Arizona republican., 1910-12-24
FROM KANSAS CITY
 ID FRISCO BY AUTO
Cross Country Tourists Reach Phoe nix in Course of Pleasant,
 Uneventful Journey

Having traveled by anto from Kan sas City to Phoenix, by a route 2O9S miles long, in seven weeks, a party consisting of M. T Rowe. Bark Rowe. MT and Mrs. Truman Rowe and their little three year old daughter Eliza beth. arrived in this city late Thurs day evening. Their trip has been a most pleasant journey and they are now in the most pleasant part. of it, for they find the sunshine of Ari- zona far more enjoyable than the cold weather of Colorado and Kan sas
 Truman Rowe, owner or the big Oakland 40" in which the trip is being made, is a son of NJ. T. Rowe, while Bark Rowe is his cousin Bark and Truman Rowe own adjoining farms within a few miles of Kansas City, in the richest county of Mis- sOuri. Both make large incomes from their farms but say that they never saw any country that would beat the Salt River valley in win ter
 
 Phoenix was made with remarkab bly, little trouble of any kind. When the car reached Phoenix the two front springs were broken, having snapped between Globe and this city. This was due to the fact that Truman Rowe. who was driving, was speed ing up the machine in order to reach Phoenix in time for Mrs. Rowe to hgtn nrr9 They did not catch the train so Mrs Rowe, Knowing that she could not reach her parents by Christmas. de- cided to finish the journey by auto mobile.
 The road between Globe and Phoe- nix is good and We would have come through all right had we not been trying to make time" said Bark Rowe last evening. "The springs were broken when We hit little dikes thrown across the road to drain off rain water"
 After leaving Kansas City the au- tomObilists went across Kansas into Colorado. visiting Pueblo. Colorado Springs. Canon City and Trinidad. The first place they struck in New Mexico was Las Vegas They passed through. Albuquerque and Gallup crossed into Arizona to Holbrook and Fort Apache Somewhere between Holbrook and Fort Apache they got on the trail of the Westgard party. which they followed into Phoenix. They did not visit the Nations ranch, which was one of Westgard's stop ping places.
 Bark Rowe says that the worst road encountered was in New MeXi- co. There was also a few miles of rough road in the northern part of the territory, where their route lay over a vast deposit of lava.
 But from Holbrook to Phoenix it was just like travelling over a boule- ward" he said. The roads are fine and the weather is certainly grand. In all the seven weeks We have been on the road we have only been in two light snOwfalls and one shower"
 Excepting the run from Globe to Phoenix. no effort was made by the party to make time They stopped wherever they pleased and missed mo- thing that they cared to see.
 The Oakland is decorated with a big banner announcing to the world that it is enrOute from Kansas City to San Francisco. Much interest in the trip has been evinced in every place the ROwes passed through It is not their intention to drive back home but will remain in San Fran cisco all winter and ship the machine to Kansas City next spring. The car is being repaired at the Arizona Auto companys garage and the journey will be resumed today.
 w~Nw~ visited was the board of trade and they were amazed at the exhibit of fruits, grains and vegetables they saw there.
 ''I never saw anything to beat it. said Bark Rowe. Tt looks to me like this country will grow anything at any time"
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