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"Seeing America First
Interest In the western auto tours
has been stimulated by reason of the
action of the department in charge of
national parks in permitting auto
traffic through the parks this year
throughout the entire season that the
weather conditions will allow the safe
use of cars, and there is a concerted
movement among the organizations
which have in hand the construction
and maintenance of cross-continental
auto routes to take care of the gen
erally anticipated large auto traffic
across the United States during the
hot months.
The principal auto traffic of the
United States going west is carried
over the central western routes (the
Pike's Teak route, the Midland trail
nd the Lincoln highway.)
These great trans-continental high
ways converge at Salt Lake City and
Ogden, I'tah, and continue as the Lin
coln highway to the coast. From
Salt Lake City and Ogden the Salt
Lake-Vcllowstone highway runs in a
generally northerly direction through'
Utah and Idaho, and carriej the com
bined traffic of these route to the
Yellowstone National park. Auto
travel entering the park from the
northern routes is picked up at Yel
lowstone entrance and carried to l'o
catello, Idaho., the junction of the
Idaho-Pacific route to the northwest,
and on to the branching off point on
the Lincoln highway to be routed east
or west, as the case may be.
Along it and its auxiliary high
ways, leading into every section of
northern Utah and souther n and cen
tral Idaho may be had some of the
finest fishing, minting and scenic sec
tions of the great northwest, second
only to, and in a great many instances
rivalling the interest features of the
great Yellowstone park.
Upwards of $5,000,000 have been
spent to place the highway from the
Great Salt Lake to Yellowstone in
perfect condition for auto travel. An
organization designated as the Utah-Idaho-Yellowstone
Highway associa
tion, composed of prominent citizens
of the two states, work in conjunction
with the constituted legal authorities
in the seventeen counties along the
route to patrol and maintain the high
way to accommodate the heavy traffic
over it.
Along the highway from Great Salt
Lake to Yellowstone, through Utah
and Idaho is so much to see that it
all cannot be taken in on a single
trip. From Salt Lake City, through
Ogden, past Ogden and Weber Can
yons, the long white road leads to
Brigham City through intensively cul
tivated farm and orchard land, which
hugs the base of the snow-capped
Wasatch range and gently declines
to the great lake shimmering to the
west then over the tinkling mountain
streams and rtH, green stretches of
the sunkissed Cache and Malad val
leys, that climb clear into the foot
hills of the adjoining mountain range,
a beautiful landscape of city and vil
lage and fertile farm land, criss
crossed with the never-ending irriga
tion streams or by way of the great,
deep Bear lake and the fertile fields
of Hear Lake valley, until the pictur
esque drive through Portneut can
yon, along the placid reaches of
the river and by water fall and beaver
dam, farmhouse and dairy ranch, be
tween the tall mountains and nigh,
abrupt lava phalanxes brings you into
busy, bustling, growing Pocatello, and
its great Oregon Short Line railroad
establishment, the hub of the Hard
man system.
In succession you crosi the Fort
Hall Indian reservation, riding along
the old Captain Bonneville trail, and
f ass through the prosperous cities of
the great upper Snake River valley,
the granary of Idaho. Off to the
right the Tetons rear themselves
above the clouds and away to the west
the Sawtoothi form a purple back
ground for the setting of the beauti
ful picture of the valley of the wind
ing and tortuous Snake,
Before you realize you find yourself
climbing into ttjc foot hills and civi
lization slipping away. The highway
drops down into Warm river, climbs
up on the divide, and you look down
in the yawning canyons of the Snake
river and Warm river, two white
trips of foaming waters, dashing to
ward the Columbia. Far below the
valley stretches and spreads before
you like a multicolored fan. Ahead
and a half mile to the left are the
two great falls of the upper Snake.
The highway is now traversing the
Targhee National forest, and soon
emerges into the Island park country,
the home of Mrs. Harnman, on the
Morgan - Guggenheim - llarriman es
tates. Judge A. S. Trude of Chicago,
and others, who maintain large club
houses, summer places and temporary
camps.
