Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1911-11-02


 cars arrive there Monday.
 Leon Shettler, of Los Angeles. who is handling the reservations on the "Howdy' special, reports to the Los Angeles papers that he has entirely sold out two complete Pullmans, in cluding all of the drawing rooms, com partments and lower berths and is now talking of taking on the third car, which will surely be done if there is any particular demand for acco', ton for from ten to fifteen more peo- pie than have alreay signified their intentions and paid their money.
 The road race will be hard test for any car. Harvey Herrick, who w'e down here last week, and who went back to Los Angeles, had the following to say to Chester Lawrence of the Los Angeles Examiner:
 We left here Sunday night and drove to San Diego. had the car which we will use in the race and was giving it the first tryout on the road. Some of the road between here and San Diego is as bad as that in Mevi- co. There was good going for awhile, and after passing Capistrano the bad stuff began. Between ther and Oc- eanside the road is very badly cut up. This section was not so bad several months ago, but it has gone to pieces during the summer, and will cut down the time to San Diego. It is impossible to make any speed at this stage. From Oceanside to San Diego the road s good and it was certainly a pleasure to open up the car on this stretch.
 "We slept several hour
 go and after breakfast pulled out at 9:00 o'clock. From San Diego it = ,fifty-one milese to Campo. The road is more or less hilly for the greater part of the distance.
 "There are three miles of mountain grade in one place and several oth- CT hills almost as long. We were in the mountains most of the time, the Cottonwood hill being low and second gear work almost all the way. There are lots of bad turns, and the drivers will have to use lots of care during the race.
 From Campo to the top of the Mountain Springs grade you are still in the mountains, but the hills are not dangerous and by handling your car carefully you can make good time.
 ''The view is wonderful from the top of the grade. In a second there flashes before you the Imperial valley, like nothing so much as an immense relief map. The descent is very rough and sharp. It is bed of rocks all the way down, there being many places where if car should go off, it would pitch several hundred feet into a rocky can yon. This brings you to Mountain Springs where you can stop for water. At the bottom of the grade you hit the Devils Canyon. The first part of the canyon is rocky and at the bottom of the canyon you encounter heavy sand and have this sand across the flat to Coyotte Wells. This sand is mostly second gear work. From the Wells we went on to the mesa. This is a rough, but hard road bed The Ma tional rode easy over this rough road, and I was able to hold it steady at 45.
 'We then dropped into the Imperial valley. These roads are very dusty, i but good as a rule. There are irrigat ing ditches on both sides of the road and if one of these should happen to break at the time of the race, there | would certainly be some trouble in getting around it.
 Here in Yuma the different commit tees and checkers have the work of the cars into Yuma and get l ting them out well in hand, and they