Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-04-11

we wanted to get into Reno before
dark, but slight tire trouble delayed
US and as darkness settled, we noticed
a short distance ahead Of us huge
auto truck. We soon caught up TO it
and found it was the five-ton Alec
motor truck on its way from Phila-
delphia to San Francisco with a three
ton load of soap for some Famous silk
manufacturers in the Pacific coast
town. 1t is the first auto truck to
tackle the rans-cOntinental delivery
of merchandise and it left the Quaker
City on June 10th, 1912. We passed
it on September 10th. 1t was a great
giant; a cumbersome thing and the
marvel to us was that it had sue
ceeded in getting to that point Ii
was mogging along at snail's pace,
but it got there just the same. 1t
reached Reno the next day before we
left the town and put up at the same
garage we did-the Doris, good
one.
We regretted much that darkness
overlook us before we reached the city
as the scenery was worth seeing. We
arrived at Reno at in the evening
days run, 80 miles,, and put up at
the Overland hotel, good second
class one, where rooms cost us $3.50,
two in bed. Restaurant meals were
especially good at moderate prices;
pie, 10 cents and sandwiches, 10
cents.
The next morning we found that
one of the cars needed a new spring
and some other repairs and as we
were perfectly willing to be delayed,
after our trying journey, we decided
to spend the day in the famous di-
vorce town. 1t has population of
-,-, and is quite modern. The
Riverside is the best hotel, but there
are three or four other ones that are
good. The postoffice, Y. M. c. A. and
the Majestic theater buildings are
ones that any town would be proud of.
The place is really eastern in all of
its physical aspects. 1t is kept rea-
sonably clean, is well lighted and
boasts of stream of water flowing
through it. This latter feature is one
well worth mentioning. 1t lies in a
pretty and fertile valley and the eli
mate is better than bearable at any
time of the year.
Wednesday, September 18th, we
took the whole day off and loafed
around Reno.
Thursday morning, September 18th,
we got started at 10 o'clock in the
morning and ran the 80 miles to ia
famous old Carson City in time for
lunch.
The Nevada capital stands out as
the most prominent thing in Carson
City and after we had our luncheon
we walked over to the building. The
governor had not returned from his
lunch;. it was a warm lazy day, and
we didn't blame him any for lettering.
We did meet a charming lady clerk
in the governors office, however and
after a brief visit with her she intro
duced US to the governors secretary
and a state senator. They were very
courteous and volunteered to give us
pass to visit the state prison few
miles out of the city. This prison has
something very unusual in the way of
prehistoric footprints in the natural
stone floor 1t is said that scientists
have never been able to tell whether
they were made by human beings or
animals. We were not scientists and
we were in a hurry so we kept the
pass as a souvenir of our trip and
started out to tackle the grade up the
Sierra Nevada mountain on our way
to Lake Tahoe, pronounced Tah-hoe,
both syllables accented.
Following our Blue Book route, we
soon found ourselves trying to climb
the steepest grade through the worst
roads filled with sand that it had been
our bad fortune to find. This is the
only serious bone we have to pick with
the authors of the Blue Book. 1t told
us that we should by all means take
in the famous Lake Tahoe on our way
to Frisco. We believed this, but it
also told us to take the Clear Creek
canyon road. We did and of all the
difficulties you ever heard of in try
ing to make a balky mule go, they
were as nothing in comparison to our
efforts in trying to climb the steep
and sandy mountain road up Clear
Creek canyon.
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