Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-19
AUTO TOURISTS ON
10000 NILE SPIN
Radcliffe Party Which Passed
Through Albuquerque Leaves
Phoenix for Los Angeles.

Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 1S.-Having
Travelled over 10000 miles by auto
mobile since the first day of July,
a party consisting of George, William
and d. II. Radeleff and j. Sinclair.
arrived in Phoenix Monday night.
leaving Yesterday for California. They
came and went in a 20 horse-poW-
err Ford. in which they had covered
5000 miles of their journey.
If written out in full, the story OF
the trip made by them would be one
of the most thrilling in the history OF
Iautomobiling. They had remarkably
little trouble. considering the rough
country over which they Travelled. The
most remarkable fact in connection
with their trip is that they ran the
with only one puncture. When they
reached Phoenix the tires loked al
most as good as new.
George Radeleff is the owner of
the machine. With his two brothers
he started from Porterville, a short
distance rom Los Angeles, on the
first day of July. At that time they
did not have the same machine they
finished with. but another of exactly
the same make and model, purchased
from Roger Stearns.
First the Radeleff brothers vent
through northern California and up
into Oregon. There they earned that
there was no road over which they
could expect to run their machine to
reach the plains east of the Rockies,
SO they sold their Ford and went by
rail to Aberdeen. s.. ID.
At Aberdeen they purchased n
other Ford like the one they had sold,
having come to the conclusion that it
was the best car for the kind of a
trip they were making With their
bed tied on behind, food and cooking
utensils in the tonneau, they set out
to complete their automobile trip.
Wherever night overlook them they
|camped, securing gasoline and OIL
whenever they passed through q town.
Not once did they have to take their
machine in a garage or hire a farmer
to haul them out of the mud. More
than once they got stuck, but they
always managed themselves to haul
the car TO a spot where its own pow
er would move it.
1--WE had m puncture," said George
Radeleff. THAT was on a boulevard
coming ont Of FL Paso. We stuck a
nail in one tire
The Radeleffs passed through South
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, penetrated
Illinois. went back through Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado. New Mexico via
Albuquerque, and Texas. At FL Paso
they crossed over the river into Mex
leo, but as the customs officials took
All their oil and gasoline away from
them they didn't go far.
II was at Eel Paso that the Radeleffs
picked up Sinclair. He was with an
other automobile party going to Los
Angeles. but the machine was broken
down and ne threw in his fortunes
with the C~alifornians-
we have had a splendid trip, and
enjoyed every miuuto Of It, said
George Radeleff TO the correspondent.
"Of course it would not have been so
ENJOYABLE had we had trouble with
our machine. but we didn't have any
difficulty worth speaking OF. Every
one saws that our tires have held out
remarkably well. / think this trip Of
ours has demonstrated that il is per-
fectly safe TO go camping in an auto.
Radeleff said that his machine,
sometimes went $50 and $40 miles a
day on good roads. The worst travel
ing they had was between Tucson
and Phoenix. They covered the dis
lance in two days. stopping Sunday
night at Florence. Between Red Rock
and Florence there were hundreds OF
Yards where the road was nothing
more than a sheet of water Never
theless they sloshed through. dropping
into innumerabie chuck holes and
getting stuck several times In the
mud.