and see
solid rock directly in the line of vision
straight up into the heavens for hun
dreds of feet. On one side may be
seen solid mountains of rock of the
most peculiar and fascinating shapes
and angles, and on the other side of
the canyon solid mountains of earth
covered with verdure, such is the va
riety of the scenery. For miles and
miles this scenic panorama is super
I latively beautiful and brings forth eX-
pressions of wonderment and delight,
especially from fasteners who are
making their first pilgrimage into this
new and interesting land of the west.
We arrived at the Mormon city
about 5 o'clock in the afternoon days
run, sc miles), and found an agency of
the right sort. We put up at the
Perry hotel and had excellent accom-
modations at rs cents each, two in a
room. Restaurants are moderate in
charges.
Although Salt Lake City has a pop
ulation of less than 10000, it is an
unusually attractive, clean and well
ordered town. In many respects it is
superior to towns of equal size in the
east and has less of an undesirable
class of citizen. One would not know
that it was a Mormon city except by
certain buildings. To all appearances
it is simply an American city of the
better class.
At Salt Lake we encountered our
second rainy day of the trip, so we put
up all day Wednesday, September 4.
The cars were overhauled and we spent
much of the time in the usual sight
seeing-visiting the famous taberna-
Gle and other places of interest.
Pathfinder W. ID. Rishel of the Salt
Lake Tribune advised us to run south
to Milford on our way to Ely, Nevada,
instead of directly west through the
Great American Desert. He stated
that this advice was given on account
of the rainstorm which had been Sc
we're. If the weather had been dry
we could have made the run through
the desert without difficulty. The al
kali flats encountered all through this
western country are almost impassa-
BILE in wet weather because the mud is
SO extremely sticky and deep. In dry
weather the surface of these flats are
as hard as dry clay and make the
finest kind of speedways. Some of
the best bursts of speed we made OF
the whole trip were over these alkali
stretches.
Thursday, September ), we started
from Salt Lake City at 9:45 a. M, in
a drizZling rain. The sun soon came
M nd hn To- of
Jupiter Pluvius on our trip. We ran
passing through Provo, Nephi, Scipio,
Fillmore, Kanosh to Milford, going
over good roads for the most part, only
now and then striking some particu-
larly bad stretches. We had lunch at
Nephi and arrived at Fillmore (155
miles for the day., about 8 o'clock at
night. The village is in Willard coun-
ty and was named after the late Pres
ident Willard Fillmore 1t was at one
time the state capital of Utah Our
hotel was run by Norman family
and they put themselves out to give
US an excellent meal late in the even
ing. We had comfortable though old
fashioned rooms and a splendid break
fast next morning, for all of which
they charged us the modest sum of 81
each. They were intelligent people
and we had friendly and interesting
discussion of the Mormon religion
from our different points of view. 1t
was a broad minded visit" We dis
covered that Mormons were just plain
folks like our Methodists and Presby-
terians, subject to the same limita
tons and circumstances of life as any
of us.
On our run to Milford, next morn
ing we found some hard picking be-
cause of depressions in the roads
where the wheels of vehicles ran. This
had worn down to a depth so extreme
that the clearance of one of our cars
was insufficient to give us free pass
age. Once we stalled onia rocky CEN
ter. The car balanced itself and the
motive power spent itself in the air.
1t did not take long, however, to over
come the difficulty.
We arrived at Milford at ; o'clock
in the afternoon and though our guide
the Blue Book-told US we should
leave Milford at an early hour in the
morning in order TO make the run
through the desert to Ely, Nevada, we
didn't heed it. and started out imme
diately after lunch. We bumped along
until .nightfall and had about made up
our minds to sleep in our cars when
a dim light showed itself far ahead
of us. We had been delayed by tire
trouble after dark and were tired and
sleepy enough to quit for the Jay, but
the dim light beckoned us on and we
were soon knocking at the door Of the
ranch house at Garrison, Nevada,
owned by j. II. Dearden, an English
man, who had been mail carrier for
that section for 10 years. He took us
in for the night, charging us 81 apiece
for lodging and breakfast.
Before reaching this ranch at 10
o'clock at night, we had passed anoth-
er lonely rancher's place called Bur
banks. Here they had retired, but
the whole family arose and secured
for us milk and crackers and other
things TO eat. They were much inter-
ested i'm us and the two young boys
of the family nearly stared their eyes
out at the real automobiles that stood
before them and within reach.
At Garrison's we had the regular
rancher's breakfast and il proved to