Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-03-12

oo d oSuse Clouu ana Dy
a tornado. The tour in California and
h two expeditions which commemo-
rate the completion Of the Panama
cana, will be a motor migration of
unprecedented magnitude. Garage
men, west of the Missouri river, will
sell more gasoline in n week during
the months Of June, July, August and
September than they sold in a year
previous to 1915. With the first
SHOWS of November and December.
more Americans Will be able to talk
intelligently of the wonders of their
heretofore neglected country than
ever before in the history of this
nation, unappreciated and unexplored
by thousands of native tourists until
Mars blockaded the ports of Europe
and made the seeing of America i'm
perative.
In the snow-bound days of plan
ming and preparing for the California
tour, motorists are asking a common
question-What is the best rout to
the Pacific coast? To give an I'M
biased, truthful answer, to select a
specific oce~an-to-ocean highway or
a combination of roads and to stamp
1t for them as the superior of all the
others is to invite criticism-some of
1t deserved perhaps, but most of it
prompted by prejudice-into your
house. 1t is not a thankIess task,
/ hnWaVnr nnR for thf, $1,000. -.-
Age will attempt it, hoping that
should its recommendations be fol-
lowed, hundreds of tourists will find
the trip less arduous and more en-
joyable than If they had gone blind
ly forth and discovered the good roads
and the bad roads for themselves"
Here Mr.. Burton describes the far
south route. travelling through Ely to
Los Angeles, also the Lincoln high
way and the north route to the north
west. Then he continues, and by the
way, this is mighty important to the
tourist:
Take the Ogden Route.
And o our guard is down. We
NNS DAoNSu 1O1 IN lmpeuuluS DlOW.
If you are San Francisco bound on
the Lincoln highway, leave the me-
mortal road at Ogden, Utah, and fol-
low the northern route, the old Over
land trail of the stage-coaching days,
across Utah and Nevada. This is not
a warning but a recommendation.
Should you disregard such advice and
AXE the southern route through Salt
Lake City and cross the Great Am
erican desert, doubtless you will
reach Reno without suffering hard.
ships Of any consequence ana expert.
ence only the slightest inconv cniences.
Probably you will be one CT the 999
out Of every 1000 tourists who will
drive over the arid waste land in alb.
solute safety. Then uRai1. you may
be the unfortunate one, singled out
by an unkind fate, that will be caught
in a rain storm which makes the
road temporarily impossible or whose
a will break down in the heart of
an isolated, water-famined region.
I'VE sincerely believe that the east.
ern motorist, travelling for the first
time in the west and unacquainted
with conditions in the country beyond
the Missouri river, should be overly
cautious and should play safe, to use
he vernacular of the gambler; that
In choosing between two routes, he
should select the road that offers the
fewest chances for accidents even
though the difference in safety be
tween the two is so slight as to be
almost negligible. For the reason
and without malice or prejudice, Mo.
tor Age recommends the north route,
via Ogden, as preferable to the south
route via Salt Lake City.
1.-THE question of which is the bet.
ter route around the Great Salt Lake
has become a nationwide argument.
Salt Lake City and Ogden naturally
have taken sides and daily are MAX
ing claims and counter claims, some
OF them worthy of serious considera-
ton and other exaggerated and
prompted by prejudice. TO appoint
oneself Judge Of the merits of the two
roads is only to become embroiled in
a tumultuous, calarihc, acrid debate.
In justice to both sides, Motor Age
herewith prints the testimony of the
proponents OF each route. that of the
Blue Book representative, whom we
believe Is impartial, and that OF A. l..
Westgard, the pioneer motor path.
finder.
1.-THE two routes are approximately
OF equal length, the northern measur-
ing 1891 miles and the southern
totaling 623.S miles.
"And now the baliff is clearing his
throat preparatory 20 calling the first
witness, s. ID. Walden, formerly vice
president OF the Packard Motor Car
company who warns motorists not to
be misled into taking the northern
route by the advice OF Ogden boost
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