El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-30
Ell PASO MOTORISTS GO UP TO BIG DAM
AND RIDE IN THE DIRT DIPPING BUCKETS

TIL PASO automobilists had a thrill
=, ing experience at the Elephant
- Butte dam Sunday, when they rode
/ from the bottom of the pit up to the
top. a distance Of $50 feet, at q rate Of
/ 600 feet a minute, in buckets on the
I aerial derricks- There were 10 of them
in each car.
r. j. Schmalhausen. superintendent
Of construction, took them all over the
works Sunday in a special train. which
ne ordered out for the purpose After
visiting all of the plants, they went
trip in the buckets.
The party left Ell Paso Saturday
morning at 1880 in four machines. j.
NJ Pollard had his Cadillac, and in the
Armstrong, Gywnne Foster, Ted HOugh-
ton and A. R. Burgess. W. x. MARI, in
MS Buick 40, had +. J. TWynham, W.
R. Piper, G. B. Feagin and Walter Har-
old, the latter driving. This was the
pilot car. W X Ramsey had II. a.
hamilton, A H ROdes and Vance Stew
art in his Studebaker "25." DR.. j. NJ
Ridley. H B. Harding. T. H and r. A.
Ramey were in the Ramey brothers
HupmObile "32"
They arrived at Las Cruces at 2:15
and had dinner there Between Rock
Point and Aleman they ran into mud
and ran for five miles through eight
inches of water, having struck that
point five minutes after a rainstOrm.
Here the HupmObile threw a tire
They reached Cutter after dark and
continued to the dam, reaching there
supperless at $40 Saturday night. They
made the difficult descent along the
winding rocky roads into the dam,
while il was pitch dark and rather dan
gerOus-
After going all over the works, they
started for home at 1915 Sunday morn
IN nTan-a
made the trip in the buckets with them.
but did not come back to FL Paso. They
reached Cutter at 1 o'clock and stopped
20 minutes for lunch. The Turney's
main ranch was reached at $3.50 and
they left there at 1855. reaching Las
Cruces at 4:49, left there at SIS and
reached the plaza in El PasO at T:25.
The speedometer on the pilot car showed
they mad covered HIS miles from the
dam
Win Mari had blowout 26 miles
out from the dam and VIII Ramsey got
a short circuit % miles out of Las
Cruces and had to run into the AIesilla
valley town on two cylinders. He did
not get into FL PasO until 11:15.
MI IWynham made a new log OF
the road all the way down from the
dam, and says the road between Cut
ter and the dam is in good condition
They made good time over most Of
the roads, but did not attempt any
records cOnceding that Win J. Rand's
way Of Engle will stand for some
time.
They are to make corrections in the
map for the benefit OF future tourists,
as there are several errors, particu-
larry as to the ways Of getting into
and out Of the ranches along the route.
Five FL Paso boys on motorcycles
made the run to Las Cruces sunday,
running back from that town in the
fast time of 1 hour and 50 minutes,
despite the fact that the roads are
rough in places.
R Romero. on twin cylinder Indian,
mad bump at the bridge east Of NadO
station. His front fork broke, and he
was thrown off his machine, cutting
MS left arm and bruising his shoulder,
while. his lamp was broken and the
machine otherwise damaged. The
other boys who made the trip had no
accident They were Harvey VIII
cox, w. Swanson. Jim Ross and George
Lujan.
George LeBaron- I'm his Overland car,
ran up to Anthony and around in the
upper part Of the valley Sunday.
Charlie Stevens has gone Alfred Pay
son Weston one better for getting an
appetite for breakfast Instead of
walking three or four miles, he packs
the family into his Chalmers automO-
pile and runs out on the mesa towards {
the tin mine a distance Of so miles
Then they come back and eat all the
hot cakes and bacon they can cook IN {
an hour They inaugurated this ap-
IctiziEg system Sunday and viii keep I
1t up.
Mr. and Mrs W. r. Schultz, A. II. I
Anderson and Mrs. J. Mortimer ran on
to Anthony Sunday. then returned To 4
the city and made the run out toward .
Deming in Mr.. SchUtz's Ford "20." The
rta d TO Deming, though a bit dusty in 4
places, is being put in good condition. /
II. r. McClintock is trying to get }