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

Hty were 100 SPECIFY, Snedky anu
foxy. To the tenderfoot they look like
wolves or like some species Of our do
nestle dogs, though their fur is shay
gy and pretty, like red fox.
In the canyons wild hay grows and
in some damp places alfalfa. Pota-
toes and grain can also be raised, but
the principle occupation is sheep and
cattle raising.
In places where saloons are estab-
lished, conditions are not what they
should be. The license fee is $1,000
and the ranchers who do drink are
plungers at it. The saloons in many
places are open day and night. Lii
censes are granted only in incorpora-
ted cities, but any kind of a settle
ment can become city. Some places
with only dozen houses are called
cities.
A rancher who runs a place for the
owner gets sos per month and every
thing furnished for his home and fam
lily. Sheep herders get $40 per
month. Farm hands get $40 per
month, rain or shine.
To keep a claim prospecting miner
must do 500 worth of work a year
and ten-foot shaft must be sunk the
first year.
We resumed our journey Saturday
morning, August 31st, quite early and
as we look back now we can see that
from this pointer say from Lara
mie, Wyoming-our real touring
troubles began. Up now the trip
had been just one grand sweet glide
like an afternoons ride a few miles
out of town. Of course there had been
some spots and stretches along the
way that had tired our patience to
slight extent, but generally speaking
the trip up to this point had been
without hardship.
We were leaving the outposts of
civilization and the roads indicated it.
They were not impossible, but they
were more than trying. In the first
place the way is all mountainous from
Laramie west, clear across Wyoming,
Utah, Nevada, California and until
the Pacific ocean stares you in the
face-and mountains are made to be
climbed. 1t is a case of getting over
one mountain range after another,
across plains and alkali valleys, and
then going over other ranges-and
this keeps up for days and days and
days, until one wonders if there is
ever to be an end to it. There isn't.
With the exception Of some especially
wide valleys the country is all noun
famous from Denver west. When it
does rain the water rushes down the
sides with tremendous force
and the roads-mostly sand ones
are cut up cross-wise, SO that ones car
has to be slowed down at every gutter
or it would be Jared to pieces,
to say nothing of the discomfort of its
occupants.
We found roads that made our car
adventurous, aeronautical,
afflicted, affraighted, affronted, afloat,
afraid, aged, aggressive, agile, agita-
ted, agog, ajar, alarmed, alienistic,
alone, amiable, amative,
ambidexteous, amicable,
amagogic, anciept-a5.
gelic, and few Other 9
Well, anyways.>we chue-chugged I
thone e. &c oee we could, sometimes g
nIoces " rs on the back seat changing $
e e,@s unexpectedly with those on the S
ora seat. and vice versa. We occa- !
ionally met teams, pedestrians and
on the road, but these
,eetinps were not frequent. After we '
ad passed a particularly bad piece OF
Dad. we rolled down into another one I
r those retreats of whose existence
gu are unaware until you come plump
oto them. Such is Elk Mountain,
Wyoming. 1t is a resort thousand
niles from nowhere, but after you get
here YOU like it because 1t is a rare
xnerience to get there. We stayed
ono enough to get gas, our bearings
look at very handsome we'll
woman who was going from
he postoffice to the hotel-about the
,nly exciting thing to do In place
Ike this-and then we started for the
vilds again. We found them-wilder
md worser than overland if anybody
,sks Won tell them that Wyoming is
,eyond the limit. Such roads, such
rails. such washouts, such mountains,
such gulches. Oh, Lord!
But then it wasn't as BAD as we are
-rying to make out. 1t was only
worse than anything we had ever en-
That's all, but that's
enough. We did not suffer particu-
arlv and our car stood it better than
we did. 1t kept going as long as we
would feed it and it didn't grumble.
At length we came to what we thought
at first glance was the boulevard
lrive from Brooklyn to COney Island.
It was the original grade used by the /
Union Pacific railroad. 1t had been ,
for a new grade and the /
natives had promptly utilized it for a /
driveway. II was delight and out
there in the wild, weary, barren, Lord, .
forsaken western land, we broke all
the speed laws of the country. There
are miles and miles of this high built
roadway, and it needs only a few dol
lars expended on it to give it the real
speedway qualities that this writer's
has already clothed It
with.
Anyway it's worth mentioning. Mer-
rily we rolled along its lovely surface
u til we had to leave it. With sorrow
we left it-because the Blue Book Ill
rected US to, not because we wanted
to, and soon we arrived at-where do
you suppose? A nice road house with
romantic French name, at the end OF
the boulevard ? No, stree. We ar
rived at W-a-m-s-u-t-t c r, Wamsutter;
that's it. So we unhitched our nor
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