The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15

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Idences of thrift and industry. The homes
were invariably painted the yards were
cleared of weeds and other unsishtly ef-
fects and ON the whole a better condi-
tion were noticed than have been in
evidence since the present tour began
One feature of the farm houses in Gull
man county is that nearly all of them
have an abundance of fruit trees neal
them
Vineyards We're seen at the rear or on
the side of the homes and long stretches
of fruit orchards We're noticed in close
proximity to the houses The crops on
the whole We're excellent Cullman is a
great truck raising county and the high
way party saw large crops of potatoes
stra wberries and garden vegetables, all
of which were well cultivated and in o
good healthy condition
After leaving the city of Culman the
highway scouting car proceeded towards
the Morgan county line. covering the
distance between Cullman and the county
line which is nearly "A miles in Is minutes
Sand Mountain Road Rough
The town of Eva was the first place
entered in Morgan county, and then
the party had a difficult time for the
two hours The road down Sand noun
tain proved very rough. though not
nearly so bad as the Blount county
roads The scouting car had to make
Its way very slowly for distance of
about 10 miles, 1t being necessary at
times to pile rocks in the road to lift
the machine over large boulderS in
making the distance down the side of
Sand mountain.
However, better roads were reached
in due time and the last lap of the
journey into Decatur was covered IN
less than 80 minutes. For distance of
Is miles Morgan county has splendid
pike road extending into Decatur and
this end of the trip was coveredat the
average speed of 25 miles an hour
Engineer Keller took the longest
route in coming from Cullman to De-
catlir, his original intention having
been to come to this city by way of
Hartseile. Upon reaching CulIlnau
however, he learned that the Hartselle
road was being worked and he decided
to come the longer way. Roreover Mr.
Keller was familiar with the Hartselle
road, and "a second motive which in
duced him to take the other route was
the fact that his present trip is purely
scouting one and he wished to see If
there were any better way to reach
Decatur than by the route he had origi-
nally planned.
The highway party will remain in
Decatur until Sunday morning and will
strike out early Tor Florence. 1T is be
lieved that the car has passed the
toughest roads it will encounter on
the entire trip. Since leaving Mobile
there has not been an accident to the
machine, although at times 1t looked
as II the car would be torn to pieces.
With the construction of about 50 miles
of good roads between Birmingham and
Mobile State Highway Engineer w. s..
Keller believes that an automobile could
go from one city to another in 16 hours.
The total distance between Birmingham
and Mobile, according to registrations of
the speedometer on the state highway
touring car Is 221 miles,
In the opinion of Mr.. Keller this dis
tance should be covered by a fast tour
ting car between the RISE and set of the
sun at this season of the year. The roads
which Mr.. Keller thinks shoulda be. inS-
proved so as to make the trip between
Birminghame and Mobile possible IN day
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