Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-05
SEEING AMERICA
IN A HUDSON SIX

Denver to Los Angeles by railroad
with Pullman berth, cost Sos for two
people, but it has just been done by
automobile for s91 all told, besides the
pleasure of Seeing America" in the
right way.
This remarkable economy record
was established by w. IL. Todd and his
wife on trip from the Colorado capi-
tai to San Francisco and Los Angeles
in Hudson SiX-40.
The camping outfit which Mr.. Todd
mas his Hudson equipped with is prob
ably the most complete ever carried
across America, and the only night
spent under a roof on the entire jour-
ney of 2,614 miles, was at San Fran
cisco when they visited the exposi-
ton.
The route followed by the Todd
party was from Denver to Cheyenne
and through Southern Wyoming over
the Lincoln highway to Ogden. There
they diverted to the old Overland trail
around the north end of Great Salt
Lake and crossed Nevada through Kel-
ton, Lucin and Winnemucca.
Never again." said Mr. Todd in
speaking. of that part of his route.
Tell everyone coming from the East
on the Lincoln highway to stick to
the official route from Salt Lake CITY
tallon to Reno, and don't go via the
north end of the lake over the old
overland route, for l believe it is the
worst road to be found in America.
I'VE first plowed through miles of
alkali dust approaching the lake and
then around the north end there were
forty miles of hub-deep greasy mud.
That was followed by days of deep
sand work, over ridges and through
canyons, until our whole persons radi-
ated salty sand from every pore.
The heat, too was terrific all the
way across this great stretch Justly
called the Great American Desert, and
the combination of strenuous work,
grades, sand and heat was one grand
test for our sturdy old car.
we met some parties at Reno who
had just arrived from the official Ely-
Fallon route and they had a quick,
clean trip and found the main Lin
coin highway in excellent condition.
1T was a great relief to reach the
California line and the good roads
over the Sierras. The scenery around
Lake. Tahoe is magnificent and that
alone would have fully repaid us for
the really desperate work of the north
ern route around Salt Lake.
If we had not had a thoroughly de-
pendable car in that difficult part of
our journey L guess we would have
been there yet. At it was, we Just
plowed along through thick and thin,
and finally reached the end after a
week of steady struggling
Our economy record with the Hud-
son is remarkable, and for the benefit
of thousands who will motor ocross
America next year, let me recommend
that everyone take a complete outfit
and live right in the open. 1t greatly
benefited our health and at the same
time kept our expenses down to the
minimum Our tire troubles consisted
of one puncture only for the long
journey, and that happened right at
Conejo Grade just this side of Ven
tura.
by camping out we lived on less
than four dollars day, including gas
and oil for the machine. BY the way.
we got an average of fourteen miles to
the gallon of gasoline with our Hud-
son Six. except through the mud near
Salt Lake and the deep sand pulling
in Eastern Nevada, and there the
average dropped to eleven miles to the
gallon because of so much second gear
work.
I'VE consider this quite remark
able record and certainly shall use our
Hudson n preference to a railroad ON
every possible occasion in the future"