The Delta independent., 1921-11-04
MRS. BRINLEY WRITES
REGARDING TRIP TO COAST

lnlS OIlCe has TeCelVGO n very IN
teresting letter from Mrs. Sam Brin-
ley, who with her family left here
last summer for the coast. The fam
lily is now located at Los Angeles.
The letter follows:
We certainly had hard trip-so
many ups and downs. AS you know
we left Delta the last day of school
That was Friday noon. We hadn't
gotten ten miles till it began sprink-
ling and it kept raining till we reach
ed Grand Junction. Saturday morn
ing we started for Salt Lake City.
About "a miles out we decided we
| were on the wrong track, and as we
stood there an old couple came up
driving Buick car just like ours.
They were headed for Salt Lake and
declared we were on the right track.
So they took the lead and he surely
was fast driver. but we managed to
keep in sight of them most of the
time. But we had a fearful road-an
! old railroad grade-and it was graded
up so steep and so many little old
bridges washed out and some broken
all up, it was nasty road to get
over.
| 1t was cloudy and rained some dur
| ing the day, so we never noticed the
heat across that 75 miles of desert.
We stopped at Cisco for lunch and it
rained quite hard there. After din
ner we started out again. These old
| people seemed to be in an awful
hurry. My, that seemed to be such
/ q OF h.
ing growing and we hardly saw a
house.
J About $3.50 o'clock we came to
Thompson, Utah, and these folks were
there. We filled with water and sup
posed they had inquired the way.
| We were bound for Green River to
spend the night. 1t was 35 miles
| northwest to Green River. When we
left Thompson we found such fine
gravel road and all graded up fine.
| We hadn't seen the sun since we left
Delta. but it seemed as IL we were
| going northwest all right. This was
the prettiest drive.
| Pretty soon the sun shone just
enough SO we could see it. and here
it was at our backs. Pretty soon we
came to a town and looked all around.
but couldn't see our companions any
where. Well. we camped and when
Mr.. Brinley went up town for some
groceries he saw sign: MOAB Drug
Co" Well. he asked a man standing
there how far we we're from Moab,
and the fellow just laughed and said:
well I guess for about 1000 feet
straight up Well, you never saw a
worse beat bunch than we were. We
have never seen the old people who
left us to this day.
Well. of, course the children and
were disappointed not to see Salt
Lake, but Mr.. Brinley didn't like to
make the drive over the road just to
see the town, for we had only in.
tended to stay two or three weeks.
Sunday morning we started out and
it was cloudy and threatening rain
The garage man had told Mr.. Brinley
to be sure to take the left hand road
Well, we took the left hand road as
he had told us to, and up we went
The rockiest road you ever saw, and
steep and narrow, too. The Buick
was lust pulling on five cylinders that
morning, but we didn't know 1t till
afterward Anyway, it pulled those
steep hills fine. Some of them look
u ed impossible to make, and it just
poured rain on us while we were on
some of the highest cliffs. But there
was so much gravel and rock that a
car couldn't skid.
1 One place he came to he decided
to stop and look around little, but
the hill was too steep to stop on, and
when he backed he ran the, wheels OFF
on the side into the rocks that were
piled up along the side. We had
quite time carrying rocks and get
ting out of that place.
We Travelled 2S miles without see.
ing a soul except Mexican at the
fork of the road, and he couldn't
"savvy" anything.
After we ate our lunch we started
out and we hadn't gone more than
three miles before we came to where
II had rained, and the water was run
ming right down the road ahead of us
two and a half to three feet deep. SO
we Just stopped; and pretty soon
big Acme truck loaded with sacks of
ore from a mine close by came along.
The man nearly upset his load, but
he came up where we were and he
said, referring to the storm, I'VE call
these storms frog strangers here"
And he said we would better wait an
hour or so for the flood to run off.
| After awhile we started, Allen lead
ing the way. Mr.. Brinley got off the
tr,;1 into uorne Of those soft dirt
drifts, and in we went. and of course
we stayed
AS luck would have it, up came