Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — MOTORS INSTEAD OF DOGS [ARTICLE]

MOTORS INSTEAD OF DOGS

Trip Over the Cascades in a Gasoline Sleigh Was a Distinct Success. A spectacular trial trip was recently xpade across the Cascades In a motor sleigh, and a number of photographs, taken at various stages of the journey, are reproduced In Popular Mechanics. The achievement of the motor sleigh was almost as amazing as that of the first army tank, conquering, as it did, all kinds of obstacles. Skimming the surface of snowfalls, old or new, the strange little vehicle broke its way through primeval passes with never a stumble. The rescue of an automobile, hopelessly stalled in the drifts of Snoqualmie pass, was a mere incident in its progress. Crossing a deep gully on a pair of hemlock poles was but one of the day’s adventures. The intended substitution of the motor sleigh for the dog drawn sledges of Alaska’s snowbound post trails means more to the people of that great territory than may be generally realized. Jack London and others have limned the malemute as a romantic figure; but the followers of the trail know well he is never that. It is the elimination of much human hardship, as well as canine inefficiency, that recommends the gasoline method.