Arizona republican., 1909-03-13
.OLDSMOb|LE'S |. CRUCIAL TEST TripFrom Phoenix toG|obe 0n High Speed Gear SUCCESS IN BIC LETTERS An Enviable Achievement
 For the Machine and a
 Fine Demonstration of
 Skill by Hughie Hughes
 the Expert Driver.

owing to the lateness of the return Thursday night of the party that went to Globe and back on the Oldsmobile demonstration trip, only the bare an nouncement of the success of it could be made in yesterdays issue Assum ing that there will be interest in fur ther details of the excursion. the fol- lowing recital will be made with great CT particularity:
 The party was composed of MT and Mrs. F. A. Hilderbran, Hughie Hughes. a world famous chauffeur and record breaking automobile racer. and rep resentative of The Republican. The trip was not an effort for a speed record. Even had that been desirable it would not have been permitted over the Roosevelt road for the very suffi cient reasons given by Engineer Hill when he placed ban upon that grow ing practice. Nevertheless. there are no prohibitive orders covering the level country at this end of the road or that portion of the route between Roosevelt and Globe. both of which are in part quite speedy tracks under good weather conditions. and very bad ones at some other times. owing to dust or mud as the case might be. Also, the return trip was fin a gen eral way much more down hill than up hill, and fortunately very few teams were met, especially on the road be tween Roosevelt and Mesa City. There were probably not over a half dozen big teams altogether. while on the up trip twenty-six freighters. carriage and stage were met or passed. The return trip was made late in the after noon. just late enough to finish the mountain road by daylight, and in places where the curves were in sight for long distance ahead. and seen to be clear. the driver was quite imi- tative of the hare rather than the tor toise
 Between Globe and Roosevelt; on the return trip. the first third of the dis tance was very muddy, though down hill Then came a climb to the sum init of the high line road. a coast to the bed of Pinto creek and hard. fast drive across the quite heavy mesa lands into Roosevelt. The Globe Roosevelt road was a race with. storm and naturally the storm wasn't given any the best of it. the fear being that the snow on the Pinal mountains. melted by the two days rain. might swell Pinto creek beyond fording. The storm lost
 All these facts. and others of lesser importance. contributed to the making of the entire trip from Globe. through to Tempe in a very creditable time. though not d record, as against some of the dry weather trips that have been made. As previously explained. on account of the Salt river, the trip began and ended in Tempe The time made is given just for curiosity. be- ing neither dangerously fast nor ridic- ulOusly slow
 Going trip: Left Tempe at 1:1O on Sunday: dined in Mesa City and got away at 2:1O; arrived at Fish Creek station at 5:20; left Fish Creek station Monday at S:20 a. m, stopped a few minutes in Roosevelt, and reached Globe at 12:40 ?. m.
 Return trip: Left Globe Monday at 12:30: stopped at Roosevelt perhaps twenty minutes and left at 3:3O; were detained few minutes by a freighter with a broken harness at a point where he could not be passed: arrived at Fish Creek station about o'clock: left Fish Creek at 5:O7: left Mormon Flat at 5:52: left Mesa at S:O7: ar rived at Tempe at $40