Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-03-12
NORTHERN ROUTE IS MUCH BETTER
SAY WRITERS IN MOTOR MAGAZINES
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ROAD was Quilt In 1914, n this
promises to be In very fair condition
for the travel of 1915. The new route
passed thriugh Rosette, Rosebud, on
to Lucin. then to Tecoma and Mon
tello in Nevada. Gasoline and meals
may be obtained at Rosette and lodg-
ing at Rosebud ranch, Lucin and
Tecoma- At Montello the Southern
Pacific railroad maintains a hotel
and good restaurant. There is also
a supply station at this point at the
service Of the tourists. From here
b road follows the railroad almost
b entire distance to Reno. Nevada.
At Cobre, Deeth and Elko supplies
and lodging may be had, but Elko is
the best night control, having good
hotels, garages and general supplies.
Road conditions from Montello to Ell
ko are generally good, with the pos
sible exception Of three or foul miles
OF rough stretch which should not
bother any tourist.
From Elko, Carlin is about a %
mile run, where supplies may be had.
There is also a railroad restaurant
and hotel at this point; then on to
Battle Mountain, where hotel and
garage accommodations are complete.
From here the old railroad grade is
travelled for a distance of nearly 35
miles to Golconda and Winnemucca.
Supplies n hotel may be had at
Golconda, although Winnemucca is
advisable in that 1t has modern ho-
tells, garages and supplies.
Road conditions between Elko and
Battle Mountain are also generally
good unless 1t be in the late summer,
when some stretches are dusty and
cut UP.
From Winnemucca to Lovelock is
an easy run; with small towns of Mill
City and Oreana, which oler hotel
and supply stations. At Mill City the
railroad maintains a hotel and res
taurant. Lodgings may also be had
at Humboldt and Rye Patch. Love-
lock has good hotels and supply sta
tons. The road between Winnemucca
and Oreana. In the late summer this
road becomes very dry, dusty and
cut up.
From Lovelock to Wadsworth there
is a good road, passing the old salt
works. From Wadsworth to Reno
the road passes through a scenic
canyon. Here the tourist continues
west on the Lincoln highway.
Burton's Motor Age Story.
That the east is looking westward
is indicated by the numerous articles
that are appearing in the automo-
bile magazines with reference to
western travel. One Of the best ar
ticles appearing this season Is by Mr..
]. G. Burton in Motor Age of Feb
ruary 25. In this article Mr.. Burton
substantiates the argument in favor
Of the north route out Of Ogden and
Salt Lake City. His story Is so we'll
written that 1t must be quoted YER
batum. Read 1t. 1t will make you
wan to tour II you never toured be-
fore in your life:
Although we are now slush-deep
in February and will not be knee
deep In June for foul months of
thaw, rain and mud, the time has
come, as the walrus once remarked
to Alice
to plan the Frisco tour,
To talk OF routes and desert trails
and small town cartes des jours.
For in mansions, where logs are
cracking in fireplaces; In apartment
buildings, where steam radiators
pound and hiss rebelliously, in farm
houses, where the domes of base
burners are as red as the sun at the
close of an Arizona day, motorists are
planning the tour to California, the
most cosmopolitan trek ever to leave
its imprint In the dust of the western
hemisphere. The blizzard may howl
at the doors; It can not silence the
seductive voice OF the road. The snow
may fall in binding fury; II can not
veil the vision of a land bathed in per-
petual sunshine and redolent with
roses and orange blossoms.
ION to California the cry OF the
gold-mad Forty-niner, Is tho slogan of
the 1915 motorist. With the coming
OF spring, thousands will be San
Francisco bound. The screech and
snarl Of motor horns will be heard on
roads where once the tinkling bells
of the PADRES donkey and the weary
creak OF the prairie s%chooner's wheels
announced the approach Of the adj
%venturers Of other days. The state
of paradoxes, which combircs Switz.
erlsnd'B. mountains with Italy's
shores; the Lorelei Of the American
s~isterhood has called to the modern
pilgrims and q twentieth century
Chaucer is about to dip his pen in In
delible ink and write tho tales OF a
pilgrimage to the countless shrines,
natural and artificial, of which Cali
foTnia can boast.
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