Across Island park the highway
leads through dense woods, inter
spersed with open parks and mead
ows, You cross stream after stream,
clear and sandy bottomed, full of
scurrying trout. You pass Big Springs,
where the huge ipnngs gush from
the mountainside to form the head
waters of the Henry's Fork of the
Snake river, cross the iMiake river at
Flat Hock (if some inviting camp spot
has no! vet caught your fancy), de
bouch into Henry's l ake flat, at the
bae of grand old Sautrlle mountain,
etkitt llrnrv's lke, atcemt the pat
over the Montana Idaho divide and
dn.p dawn into ellow ttiinr, the
wfttcrn rntrarue M the park.
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tricts.of Utah and Idaho I can take
you to soil which is virgin, upon which
the foot of man has never trod. From
the front door of my humble cabin in
Island park (the country lying along
the western border of the National
park) ten miles from the sumptuous
summer home of Mrs. K. H. llarri
man, one mile from the Oregon Short
Line railroad running to the Park, and
two and a half miles from the Salt
Lake Yellowstone auto highway
the moose trail still leads down to the
landing on Buffalo river, and many
times as I have met the early morning
park flyer below at the mile post I
nave felt that strange, unaccountable,
hair-raising feeling creeping along my
spine as I have sensed the presence
ot some wild animal. The moose
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Depends
on the Battery
A motor car needs a reliable battery!
as much as a baseball team does.
In both cases the battery must bo
good to begin with. In the case of a
motor car that means a Willard.
Next, a battery must bo kept in
condition to produce results, Willard
Service takes caro of that, at tho
least expense.
Make ture of a cox! sravm by brir.nlng
your battery to u for insiKClion. We'll
plan your ulirdule en4 Insure a g4 aver
ujc for your itwtbg rhJ lihtLn.
Nebraska Storage
Battery Co.
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Free inspection of c:f
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Utah and Idaho to the Ytllowgtone National
Park till : l t By C. C. DIETRICH
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wander into the dooryard, the bob
cat screams pierce the cool, refresh
ing air of IbUihI park nights and as I
lie on my front porch I can still hear
the splash of the elk and moose in the
foggy clatter ot the stream below.
Law and order prevails. The tillable
land is made to blossom like the rose,
the dairy animal browses in place of
the buffalo, but the cattle still wander
to the jimher line, and the indescrib
able beauties of nature remain a pic
turesque background for the peaceful
scenes. The great mountain ranges
jealously guard against the encroach
ments of civilization, the coyote is
being exterminated, but the elk are on
the increase. The trout are abundantly
plentiful in the same limpid, clear
streams, and the law protects and pre-
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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BfcK: MAY
serves the splendid duck and chicken !
shooting, which attracts the sports-1
men of the continent. Numbers of j
Indians I now know by name, and !
acknowledge their friendly salutation
as they give me more than half the!
highway for my auto something
which the white man sometimes does
not do. The railroad and the auto
highway creep along the bottoms of
the canons and now and then nego
tiate the lower passes, and while there
is hardly a section of the great west
that is not now accessible to the auto
tourist, the solemn grandeur of the '
mountains, the forests and the undc
filed sanctity of the secluded valleys
and parks is here, forever to remain.
Mitchell Sales
Manager Makes Trip
To Pacific Coast
0. C. Friend, general sales man
ager of the Mitchell-Lewis Motor
company, is away on an extended
trip to the Pacific count. The big
increase in the Mitchell demand
the necessary increase in the produc
tion, the coming out of the new
model and the preparing of planji
for a continuation of the aggressive
Mitchell selling campaign have been
factors in delaying his annual west
ern tour to the big Mitchell distribu
ters on the Pacific coant.
With the big Mitchell advertiiiing
campaign under full way, the in
creased consumer demand has
brought the largest dealer demand
from the Pacific coa.st the Mitchell
has ever experienced, and with the
rapid broudening of the Mitchell
selling organization on the coast has
come the necessity for closer super
vision that only Mr, Friend with his
wido experience can give.
