El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-13
SNOW AND RAIN MAKE ROADS BAD.
AND AUTO TRAVEL IS ALSO POOR
FL Paso and Culberson Counties Building Good Roads
East of Here, According to an Automobile Traveller;
DOna Ana County Buys Truck for Road Work;
Many Sales of Automobiles This Week.

- NOW, rain and slush, during the
early part Of the week. did much
~ TO put the roads in the vicinity Of
II Paso in poor condition FOR automo-
bile tourists. Motorists who have been
over the roads this week report that it
viii be at least another week before
the highways. aside from those that
have been paved. will be fit for QUITO
mobile travel. Roads west and north
of FL PasO are said 20 be drying out
better than those to the east Of the city
r J.. stuart, sales manager OF the
Neff-Styles company automobile de-
partment, local distributors OF the
REQ, started for Fort Stockton and
nearby towns last Saturday but was
-mudbound" near Van Horn on Mon
day and returned to the city without
his car He states that the roads in
the vicinity Of Van Horn viii not be in
condition for another ten days
Mr.. Stuart has some good words for
the work that is being done on the
highways, however. He declares that
the FL PasO county commissioners are
building a fine road to Sierra Blanca
and that the Culberson county COM
missiOners are continuing the work
and will carry the road from Sierra
Blanca to PecOs towards the county
line. When this work is finished. there
viii be a fine boulevard from this city
10 Pecos but Just now, in an unfinished
state. the road is almost impossible.
Numerous cars are reported TO be stuck
along the road
Expect Tourist Traffic.
Touring parties have not been num-
eroul during the past week, doubtless
due 10 the poor condition IF the roads.
Local garage men believe that the real
tourist traffic will not set in for n
couple Of weeks but that the number
OF transcontinentaI tourists this sum
mer will exceed all past records.
One Of the speediest appearing cars
seen here in some time is a Simplex
speedster which has Just been driven
IN from New ork for Hugh Warfield-
Van Horn Man Here.
d Taylor, or Van Horn, came into
town early in the week and drove
away with a new Overland five-pas-
senger touring car He declared that /
he expected little trouble getting home,
despite toe bad roads.
Last Sunday morning, the Gibbons I
brothers, from DeminE. started home 1
with their newly purchased Overland /
touring car
Walter Weiman and 7. Gales expect I
u leave for Albuquerque some time /
today, taking with them a new Over
land car one OF the new six-cylinder /
models
GaFford Truck Ordered.
The county commissioners Of Dona
Ana county, n NJ, have ordered a ton
and q half GaTford truck from the Ell I
Paso Overland company. This is a new
performance will be watched with in {
-erest The commissioning viii con-
struct their own body and will use il I
in general road work
This weeks purchasers % Maxwell (
,ars include W h SchrOck. Of Sierra J
Blanca who drove his car home on
Thursday.
Gilmore & Kirk. Of TuIa-osa, came
ntO town on Thursday and took back
With them a Maxwell model %, pur-
snased from the Buquor Auto Sales
company.
John CostIow. factory representative
II the Maxwell, is expected 10 be q
-isitor in FL PasO during the coming
week
Sub Agency Let.
The Maria Manufacturing company
.as secured a subagency at Maria for
he Oakland car.
A +. Elmore and John Price. Of the
oakland Auto Sales company, are in
Alpine, Tex, for a few days
c. z. Smith, of Sierra Blanca, Tex. I
among the weeks purchasers OF
'tudebaker cars he has a five-pas-
enger touring model
Among the visitors along @AutOmo-
lie Row" this week were W. " lior-
is, Jr. and I. W. Ehrman Of Dallas
fr Morris is Texas manager OF the
'halmers Motor Car company while
IT. Ehrman is the company's service ( !
gent for this state. l.
The Elliott-Garrett company this
-eek delivered TO J. A Reams. or Ne
lila Park, \. NJ, a five-passenger
tudebaker car.
New Metz Models.
Whyman Brothers have purchased ]
ne OF the new fiTe-passenger Metz 1 7