, 1920-12-02
Mail Plane Lands
Near Saratoga
Plane No. 179, Enroute from Salt Lake
East, Forced to Stop to Procure
Gasoline and Lubricating Oil.

The entire population of Saratoga
and surrounding country enjoyed Il
half holiday on Tuesday, and spent the
afternoon assistingC?l Pilot Arthur s.
Cox of the government airplane mail
service, who had landed his plane in
of tile fields of the Johnson ranch
west of town.
The plane was discovered about
10 so, circling about over the Lake
Greek country. north of Saratoga, and
the pilot finally swung about a few
miles to the Johnson ranch to make6his
landing, whereupon there was Il grand
rush of all the available cars in town.
loaded with people curious to see the
big machine at close range.
Pilot Cox. who made his first trip
over this route on Thanksgiving day,
going from Medicine Bow to Rock
Springs with Il reserve plane and
thence to Salt Lake, was enroute back
to Cheyenne and had missed Rock
stop for fuel and other supplies. He
continued east and at his point. i'm the
neighborhood of no miles EAST of Rock
Springs, was forced to make Il landing.
His gasoline and oil tanks were filled
and about 3 o'clock he prepared to re-
his flight to Cheyenne. but after
several trials he decided that his en-
CINE was not working properly and
gave up the attempt, wiring to Chey-
enne for a mechanic to come here to
overhaul the machine. The mail car
ried by the plane was turned over to
Postmaster Delaney for forwarding to
Cheyenne.
The young man made Il very fortu-
nate landing in one Of the big alfalfa
fields, first touching the ground Just Il
few feet beyond an irrigating ditch
which might easily have wrecked his
plane had he struck IA few feet further
back. He then coasted about $50 yards
to the south and stopped the machine
within ten feet of the next ditch run
ming east and west.
All of Wednesday afternoon and to-
day have been devoted by Mechanic
Everett and Pilot Cox to efforts to get
tile machine in the flying notion again.
but without success. 1t is reported this
evening that Il new carburetor or
other contraptions will be necessary
before the machine can be returned to
Cheyenne under its own power. the
difficulty apparently being in the fuel
feeding arrangement, something pre-
venting the motor from getting suffL
cient gas to attain a proper speed for
flying.
Pilot Cox is a nephew of Lieutenant
Goldsborough. who was the survivor of
the airplane accident which occurred
near Saratoga in October, 1919. when
Lieutenant Wales met his death. and
he considers it Il strange coincidence
that on his first aerial trip through
the west he should land within "A few
miles of the spot where his uncle so
m~iraculOusly escaped death a little
over Il year ago.
This young man has had a varied ex-
lNiA'h't III d'iiui WITH. hul ms Itafl-
ed Il few new wrinkles since making
his first flight over this country a
week z Upon his arrival Mt Rock
Springs on the afternoon Of Thanksgiv-
ing day he was in such n condition from
the extreme cold that lie had to be as
sisted from the machine and worked
over for some time before he recovered.
ON the return trip from Salt Lake he
veered too far south and missed the
Rock Springs landing field, and for n
distance of $50 to 200 miles he travelled
over what he declares to be the bleakest
stretch Of country he has ever seen.
According to newspaper reports,
young Cox is noted as n parachute
jumper, and has made some unusual
records in that kind Of exhibitions. Re
Gently at Wildwood, n. j., he gave an
exhibition with n drop of 1900 feet and
his parachute did not open until he had
covered 100 feet OF this distance, and
he landed on the roof of n building. lie
says he is willing at any time to du-
plicate the drop for $50, If there is a
celebration where thrilling stunts are
desired.
Mother of Seven Killed at Rawlins.