Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-25
TOUGH JOURNEY IN
AUTO THROUGH
T|JERAS
Motorists Land Safely in AIbu-
querque After Battling Snow
and Wind for Many Hours,
Running Out of Gasoline,

With his big forty horsepower
automobile, chugging and coughing
beca use II was compelled ia run with
power furnished by coal oil instead
of the more respectable gasoline,
President F.. b. Schwentker, OF the
Commercial club returned late Friday
night from a months business trip to
the Pecos valley in the interest of the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, Of which he is general agent
Tor New Mexico. Mr.. S~chwentker
was accompanied on the return trip
by Mel Summers and said yesterday
that Mel can not only reach higher
and stoop lower than any man in Al
buquerque, but that he is a wonder
at pushing and hauling a stubborn
automobile around forty miles from
nowhere. The motorists left Ros-
well in the face of a sixty-mile-an-
hour wind storm, but managed to
reach Vaughn in an eight-hour run
Leaving Vaughn the next morning,
the snow was an inch on the level.
The snow was deeper as they APP
preached the mountains and when
the car began to dig through the east
end of Tijeras canyon, the beautiful
was hub deep. Six hours were con-
sumed battling through Tijeras can
Won ~ DNi0AtlHIl AZ liz AAAA6
Of Tfjeras the machine stopped, gave
a few final coughs and peacefully ex-
pired. as dead as a Santa Fe engine
with all flues leaking. Jose Domin-
guez, the solitary storekeeper at
Tijeras rae heard of gasoline. but
never carried it in stock. But he had
coal oil, a barrel OF it. And then
Mr.. Schwentker suddenly remem-
bered that coal oil could be success
fully used in an engine, If IL were
hot enough. The engine was still red
hot, all right, ana It was filled with
coal oil. and. rather strange to say,
the machine began to move in a very
satisfactory manner The remaining
trip to Albuquerque. twenty-five
miles. was made in good q lie and
without further incident the gas gen
orator having been filled with coal
oil as fuel for the headlights.
Everybody Wants Statehood.
Mr. S~chwentker spent n month In
the Pecos valley and talked with hum
dreds Of representative business and
professional men while on the trip.
.oThe sentiment in favor of state
hood is so strong" said Mr.. Schwent-
ker Yesterday, that it Is remarkable
TO find a man who isn't going to vote
for the constitution The constitu-
fiop Is. in my Oplnltn, Ebink W bt
carried by a large majority I'm HAYES
ana adjoining counties. There is so
little opposition to the constitution
that it is hardly worthy of notice"
According to Mr.. Schwentker the
pecos valley is one Of wonderful pos
sibilities, which are beginning to be
realized more each day. At Carlsbad,
the Carlsbad dam, on the
Pecos river. things are unusually
PROSPEROUS. he said. and farmers this
wear have cleaned NJ from $50 TO
an acre on cotton, and from $50
to sll5 an acre on alfalfa. making
two cuttings of alfalfa hay and then
letting the third crop go TO seed
conditions are not found only
IN one or two patches Of ground. but
farms of several hundred acres
each.
Nr Schwentker said hat an IN
is now in Roswell to investi-
gate the matter Of reinstating the
Vaughn automobile mail service, M
that il will be satisfactorily
snd the service resumed In
near future.
From albuquerque. through Tijeras
TO willard. Vaughn, and
thence To Roswell. is a distance OF
22s miles, according to the speedo-
meter on the S~chwertker machine.