El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-19

! motor was to the COrnudOs noun
/ tain by R. H. Rinehart, DR.. Felix Miller
I and G A. Martin in their cars Mr.
Z Rlnehart was accompanied by Mrs
i Rinehart and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
I Galley, in his Chalmers 49," Dr. Miller
D was accompanied by his family in his
hudson 80" and Nr. Martin was &C
I companied in his Chalmers go by Mrs
Martin, Miss Halle Irwin and H D.
Slater
The trip is exactly 65 miles from
Pioneer plaza, by way Of HuecO Tanks
The road would not be clasSed as good,
however, between HUecO Tanks and the
CornudOs. It is a fairly good road
( through HueCO canyon out onto the
mesa beyond, the distance from HuecO
] TO the mesa through the pass being
1lVe miles There IS considerable gOoQ
road then on to the COrnudOs, but In
places 1t is very rocky and there are
many high centers- In the trip sunday
Martins car, which led, did the barber
act to about three miles of high centerS
on the way out and took on perfectly
good mu1fled cut out without expense
by striking juttlng rock and knocking
q hole in the bottom of the muIIl er.
This was the only accident on the trip
4 the three cars making 1t without a
pUncture either going or returning
Rinehart made a record on low con-
sumption of gasoline, making the round
trip OF 80 miles on z = gallons OF gas
The distance to Hueco Tanks is 81
miles, then it is five miles through the
pass and % miles on to the COrnudos,
About 81 miles from FL PasO, the road
Blanca and the left one on to the Cor
nudOs, crossing the New Mexico boun-
Diary something over so miles out rom
FL PasO The AlamOs ranch and spring
are passed at a distance of So miles
from FL PasO. This is the only water
between HuecO Tanks and the Cor
nudOs.
The Cornudos mountain. while not as
extensive in area as HuecO Natural
park is equally as attractive, has many
caves and is covered with much more
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ruins Of an Old ranch house at the
mouth Of one giant cave is surrounded
by quite an orchard Of peach and apple
trees and grape vines, growing Wllu-
There is a ranch house near the place,
where cistern v alter may be obtained
for drinking purposes Water IN q
spring in one of the caves can. be OBJ
tanned Tor radiators It IS unit Tor
drinking by reason Of the Insects thar
have become drowned in it,
Mr.. Slater made q big collection OF
pictures Of the COrnudOs to add 70 MS
magnificent collection from HuecO
Tanks He also did some photograph
The party left FL Paso at 6 o'clock
Sunday morning and returned to Ell
PasO before Z in the evening stops
were made AT Huee0 gong out ana aL
Alamo ranch and HuecO canyon com
ing back. From 1890 until the party
remained at the Cornudos.
Hunting and fishing are good along
the line from Fort Worth TO FL PasO
according to three residents of the
former town who came TO FL Paso last
week and are en- route to California
c. T. May, r. R. MOser and Charles
Adams are the men who made the 600
automobile and say they liked the trip.
They mad only one punCture enrOute
and that was near Valentine
At Fort Worth they had delivery
truck top p,,t on their machine so they
could carry their guns and fishing
tackle and camping outfit They trav-
the trip Leaving Fort worth they
took the Texas & Pacific right OF way
to Odessa. ran over to Fort Stockton
and Alpine, and ran along the g. a.
rightOfway to FL PasO. The roads were
good except one stretch Of sandy road
near HuecO Tanks.
Along the road they stopped at Min
eral Wells, Abilene and Big Springs,
and at Fort stockton they stayed for
two days fishing. EnrOute they killed
two ratuesnakes and a large hawk
and have the rattles and the hawks
claws. on the front Of their machine as
From here they intend to go to Ari-
iona and, upon their erturu viii prob
ably locate in FL Paso permanently.
Mason Pollard drove his Cadillac up
to Canutillo Sunday TO give the folks
an outing. Those in the party besides
Alr. Pollard were his father Jos. Pol
lard, his aunt, Miss Nell Pollard, and
Mr.. and Mrs WI Burgess
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Moye and Miss
Della MOye ran up to the ranch be-
yong CanuiuO in Mr.. MOyes White
go" Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Kerr and child
rem and Mrs. Claiborne Adams ran out
to Hits ranch in Mr.. Kerr's Chal-
mers six and took supper at the
ranch
NJ J. Roseboro drove up TO Las
Cruces Sunday in a Studeballer IS
y
Nick Depeder and family took a run
down the county road in Hudson
six" Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. John HUtchins ran
down the county road past Clint In
the Packard racer which Mr.. Hutchins
viii drive in next Sundays races at
the JUarez track
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Mr.. and Mrs J. W. Stockard and
Mrs Jos. Brown drove down to Esleta
in a Buick "51" and took supper at
the Valley Inn
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gayle drove down
to Clint in a Buick
Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Wise drove to
Clint in their Hudson six"
Mr.. and Mrs. V. r. Stiles and child
ren drove down the county road in
REQ 5th.
Z. Z. Neff took a customer out sun
day on the lower valley road. He sold
him the car they were riding in and
came back to town. while the pur-
chaser, a Mr. Benson, kept on driving
down the valley.
Chas. G. HawkinsOn and family and
II. r. AIcClintOck and family made the
run up to Las Cruces Sunday. The
HawkinsOns had their Michigan 40
and McCIintock drove his Hudson
Six" They went UP by way Of san
Augustine Pass
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". NJ Peticolas and family drove
out to the tin mine beyond Mt Frank
lin in their Velie 40"
There were two parties ont at the
HuecO Tanks on a picnic Sunday. One
party was composed of three machines.
w. L. TOoley drove his Lozier and with
him were Mrs. Tooley. Mr.. and Mrs.
4. T. White and Mrs Josephine Nor
fit In W. w. Turney's Cadillac were
Mr.. and Mrs. Turney, Mr. and Mrs
VIII F. Race and Miss Josephine Nor
fit. Mr.. and Mrs II. c. Ferris in their
car were also Of the party.
Another party was composed Of Mr.
and Mrs. r. c. Semple and Mrs. J. G
Lakeland in their car and Mr. and Mrs.