The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-04
From Atlantic to Pacific Will
State Tags Be Seen.
COLORADO IS POPULAR PLACE
There the Roads Are Fine and
Climate Bracing.
Motorcycle Exhibition Week
VIII Close Tonight.

Kansas automobiles will invade
many sections of the country in the
GUNNER months. City business men
viii break away from the daily grind,
ard some of the most prosperous of
the Jayhawker farmers who are in a
position to leave responsible persons in
charge Of the hands in the fields will
take their families and go off for well
earned outings
Colorado. along the Pacific coast. at
the Atlantic seaboard, in the great
lake region. and the south. The main
contingent of the small army of Kan
sas motor excursionists will undoubt-
edly head for Colorado. Many To-
. rekans will motor to Colorado Springs,
Estes Park. Palmer Lake. Boulder.
and other cool resorts near or among
tho Rocky mountains.
One reason why Colorado is an ideal
scate for the motorists. Is that the
roads out there are always in good
condition. Soon after leaving eastern
Kansas. the old Santa Fe trail stretch
es out like a boulevard for hundreds
OF miles. The hotel accommodations
are excellent for those who do not
camp out along the road. These towns
arc passed in Kansas; Hutchinson,
Great Bend, Garden City, Dodge City,
Syracuse; in Colorado the automobile
passes through Las Animas, Lamar,
Fowler, La Junta. Rocky Ford and
Pueblo before reaching the cool spots.
In all of the cities and towns, there
are good hotels and restaurants.
Avenue III Miles Long.
From Denver to Pueblo, through
Colorado Springs and Palmer Lake, is
a fine avenue III miles long. When
IT rains in Colorado the water dries off
the soil in a few minutes. Consequent
ly the going is good.
Cripple Creek. the head of the great
gold mining district, is situated IL, 900
feet above sea level in the heart of
the Rampant range. However, it is
accessible to any city in the state.
Fl ON Colorado Springs, there is a long
and beautiful automobile driveway to
he mining city. The drive starts up
abode of outlaws. and passes through
Woodland Park, Cascade, Green
Mountain Falls and other resorts. 1t
Their winds around the west side of
Pixies Peak, through the Petrified
forest and goes to the deserted city of
Gillette. Cripple Creek is but a few
miles beyond
The city presents itself suddenly on
curve, as it is situated in a hollow.
On all sides great mihes can be seen
anc little prospectOrs' tunnels arei
everywhere. There are many such in
tcresting trips for the Kansas auto
driver in Colorado.
Among the other interesting trips
is the Canon City skyline drive. This
Crive is for miles on the top of a
II ountain and looking down, the green
irrigated district can be seen. There
is good road from Cripple Creek to
Canon City.
The Royal Gorge trip by automobile
is perhaps the best trip of it's kind in
the world. On the brink of the deep
canyon, the motorists can go for miles
looking into the depths of the Arkan-
ss.s river, hundreds of feet below. At
the bottom, the tracks of the Denver
~ Rio Grande railway can be observed.
The Estes Park automobile trip is a
pretty one, as is the road to Boulder
On the whole, man with an automo-
ollie can spend a pleasant vacation
with his family travelling overland in
Colorado.
There are many people who intend
20 vary their auto trip this year and
go to the Glorieta mountains in New
Mexico. Good roads make it easy for
them to visit Santa Fee, Albuquerque
and other old cities in the state. There
are also large number who intend to
go to California this year by horse
power.
The great lakes trip is a good one
for the automobile as the roads are
usually kept in good repair. There
arc two or three Kansans who travel
east every year and one Topeka man,
n. A. Perry. has an automobile in
Massachusetts which he uses every
summer.
1t is evident that the new Kansas
auto tags will be seen frequently at
summer resorts this year.
Motorcycle Exhibition Week.
Interest in motorcycles in and
around Topeka was stimulated by
Motorcycle Exhibition Week. which
will close tonight. A large number
of persons called at the four local
shops which had on display the latest
types of motorcycles and pop-pop
equipment. A dozen or more sales
were made in the week, and many
persons are considering the question
of buying later in the spring. One
man who dropped in to see an exhibit
said before he left that while he had
been considering buying an auto he
had decided that a motorcycle would