The San Francisco call., 1909-04-04
AUTO IS BETTER
THAN RAILROAD
i. B. Blrey of Kings City
Claims His White Steamer
Is Cheaper

All automobile for business and
pleasure. There's nothing that can beat
it, says l.. b. Ulrey of King City. who
arrived in San Francisco yesterday with
his dust covered White steam car after
run of some. / 500 miles. Ulrey is
interested in chain of stores in Cali
fornia. Previous to this trip he had
visited the various stores by means of
the train and horse drawn vehicle.
Although the roads were very bad
and my tour of the stores Is not yet
over, remarked Ulrey. Il am already
FULLY convinced of the greater advan-
tages of this method of transportation.
My White steamer has taken me over
the route faster and at far less ex-
pense than railroad and beast. With
no mechanical troubles we have not
been delayed a second. although in
many sections the roads could not have
been worse. We passed over seven
inches of snow on the grade from Col
fax to Grass Valley, In crossing the
washouts between Wheatland and
Marysville we experienced our most
thrilling ride. The washouts were
from 10 to so feet wide and the water
three feet deep. We just had to take
a chance though; didn't know when we
Sti uCh thCIl WnctHCr we 81 20 ClcdI Oul
of sight.
I'VE have eight stores. yet to pass
on our tour home. which will include
Santa Cruz Boulder Creek, Watsonville
and Fort Romy.
THE trip started frem King City and
we drove to Coalinga by way of Priests
valley, crossed the Lewis creek So
times to the valley and crossed the
Wartham canyon about the same num-
Der of times getting down to Coalinga.
Our White was the first automobile to
get through this season.
From Coalinga we passed through
the following towns on our wayS to
San Francisco: Tplare, Upton, Pixley,
Delano, Granada. Porterville, Exeter,
Dinuba. Orosi, MADEIRA. LIE Grande, Tur-
lock, Modesto, Stockton, Sacramento,
Loomis, Newcastle, Auburn. Colfax,
Grass Valley, Wheatland, Marysville.
Gridley, Chico, Tehama. Red Bluff, Cor
ming. Germantown. Maxwell, Colusa,
Woodland. Fairfield, Napa. Petaiuma,
Healdsburg. Geyserville, Santa Rosa
and Sausalito"
Uirey was accompanied by his daugh-
ters and f. T. Cunningham.
The American automobile association
has drawn up and made public the
-----------.t. schedule of sane
What the A. ton lees 10
A. 4. Demands fsst syents; connitsae ,The cSn Sns
issued them and
they read as follows: For road race
where a grandstand is erected, the fee
track meeting. including a "a hour
race, $3.50; hin climb. $50; an endur-
ance contest, 500, and for road or bench
speed trials a fee of 800 will be
charged Ali clubs affiliated with the
American automobile association will
be entitled to a reduction of 90 per
cent OF. these rates.
The new Speedwell car. which is the
latest addition to the local market, has
..-------... made many friends
speedwelI Car by the way 1t per
Make. FRIEND. one Of the sur
prises and will be
one OF the cars to be seen in the coming
contests to be held in the state. Man
ager Lynch In speaking of the contests
said yesterday that he would enter the
car In every contest that came up, to
show the coast just what the car
could do.
George e. Johnson of the Fisk rub
Der company, in discussing the automo-
s. bile outlook. said
fEnrrx Tourfu~ yes e + that
H"r's TS;. Year California and the
..---@-4--- Pacific coast would
in the automobile trade. If he could
judge from tha- amount Of business al
ready booked. 1t was more than q
surprise, he said, the number OF early
delivery orders that had been placed