The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-23
WINTER AUTO TRIP
OVER SNOW SUMMIT

JEROME, Dec. 20.-The News Of
this city contains fun description Of
the recent trip of the George A. Bre-
ner family from Salmon to their
home here after closing out the Beers
mercantile business which Mr. Bre-
mer took in exchange for Jerome
farm. Tho News article says:
They returned by automobile and
had very rough trip-in fact very
precarious one--and that il did not
turn out more seriously is due to just
good luck. The route lays over the
divide between the Snake river and
Lelnhi river at the town of Gilmore.
Some distance this side of Gilmore,
the engine Of the big Marmon car de-
yeloped waakness---in fact il had not
been working properly for some Cine
to the extent that il stalled. 4
raging blizzard of sEow enveloped the
country. There was nothing TO do
hit get back 70 Gilmore for help. So
Mr.. Bremen set out on loot, leaving
.dIs. Bremen and George, Jr., in the
car. The road had diifted full be-
hind them and Mr.. Bremen was able
70 follow the back track only By tine
frozen snow discoiored at intervals hy
a drip FROM the slight leak in the ra-
diator Of The car ln which be had used
o colored compound 80 prevent freaz-
Ing, However, he reached Gilmore
and secured o team and had the cae
pulled back to that place.
Here repairs were made and NEXT
day the journey resumed. The car
ran fairly welt for several miles as It
was down grade, but on the first re-
verse It stalled again, the garage me-
chanic apparently not having remedi-
cd matter5 much. They did not know
how far they were from relief and
the temperature was II degrees below
zero. They found shelter short dis
lance ahead in a cabin. They found
the place unoccupied but there was a
stove and wood inside and here they
spent q comfortable night.
During the night mr. Bremen motto
ed q light which looked TO be about a
quarter of a mile away. He matkee.
down the direction anG next morning
set out to visit the hahitation. After
travelling about four miles, much Of
the way uphill through snow to con-
siderable depth, he found it. A man
lived there all alone and stated that
it was seventy-five miles to Bubois,
the next town where help could be Sc
cured. He could not leave his live
stock with his team to pull the Grip
pied car that distance, AMI MIR. Bre-
mer did not by any means want to be
pulled back up the hill to Gilmore.
However, the settler had telephone
and finally got in touch with another
ranch several miles down the road
this way. This was some eleven or
sixteen miles away or something like
that, but glory be, the rancher would
send out a man and team on the re-
lief.
The Bremen family continued their
winter outing at that cabin, after
George, ST., had wallowed back that
four miles, and the team and man f.
nally showed up. They we're towed to
the ranch house and made comfort
able for another night, which made
the third one out. 1t happeneu that
the Young man Of tfris4f -was q
former soldier in the A. E. r. who
had later taken vocational training in
auto mechanics. He had never seen
Marmon car before but he believed
/ he could fix any of 'em.
| Bremen told him to go to it and
either fix it or ruin it, he didn't care
much which. So the next morning
the amateur mechanic got at the in
! side gears of that Marmon and in two
hours had it running as pretty as il
ever lid. The timer was timing jus,