Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06
SELECTING ROUTE
FOR AUTO CARAVAN
TO SAN FRANCISCO
Representative of the Shank
Auto Company of Cald-
well Has Strenuous Trip
Over Mountain Roads.

! ONCI NAOullG6lu kOdQS.
Caldwell, May 5.-No little interest
is shown in this city in the automobile
itinerary which Is being made by
Harry r. Mcpherson, Salt Lake
newspaper man and Harry Travis, of
the Shank Auto company of this city,
under the direction of Harry Wilson,
also of this city and president of the
Shank Auto company. from Salt Lake
to Denver for the purpose of determ-
ming whether the famous motor car
avian of the San Francisco Advertising
club, the caravan of 28 machines.
which leaves San Francisco May 20,
for ST. Louis shall go from Salt Lake
| to Denver via the Midland trail or
the Lincoln trial. The unique honor
of paving the path for the great auto
caravan has been designated to a Cole
3" Scout car, President Wilson also
having the agency of the Cole auto
I mobile company in this. section, and
being in control of branch office in
Salt Lake. The caravan is scheduled
to arrive in Salt Lake May 25.
Through the great importance Of its
mission, this car comes ,>into national
prominence and secures for the COM
pany wide publicity throughout not
only the west but the east.
DIFFICULTIES OF TRIP.
In commenting upon the difficulties
encountered upon the trip which was
| commenced April 80 and those still
confronting the party after it had
| reached Evanston, Utah, May 2, Mr..
Mcpherson said:
Il don't know anything about the
habits of mice and SO am unable to
corroborate Burns in his statement
about their plans. But l do know and
so does Harvey Travis. that the best
laid plans of men gang aft agley.'
1T happened like this. You see we
left Salt Lake on the afternoon of
Tuesday. May l, in the big Cole eight
scout car to start to Denver We look
ed at the map. Evanston on that road
log was but a short distance away. 1t
was 2:So p. m. when we left.
Wen try to make Evanston to-
night and Rock Springs Wednesday,
suggested, and Mr.. Travis, the driver
of the machine, agreed that it could
easily be done.
President Wilson Is not with us.
that is, President Harry Wilson of the
Shank Auto company. It's good
thing he isn't or that attack of pneu-
monia he suffered just before the
start, which prevented his going,
might have developed into something
serious.
But l dlgress. AS to those (best
laid nlanSA II ha bot
instead of reaching Rock Springs to-
night, we actually at about G. X p m.
reached Evanston.
You see, the King B Is an auto, |
not a flying machine or motorboat. |
That's why we were held up. If the
powerful machine had been able to
swim or fly we might have gotten
across those bridgeless creeks. 1t |
seems that in that portion of Utah in
which is located Echo canyon and the |
Utah Wyoming line, it is the gentle |
rivulets just on the Utah side of the
custom of the county and state road
officials to let the weather care TO: the
bridges. When they are washed out, |
they are allowed to stay washed out.
Maybe the road officials have some |
sort of agreement with the gentle |
highwaymen, the farmers, who employ |
horses to drag your cars out for a GER |
tain stipend. 'Quien sabe?
BRIDGES OUT.
AT any rate, we encountered three
different places on the Lincoln high |
way in Utah where bridges had been
gone for ten days or more and no eff
fort made to replace them, even tenn
porarily. For that reason. despite the
fact that the roads in general are
boulevards over which from twenty
five to forty miles per hour may be
made, it Is to be suggested to auto
tourists at this time not to try to
drive through to Evanston, at least
until some bridges are put In.
We met at least one transconti-
mental party and a flock of local motor
lists. who were held up the same as fe
were, until they could get some farm
er to pull them across the swollen and
bridgeless streams. Aside from that
fact and the additional one that the
passes we shortly must face in Mon
tana are declared to be snowridden.
everything is lovely with the San
Francisco AID club scout party and
though somewhat delayed we are. go
ing to Denver and back. or bust.
Il am going to try to make the next
wire read from Rock Springs unless
we have further need of horsepower"
The caravan of 20 cars which is to ;
make the final trip for the purpose of
San Francisco as the 1918 ,
city.
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TWO NEW OPERATORS
FOR TELEPHONE COMPANY ,