Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-05-16
FRED DOLL WRITES
INTERESTING LETTER
ON TRIP TO DENVER
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in temporary bridge. both approach.
es OF heavy soggy clay.
We put her In low. gave her all
OF that 30c gas she would stand and
just as the front wheels hit the bridge
the hind ones sunk up to the gears
A county team pulled us out. On the
other side was a light car which un.
fortunately had reached there the
evening previous, before the teams ar.
rived and stuck there for Is hours.
The Cole, the Saxon and Buick all
stuck there the day before the bridge
was put in and they had to walk nine
miles to EYanson. Wyoming for teams.
They also stuck again at a wash few
miles further on but this was repaired
at the time We reached IL.
! Arrived at Evanston about 2 D. IN.
Gas &c, difficult to get information,
but those not interested never failed
TO talk about the mud and snow in
Wyoming. Their statements gave
wrong impressions. One would Judge
the roads wefe just fairly diff.
ficult but passable. whereas they were
pretty fair in spots and other spots
next TO impossible.
! Our next railroad town was Gran.
ger. 30 miles beyond Evanston. With
stout hearts and a lean purse and a
tank full of gas we pressed on. for 10
miles we hitter up" and thought the
/ SNOW" story a josh. when suddenly
We rounded a bend of a knoll and a
big snow drift ahead. Our spirits
dropped faster than we dropped into
Echo creek Cars had been through
The more cars through this icy snow,
the harder the traffic, the greater the
chance for sticking.
To leave the road and go around the
drift meant TO get stuck in the mud.
We pulitzer in low and got on to the
far end and stuck. We shoveled out
I some of the snow and placed brush
along our path TO the edge OF the
drift. We pulitzer in low and she
grabbed the brush under her chains
J and shot out OF the ice across the mire
before the wheels had time TO sink.
am not convinced | let her wheels
touch the earth until we got on higt
and dry ground
4 IL is all desert along the highway
through Wyoming. If you think Ne
vada a desert. auto across Wyoming
and Nevada will appear as "a ray OF
sun in n darkened sky.
II started TO snow and blow as The
wind blows only In Wyoming. In the
heart OF this desolate mountain, IL
miles from Evanston a beautiful drift
came into view. 1t seemed miles long
) but perhaps really 500 feet and the
. Buick car stuck in the middle of II
abandoned on the only feasible track
We had taken to the brush up on thu
: mountain side. determined to liv
!. there until conditions made II possible
Z to move. Six p. M. Buick owne
comes from coal mine three miles be
yond with miner and an old white
4 horse. The horse was left standing
and broke for home. three miles. 1
was necessary TO go after him. BY
o'clock the old plug pulled out tn,
: Buick. II was lucky we decided L
wait until morning. Lucky we got III
4 at a. m, while the ground wa:
I frozen hard and walk over drift, which
nearly racks car 10 pieces, but let's II!
go.
Two miles beyond we encountered
4 another drift of the same kind. TIL
; Buick was stuck there and the oil,
twhitc plug was trying to pull II out
Z We took to the hillside, which wa
; still frozen. but impossible wheI
thawed out. which accounts for tn
Buick bucking that drift previous.
. Twenty miles to the inland seetle
lment from Fl. Bridger. We often hell
! our breaths At points on this road
but II did not stick us. We Learned
& the Cole and Saxon had passed a
Z p. IN. the night before.
: II was Ave miles from Bridger 4
q Lyman. A few miles from Bridger
z couple OF rods of impossible mu
y halted Us. a man with human heal
q hailed us and said he had pulled th
z Cole and Saxon out with teams N
Z evening before. He pulled us out an
3 directed us to Lyman. He would a.
& cept nothing more than cigar. w
Z pulled into Lyman for gas and droy
3 on sidewalk TO keep from sticking |
u the mud.
4 We needed gas and the garage wa
! entirely out. We were greeted wit
y cheers and hand.claps by The Col
$s and Saxon people. had caugf
4 them. was some driver and ha
! some boat. they said and elected m
& pilot.
4 At the gully found between eac
7 hill was mud hole. We shot TIM e
4: on low. was pilot: I wour" suo
y them the road. Eight miles fro
? Lyman we encountered an ideal frC
Z farm. II halted us. I got out to loo
= The mlre looked bad, but we took
3 chance and bounced through, with
( ten feet of the end. The mire got a