Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-09
ACROSS H
BY
AUTOMOBILE
Two Tourists to Arrive in
Las Vegas in a Few Days
on Their Way to
New York.

Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 9-The eyes
Of the entire motor world are just At
present conferred on a little sixteen
horse power touring car and two dar'
i'g aatomobilists who have set out to
do what no man has ever accomplish
ed, and what the majority Of men say Is
an impossibility, namely, the feat OF
driving a motor raj across the sandy
wastes OF California. Arizona and
New Mexico. known AS the great
American desert,
The automobile Is the REQ Noun
taineer OF New York City, and the
men are Percy +. Megargel, OF the
Buffalo Automobile club and Ameri.
can Motor league, and David +. Fas-
sett. an expert mechanic from the REQ
factory at Lansing. Mich. Megargel
has twice driven an automobile ac-
rOs the continent. and has cluipped
the REQ with every appliance that
two years OF almost continuous tour
ing through unknown regions has sug-'
gested. Both he and Fassett are men
accustomed to roughing It, and per-
fectly fearless. VIII they succeed?
Is the question asked by every auto
mobilist who reads the automobile
publications and has followed the ad-
ventures of the REQ Mountaineer on
its trip from New York to Los An
geles. II they fail to conquer the des.
ert. they will have done what num-
erous others have; II they succeed
they will demonstrate that It Ia DOS
sible to take an automobile where
even the horse cannot follow.
The car that will be used on this
hazardous undertaking ia the same
stock REQ that left New York City
last August, bringing the two men
end their seven hundred pounds Of
baggage across the states Of New
York, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana, III.
inois, Iowa. Nebraska. Wyoming. Ida
no. Oregon. and California. 1t has
run In oil something like 1000 miles.
but an examination Of the engine and
running gsar shows that It is still good
for the several thousand miles Of
sandy desert. snow.clad mountain and
lava roads that separate this city from
the New York metropolis.
y hastily drafted up schedule is
given below, but should heavy rains,
SHOWS or sandstorms be encountered,
Or should the tourists be obliged to
lay, up for any length Of time, the
Keo Mountaineer will fall many days,
or even weeks, behind this schedule,
and there Is a possibility that New
York may not be redched until spring.
Saturday. Dec. 9, Needles, Cal.
Sunday, Dec. 10, Kingman, Ariz.
Monday, Dec. II, Peach Springs.
Ariz.
Tuesday, Dec. II. Seligman, Ariz,
Wednesday, Dec. Is, Williams, Ariz.
Thursday, Dec. IA. Flagstaff, Ariz.
Friday, Dec. Is, Winslow, Ariz.
Saturday. Dec. 16. Holbrook. Ariz.
Sunday, Dec. II, Gallup, N. N.
Monday, Dec. IS, Bluewater, N, n.
Tuesday. Dec. 10, Laguna, N. n. J
Wednesday, Dec. 40, albuquerque.
MN.
Thursday, Dec. Fl, ....... $3.50.
Friday. Dec. %, Las vesa4,FN. N.
Saturday. Dec. %. Ration, MN.
Sunday, Dec. "a, Trinidad, Colo.
Monday, Dec. rs, La Junts, Colo.
Tuesday. Dec. rs, Tribune. Kas.
Wednesday, Dec. n, McCracken.
Kas.
Thursday, Dec. %, Ellsworth, Kas.
Friday. Dec. 20, Junction City, Kas.
Saturday, Dec. 30, Kansas City. Mo.
Sunday. Dec, 81, ......,...........
Monday, Jan. l, ..................
Tuesday, Jan. 2, ..................
Wednesday, Jan. 3, st. Louis, Mo.
Thursday, Jan. 4, Indianapolis, Ind.
Friday, Jan. 5, Columbus, Ohio.
Saturday, Jan. s, Wheeling, W. Va.
Sunday, Jan. Z, Pittsburg, Pa.
Monday, Jan. s,
Tuesday. Jan. g.. ..................
Wednesday, Jan. 10, Philadelphia.
Thursday. Jan. IL. New York.
Santa Fe's VirQin Territory.