Arizona republican., 1912-06-06
It Was a Panoramic De light to All, Though Only Seven of the Cars Ar rived in Prescott Before Midnight
(By Geroid RobinsonA

Speedome ters clicking off a mile for every two minutes by the clock. AL hambra. Glendale, Peoria, sailed uD out of the distance and faded into a mist of dust behind
 Soon came the desert studded with ci- ant Sahuaras and golden bright with the blooms of the myriad Palo Verde trees and always the steady climb to- ward the state blue mountains on the distant horizon. Curving stretches of desert road as smooth as asphalt inter- spersed with short sections where the cars bounded and lurched like mal broncos. flew by to the motors bass rumble
 At Marlncttc, way out on the desert k. r. DaVie is setting out thousands of orange trees and watering them with | a pump, but the motorists did not bdc to watch Marinette grow" If the prospects of this district are good. the main street of the future city of Mar inette certainly is nOt-in fact it was about the most eXecrable piece of road that the party encountered Many smooth desert miles. faw moments of heavy grinding in the sands of the Agua Frias agua Jess bed. and BeardsIey, the "wooliest" town in l the west. appeared on the horizon More wool is annually shipped from 1 BearIsl1y than from any other town in | Arizona
 | The cars took water at Hot Springs Junction and then proceeded on their I way.
 The way to Wickenburg led up hin and down. but more up than down for l the Path to Prescott" is, for the most part, an uphill pull A few mo- 1 ments in the streets of Wickenburg where gas oil, water, and other things as necessary were received-then on again with the motors singing the song of the open road.
 The racemaker which had been ov- | crtaken Ly Nos. and in Wicken- burg was given fifteen minutes leewav and the other two cars then started in pursuit with no other machines vet in sight. it was heavy going in the sandy creek bottom of the Hassayampa for q few mines but soon the cars climbed mile of the road wound away every AllIIA u 't bltitl tii' liE HIS W llFflS
 After short halt for water at Con gress Junction the motorists wended their way over hilly and otherwise unsatisfactory road to stanton and thence or and up the big grade. Tar nell Hill. the hardest pull on the road with the possible exception of the Cop per Basin grade begins about two miles above Stanton.
 But as the cars climbed higher into the mountains the prospect became more pl asant. Oak brush replaced the thorny shrubs of the desert and occasional farms in the broad grassy valley }0wn which the road finds it's way after the conquest of Yarnell Hill proclaimed q more generous rainfall than the desert knows.
 The machines crossed q clear, cool stream with clustered cottOnwoods and browsing bovines took water at Kirk Ian1 negotiated several miles of deep sand in the bed of Kirkland Wash climbed a bad hill and descended a worse one and in due time found their way into Copper Basin
 But the road, being apparently dis pleased with this loWly position, soon seeks higher level and the last and longest climb on the Path to Prescott begins. The road up Copper Basin Hill is fairly smooth but it's phenomenal tilt permits of fast travelling only in one direction-and that direction is not up
 But when the motorists finally did achieve the climb to the divide the highest elevation reached in the wnofe Capital to Canyon Trai.T what a re- ward awaited them! The pine clad slope of the mountain slipped away a thousand feet to the rolling hills of the green clad valley below.
 Eight or ten miles away rose noun tains of the valleys opposite wall and behind them another range and an- other and off to the west hundred miles the highest range of aIl hay I blue in the distance
 From the divide the cars coasted smoothly nearly the whole eighteen miles to Prescott, the petulent engines quit for q while and the pungent odor, of the pines upiacing the more famil- jar fumes of gasoline.
 An enthusiastic crowd awaited the arrival of the tourists at Prescott Among those who welcomed the visi- tors were Secretary Fraser of the chamber of commerce: T. c. Norris president of the Arizona Good Roads association, Paul Burks and pr BIain president and vice president of the i Prescott auto club and M. B. Hazeltine secretary of the club, Dr. Finn, Dresi- dent of the chamber of commerce and many other prominent men of the Mile High City"
 But many of the tourists did not reach Prescott in time to enjoy the entertainment provided for them Tues day evening. Only seven of the cars arrived in Prescott before twelve o'clock Tuesday night. Most of thos< that were stalled ran out of gasoline on the Copper Basin Hill and had tC await the arrival of the rescue car that was sent out at one o'clock Wednes- day morning.
 The first days trip is by all odds the hardest of all In fact MT. Ollier say: '"The rest of it is a joke so the tour ists will go joking on for several day: to come,