Argosy All-Story Weekly, Vol. 146 No. 4 — page 134: what you’re looking at

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ore 14 YY Feu ) te Sal By EARL C. McCAIN CASUAL visitor, arriving m Salt Lake City on the morning of June ro, and unacquainted with the An- niversary Endurance Race, would have been amazed at the scene in front of Utah’s great capital building. Across the wide street before the State house were lined up twenty-six horses and riders, awaiting the signal that would start them on the six-hun- dred-mile run to Cheyenne. The race was to be the longest and great- est endurance contest ever held, and never had the West—in fact, the entire country— shown such interest. It marked the anni- versary of the discovery of the Great Salt Lake by Captain Ridger, and so far as pos- sible, the horses would follow the same route taken by the valiant explorer as he returned to the East. were reasons for the unusual in- as well as for the great number of entries in the race. The true Westerner has ace lowes a come to the section in or the history of the the creature that next to man was respen- sible for the winning of the West. Another reason was the large prize of- fered. When the race had first been pro- posed, the two cities at the ends of the route had each agreed to pay twenty-five thou- sand dollars to form a purse; but at that time the idea was in its infancy. Since then additional prizes by racing associa- tions, newspapers, and cities along the route had been added to the original purse until it totaled more than had ever been offered on any single race. While the horses, with more or less shift- ing about, stood ready to start, the Gover- nor of Utah passed from one to another, handing to each rider a small envelope. In addition to the State seal, each envelope bore the same address, “‘ To the Governor of the State of Wyoming.” To the rider, who, in front of the capital at Cheyenne, should first deliver the envelope entrusted to his care would go the greatest honor that both States had ever bestowed upon @