The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
HAD PLENTY OF THRILLS

Some rare and remarkable experi- ences befelI the party during the tour, which was replete with thrills and ex- citement. Hundreds of splendid Gra- fleX pictures were taken at the most interesting places.
 One night the party found themselves on the Great American Desert at sum- set and realized they were off the main road. Equipped as they were, it made little difference to them whether they stayed there or somewhere else, | as their refrigerator held plenty of fresh meats and vegetables, and no hotel afforded greater comfort or more positive assurances of sleep than theirs. | Camp was made" and the stove placed
 in operation, and at dark the party
 retired
 1 About 4 a. m., MT. Barley heard a
 cracking noise outside. and on inves- | tigation found a dilapidated buck oard hitched behind mule and horse and
 half-drunken bootlegger seated there.
 Could he tell how to get to Fish Springs? He could. Would he? He
 would-if the party in the coach could
 and would give him snack. The ex- change was made, sandwiches for in formation, and the bootlegger, running whisky in defiance of the state and national laws, bunked down for the remainder of the night beside the h. diana. In the morning he gave won derful exhibition of mule-br eaking. as the working partner for the cayuse had had harness on but three times be- fore. After fight lasting fifteen minutes or more the mule skinner succeeded in trussing che of the mules feet and thus placed it hors de combat" and went calmly about the task of hitching his team
 In one place in Illinois, shortly after the start, they ran into stretch of gumbo mud which put the tires and laotor to one of the most severe tests of the entire trip. For sixty-five miles they travelled with the tires covered With chains, front and rear. Some of the pictures taken during the trip easily account for the loss of pouEd- age by the male members of the party. In the Utah salt marshes in some places the roads were so bad that hours of toll with shovel and pick in a broil- ing sun were necessary before suit able traction could be found for the wheels.
 In Wyoming is a red sand rock peak standing a short distance off the main highway. Around short turn the party came across what they declare will always be to them the most well come sight of their lives. Everywhere about them for miles and miles behind had been nothing but dead brown sand and sage, and there at their feet was veritable Garden of Eden, transformed by the government experimental farms and made to yield generously of green grasses and grain.
 DREW CROWDS EVERYWHERE
 Everywhere they went they were the center of attention and it was impos- sible to step into corner drug store Tor glass of soda and return, without finding a crowd of natives around the truck, admiring it's appointments and speculating as to the amount of fun they could have with it. At Salt Lake City, where they appeared on Labor day, they were crowded by the traffic into the big labor parade and forced to keep in line until the end, and for the entire distance they were the center of al, eyes
 In checking up the records of the journey it was found that the most mileage was made in day in South east Colorado, where they made TIC. The least was 2S miles. in Utah salt marshes. Eight mountain passes of 75OO feet or more were negotiated without trouble and at every stage of the trip the Indiana proved that it is a real truck and worthy of the nine years record which it's maker fought hard in the early days to build up.
 Mir. Barley stated that this admira- tion for the pioneers who made the trip in early days had been increased tenfold Mir. Sprayer is driving the truck on its tour of the south and ex- poets to. write of his experiences upon his return home.