Arizona republican., 1914-12-02
JOURNEY
 ID ROOSEVELT
Trip Made Under Excep- tionally Luxurious Cir cumstances and in Fine Company = Some of the Things Seen En Route

Pretty nearly every body in Phoenix except the writer, had at one time or another visited the Roosevelt dam since the completion of the Roosevelt road.
 Some had gone in heavy wagons and others in automobiles but it remained
 for the writer to make the trip not long ago in the company of E. R. Pirtle of
 Douglas, w. A. Horrell of this city, Jack Troy of Boston and Stanley Har-
 ris chauffeur for MT Pirtle, in the
 Cadillac, Eight. the first eight cylinder machine ever brought to the state. It
 was worth waiting all these years to
 make the journey in that equipment
 and that company. MT Pirtle by the
 way is the southwestern agent for the
 Cadillac and Mir Horrell is the local
 agent.
 Running out of the city early one
 morning, the machine attracted general
 attention by the peculiar noise of the
 engine which was mistaken for the
 motor of an aeroplane. Quieting down a little it took on purr in lower tone
 unceasing but inspiriting. The ma
 
 what it could do. Running on high" it was brought down to less than two miles an hour and when the road was right it was permitted to develop as much of the more than seventy horse power of which it was capable, as the driver cared to bring out. The remark able performance of running on high to the top of Fish Creek hill was done. In making the descent on the other side with the power shut off, the great machine swooped down the long and tortuous inclines with the silence and grace of great royal green bird, dip ping on this side or that according to the way the road engineers had fixed the thoroughfare to meet the needs of the concave and convex curves.
 En route the car passed the skull and
 bones of a horse and little farther on, the not yet decayed carcass on an au tomobile No. 23" one of the partici- pants in the Fl Paso to Phoenix race.
 It had started home by the way of Globe and at a bad place in the road
 an axle had given way. The Cadillac Eight passed its remains as contemp- tuously as it had swept by the bones of the horse. Both were out of its class.
 Some had thought that the eight cyl finder was not practicable. On what theory that supposition was based is not clear. But it does not matter now since the Cadillac has dissipated it and sent it's disintegrated portions to take
 their places among the theories that the earth is flat and that the sun do move
 The constant cooperation of the cyl finders give one riding in the car confi dencc in it's great power. And more to the point, the regularity of pull they afford. effects a great saving of tires. The tires had been run more than thousand miles and they were hardly scared They had been subjected to
 no sudden jerks. The feature of com
 fort may be described in the statement
 that the Cadillac Eight is an automo- bile palace car.
 It is no use describing the trip to the readers of The Republican. It would be like reprinting the multipli cation table tor the edifica tion of the sophomore class, for as has been stated every body in the Salt River valley has been over that scenic route. But there was one feature of it that the writer had never heard alluded to and to him 1t was the most impressive thing in the | course of the journey.
 Descending from the summit of Fish | Creek hill the road sweeps down in l long and graceful curves beside a can l yon along the other side of which it returns. A detOur of considerable more | than a mile is made at that point. On | the farther side of the canyon there is | a precipitous wall of gray green rock | which may be 400 or 500 high. Walling | the canyon on the same side there is a precipice of a red-colored rock about as | high, standing a little nearer the can yon. At one point in the downward | road both of these huge walls seem to | be in motion. the gray green wall slid | ing behind the red wall. It is scene shifting on scale that takes ones | breath away That effect might not be produced for one riding in a slow mov- l ing vehicle but it alone is worth the | trip to Roosevelt.