Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-27
WORDS RECORD MADE BY
 PHOENIX AUTO--FOR SLOWNESS
(PhOenlx Republican,

Now that automobil,ng has gaineo
 permanent recognition in these parts.
 the making of records has become s>
 matter of more than passing note.
 For obvious reasons the records mauC
 on the Roosevelt road are of specIal
 interest. Last week a new speed rec
 ord was announced by The Republi-
 can and credited to the Mitchell car.
 1t Is now the priyelege of the The Re
 publican to announce a new slow
 speed record for the round trip has been made. and to credit it to Engi- neer Howard Reed. It Is not known just what car to credit 1t to for the | car itself has not yet returned, but is up at Roosevelt, undergoing repairs. When 1t gets back there will be an opportunity to learn its name unless
 MT. Reed paints 1t on the machine.
 But assuming that Mir. Reed, and not
 the machine, has made the run, tue
 running time is four days and seven hours, though the elapsed time Is five days and seven hours, for ne spent , one day at the dam when he wasu | even trying to run.
 Mir. Reed was signed out at the Ireclamat.on office last Wednesday
 morning at 9:07 o'clock. His only SUI perfious baggage was his false hopes of getting there the same day and
 those of Engineer Teichnan. who ac- lcompanied him as mechanician ana
 tiagman, whenever it was necessary to notify freight wagons along the way
 not to run over them as they were hung up The gentlemen signed in [ A,, l say about 4:23 o'clock That a good part of the return trip was made wftll
 a te3m of horses and finished with a railroad train, it is thought will not be held against them by the A. A. A. i However, if any penalties should at ttach they will only make the sluS record that much harder for competi- ! tors to overcome.
 | The first day out they made Desert
 Wells in fine shape and were tempteu ! to make Q try for the fast record. but after spending four hours in making i the next 1000 feet they changed their n nds and turned back toward Mesa | City. It was a down hill pull and the machine worked splendidly on the l over gear. Like a livery horse it went bully going toward home At | Mesa City they had an automobile eX 1 pert go over the machine and un- l wrinkle the knots in it and the next i morning at 8 o'clock they left Mesa i again. They reached Roosevelt in fire i shape about o'clock without a bob i ble of any sort except that somewnel C 1 between Government Wells and Fish Creek they heard the Mitchell cd, ! beating down the trail and barely had i time to get of the track and hide ill the brush when it went by.
 T want to tell you said Mir. Reed yesterday, them fellows were simply travelling when they passed us, and
 the track they left indicated that they
 only touched the ground on the two high places between Fish Creek and Government Wells"
 Friday was spent in an inspection
 Of the dam and it's auxiliary construc-
 tions, and Saturday morning the two
 engineers left for home in nigh spirlIs. The first eight miles were down grace and the machine bowled along very
 satisfactorily until it got on the first 1 serious upgrade. Then the engine got hot and burned out the connecting IUu
 whatever that is. They thought bet ter to humor than to try to drive II and turned it around, hoping 1t would go better the other way, as that had been it's disposition on the up trlp. They coasted back to the foot of the hill and u came to a dead stop.
 It was only eight miles back to Roosevelt, and Mir. Teichman yolun- | teered to walk back and get team. l He started and Mir. Reed spent nIs
 idle moments saying over the worus | he had learned in Sunday school anu
 trying to make bargains with freight
 CTS and whoever else chanced to come along with mule or horse power of | any sort. By hard work the whole 1 caravan managed to get back to
 Roosevelt again by Saturday night Sunday morning they secured palr
 of mules from Eng neer Demrick, leav ing the machine as security. and made another start, arriving at Government Wells about dark Here they fed the
 mules and got a bite to eat, after
 which MT. Reed went to the corraI l. hitch up again, leaving MT. TeichmaI 10 join him down on the main road From the corral to the main road are | two short roads, both of which leao
 into it Mir. Reed was cautioned tu | take the right one, but he forgot to
 say anything to the mules about it ! and as II was quite dark they selected | middle course. As a result they l went over pTecipice. Just how higi l it was there was no time then to cal culate, but Mir. Reed said the hole De-
 low it seemed to be as deep as Fish l Creek canyon. They reached the bot. tom h heap and MT. Reed havluA telescoped the dashboard found aim self clinging to a singletree. Appre- ciating the proximity of the tractiuiI
 touch of the mules he swung of and
 said, ''Go 1t, darn ye," and they went. For two miles and a half back up
 the road toward Roosevelt they trailed the mules and finally overlook them.
 They had run out of gasoline, too, and
 had laid up for the night, but were
 turned around again and pushed bacA down hill into Government Wells,
 where they were put up for the night.
 Their boilers were hot and MT. Reeo
 did not dare pour water into them then for fear of exploding them Ca laundering them. Yesterday morning they groomed them we'll, filled up | their tanks like Colonel Fenuer would
 his White steamer. put on the high speed gear opened the throttle and
 got into Mesa in time to catch the afternoon train for Phoenix.