Arizona republican., 1912-06-13
 TOUR |S OVER
Big Studebaker Procession From the Grand Canyon Began to Reach Phoenix About 6 O'Clock Last Evening

One of the most daring automobile
 tours ever attempted in America is fin
 ished, and it's story is written on the
 brightest page of ArizOna's automobile
 history, for yesterday evening the
 Studebaker Touring party arrived in
 Phoenix after a nine days trip over desert and mountain to the Grand Can yOn of lhe Colorado. The first car ar rived about o'clock and the others came during the early evening hours.
 Wayland Wood is the Manager of the Arizona Motor company and it is his business to sell Studebaker cars and his privilege to enjoy life. So a long time ago he dreamed a dream He saw a long line of Studebaker machines crossing the desert and winding along the rim of the Grand Canyon; he saw them climbing higher than any noun tain east of the Rockies and circling range almost as high as Pikes Peak; he saw the motorists royalty enter tained in every town along the route by the most generous boosters in Ari- J southwestern manager for the Stude- baker corporation and told him of the vision and together they planned so well that within the past ten days the dream has come true.
 They said to the owners of Stude- baker cars. come with us and find out what your car can do. Come with us and rediscOver the state of Arizona.
 With the many side trips the tour was more than seven hundred and fifty miles in length and every promise of achievement for the cars and entertain ment for the tourists was fulfilled
 The decision as to the prizes has not been made, but the cup win go either to D. D. Akin of Wickenburg or to c. G. Riebling of Prescott. MT. Akin should have been granted special priv ileges for he drove car number 13 After making the 10 mile run from Prescott yesterday old 13" rompei back over the hills for fifty miles to the Monarch mine near Wickenburg last night on the tour No. 13 made sixteen miles per gallon of gasoline. MT. Akin says that the tour is the greatest thing that ever happened and the tourists the finest crowd he ever knew.
 Riebing in car nine has been picked winner from the start. He has no name for his machine because he thinks that F. NJ. F alone is good enough for any car. He says of the tour: Tt is the best 1 ever took part in and I have been in several"
 Many other cars made good records. In her second trip over the route with in a month Wayland Woods pathfind CT showed as much spirit as the newest of cars Mir Northcutt's Betsy" and J. R. Huff's press car, otherwise the Joker, also showed ability to get up and go.
 The run from Williams to Ash Fork did not give much opportunity for trials of speed The road is fairly well graded but it is also very new. Some day it may be a very excellent boulevard but as yet it knows nothing of the minor courtesies of highways.
 From Ash Fork south the tourists travelled the route by which they had journeyed north a week ago, except tha cars followed the railroad from Jerome Junction into Prescott instead of going by the western road. About twelve miles south of Ash Fork the party turned aside to see the Cathedral caves. The north cave has a sharply arched ceiling and the floor rises in the center with a less abrupt slope. The l ceiling is hung with stalactites thous- 1 ands of them as small as pencils and | many several feet in length. In places l columns use from floor to ceiling and 1 often the stone is cOored with the soft | blues and reds of the Canyon. This i cave is from fifty to seventy-five feet | wide anl about seven hundred feet 1 long The other cave is very similar to l the one described except that it's walls | are not decorated with such fanciful 1 in stone.
 The trips going to the canyon and | were largely over different | routes only about one hundred and l forty miles of the road being travelled 1 twice.
 The tour was by no means purely l local affair as the names here given | will show. Colonel R. w. Jemison of | Macon, Georgia was with the party as l for as Williams and Miss Eva North 1 cutt came all the way from Spring l field, Illinois to go with tourists. w Henley of Tucson made the run with | his family and E. F. Thompson, the | Kelly Racine Tire man from Los An | geles was along to boost his rubbers.
 The members of the Pioneer Stude- , baker Sociability Touring club of Ari- | zona, which includes every m ember of | the touring party, are.
 Eugene Brady O'Neiil, Pres, Phoe | nix: Jesse F. Blake, secretary, Tempe. |
 Charles K Scholey, Frank c. Whis | nan C. G. Riebling, Prescott; Robert |