El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-13
5000 MILES MADE
ON FL PASO AIR
Mr.. and Mrs. James G.. Nc
Nary Return From Won
derful Automobile Ride.

Crossing five states and seven noun
tain ranges on a 5000 mile motor trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. McNary reached
Los Angeles with FL PasO air in t%see
Of the five tires on their Hupmobile
touring car in which they made the tour
through New Mexico, Colorado. Nevada,
Utah and California Mr.. and Mrs Nc
Nary returned Tuesday evening from
Los Angeles over the Santa Fe, leav-
ing their auto in Los Angeles to be
shipped back as Mr.. McNary could not
be away from his business long enough
To make the trip back to FL PasO by
automobile.
Left September II.
Leaving FL Paso on the morning of
September II with a complete camp
ing outfit in the tOnneau of the Hup-
mobile, Mr.. and Mrs McNary made the
trip to California without schedule or
time limit but drove as far as they
wished during the day and camped by
the roadside at night if there was not
a city or town near. Their one quest
was for scenery. open air and good
roads and Mr. McNary says they found
all IN such abundance that both he
and Mrs. AIcNary enjoyed every minute
OF their overland trip to the coast.
During the entire trip they encountered
no rain or wet roads except. as Mr.
McNary laughingly explained. where
the road had been sprinkled. on the
entire trip not more than % miles OF
the road was bad. Mr.. McNary says.
and the concrete roads Of California
more than made up for this
Side Trip To Portland.
From El PasO Mr.. and Hrs AIcNary
drove to Albuquerque. from there to Las
Vegas to visit Mrs. AIcNary's relatives
from there TO Santa Fe and then on TO
Denver From Denver they drove across
Colorado, Utah and Nevada to California
and down the Pacific coast to Los
Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara,
making a side trip by train TO Portland,
ore, to see Jack Reynolds. Mrs Nc
Nary's brother who is now located in
Portland
We crossed seven mountain ranges
on our trip and passed through cOun-
try, the scenery Of which is the most
wonderful have ever seen or hope to
see either here or in Europe" said Mr.
McNary Wednesday morning at his desk
at the First National bank. where he
was greeting his friends sun tanned
and IS rugged as a mountain climber.
Crossed Seven Ranges.
Eacn OF the passes through which
We drove were marked with the altitude
ana made record OF them Just TO
see now high We were climbing and
now many We would make on the trim
The Glorietta Pass was 1850. the Ration
fass 1890, the Golden Pass 1906. Ber-
thold : Pass, the highest we encoun-
tered. was 1880: the continental
divide was between Sulphur Springs
and GienwOOd Springs and was $3.50
Ieet' the Kings Canyon Pass was 1900
1eet and the summit Of the Sierra. be-
tween Lake Tahoe and PlacerviIle was
1890 feet We also crossed the san
Mateo Pass near Santa Barbara which
IS only $500 feet but it is from sea
level and was a steep climb.
20 Percent Grade.
we were told TO take the Tennessee
fass out Of Denver TO Gleuwood Springs
as this IS the beaten path for overland
touring but we preferred Berthold's
t'ass because Of the wonderful scenery
and the great trees wEsch are to be
FOUND along the road We climbed the
~ percent grade going over BerthoId's
Pass on low gear and were grinding
away on II for four hours. We had no
trouble on the trip. the only delay be-
ing because OF two punctures caused by
mans and we rolled into Los Angeles a
the END of our trip with Fl Paso air
IN three OF our five tires
Concrete Road Great.
. VI all the roads in the world Cali
orhia concrete roads are the finest /
" rOlled over these roads at a speed
n 90 miles an hour and hardly knew il.
ne Feaus were so smooth and the go J
ng so good. As we drove into san
Cleso We saw sign which read:
SLOW down to 90 miles an hour and the /
,psea limit has been taken off all over /
.aii1ornia- We spent a night al Los
angeles, one at Riverside. another al /
san Diego and the other southern CALI !
-ornla cities and we enjoyed every
single minute OF our trip and only
wished we could make the return trim
~ automobile instead Of by train"