Mr. Friend will upend some three
weeks going1 over the field carefully
with the Mitchell representatives,
Btudylnj? the selling problems pecu
liar to the west coast states and re
distributing the factory representa
tion, something made necessary by
tho broadening field of demand for
the Mitchell product.
Ogden, Salt Lake City and Denver
are booked for visits on his return;
in the meantime he is keeping the
long distance and telegraph wires
hot with insistent demands for cars
and then more cars.
OKLAHOMA PAYS A BONUS
TO GET A CHANDLER CAR
"That shows just how they feel
in Oklahoma towards the Chandler
Six," said W. S. Adams of the Card
Adams Motor company, Lincoln,
Neb. The facts that inspire the head
ing are these: The first roadster re
ceived by the Chandler Six company
of Kansas City, Mo., wus delivered at
Haone t'liwe,
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28, 1916,
once to J. P. Wilkin, a live stock
dealer. Three days, later Newell
Barnsdale of Bartlesville, Okl., saw
it and paid Mr. Wilkin a premium of
$100 for the sake of getting immedi
ate delivery.
"Delco-Light" to Be
Pushed by Hundreds
Of Live Salesmen
The Delco, which had such an Im
portant part in the automobile in
dustry by being the pioneers in the
making of starting, lighting and
ignition equipment, have brought out
a new product. The new product is
"Delco-Light," an electric plant for
farm, village and suburban homes,
They have created an entirely new
organization to handle the new
product and over 700 or 800 sales
men will each use automobiles to
carry the new product for demon
stration purposes right out into the
fi'-hl where t is to go. Every owner
of a Delco-equipped car who lives
in the country will be interested in
seeing a deiiioniti ation of this new
plant.
"Delco-Light" can be disposed of
by putting it in the basement or in
an outbuilding just like Delco equip
ment is disposed of by putting it
under the hood, and there it sets
doing its duty day after day, as the
automobile drivers know.
Charles, E. Wagner, general agent
for Nebraska district, has opened up
an agency headquarters and display
room at 1903 Farnani street.
BICYCLE CLUBS BEING
FORMED ALL OVER COUNTRY
Bicycle riding has increased to such
an extent during the last two years
Refined from PENNSYL
VANIA CRUDE, the best
oil in the world.
In ft clear, clemi motor oil. Con
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highest lulirlratiriu efficiency.
Given greater mlleaKe and greater
power.
Write for booklet, "Automobile
Lubrication."
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A Known Motoi'
IN the midst of extravagant claims for new theories
and untried ideas, the Chandler motor stands free
from any hint of experimentation. From coast to
coast men know what this motor does, men know
they can depend upon it, men know its service is
enhanced by the fact that it is a proven mechanism,
perfected through three years of conscientious
refinement
And Chandler bodies, the new big seven-passenger
touring car body, and the new four-passenger roadster,
are the most beautiful motor car bodies of the year.
Ssvrn-rawnArr Tourin Car
Four! N satnrr Kcvkji tor
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CARD-ADAMS MOTOR CO.
DUtrlbutort for Ncbrnika, Writrrn
low iul Smth DakoU
ciiANDu:n motou cAn coMrArrv axvr.LArjD,
that the prediction of 1,000,000 new
bicycles this season bids fair to come
true.
Bicycles are lighter, cheaper and
better than when the fathers of the
present generation of youngsters
made their weekly club runs on the
old heavy "safeties" over rough, un
even roads.
Already "bike" clubs are being
formed all over the country 'and a
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revival of weekly cmli runs will be
seen on all of our u-ioniobilc roads
this season.
The Fisk Rubber company of Chtc
opce Falls, Mass., is taking special
interest in boys' clubs. It has ap
pointed a club chief, who is sending
instruction dooks on lornunx liuu l
as well as banners, arm bands and
other paraphernalia without charge to
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