El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-01

- ONT start on trip by autOmO-
bile TO CaliforGIa unless you have
a good car and n heavy car.
Don't start out with a car that heats
pulling in sand.
Don't start out without a camping
outfit and food and water,
Don't try to cross the desert from
Yuma to the Imperial valley without
carrying some short plnnks two inches
thick or some strips OF heavy canvas.
Don't start from one city TO another
without getting proper directions from
BOmebOdy who knows.
These are some of the dOn'ts that
Myrfl COblentE recommends 10 traT-
eIers, and Mr.. CobIentz has just made
the trip and knows. Some Of the things
he says TO do, are as fOIIOWss
Garry plenty Of water all the time .
he sure your speedOmeter Is set ut
each point to tally with your rOnd log.
Be sure to watch your road log and
the landmarks noted upon il.
Get started right and then keep GO
ing.
send your family by train from Tue
son or Phoenix on to Imperial OF san
DfeEO3 the roads between Phoenix and
Imperial are too rough for them 10
travel in comfort.
Take driver or take friend who
can relieve you at the wheel. II -
a'man killer to drive all day across
Some Of the bad roads.
Mr.. Coblentz, accompanied by FRANK
Fillmore. Walter Butler, C. A. Htrsch
and driver, left FL Paso for Califor-
MIA in his Cadillac eight and had no
trouble throughout the trip He recon-
mends IT as fine tour and asserted
yesterday: I would like TO make IL
right over again and I would enjoy
every minute Of it."
Seeing Roosevelt Dam.
They went from FL Paso TO Douglas,
Bisbee, Tombstone, Tucson, Florence
and Chandler, first 4 have stopped IN
hotels all over the world, but never an
one furnished as handsomely as Hotel
san Marcos in Chandler" asserted Mr..
COblentZ. From Chandler they made a
run cut TO the Roosevelt dam at Globe,
starting at SIX o'clock in the morning
ana making an easy run to the dam by
dam, they returned and reached Phoe-
nix by six that evening, returning
through Mesa and straight into Phoe-
nix Leaving Phoenix, they decided not
TO take the usual two days to make
Yuma, but ran right on through Aqua
CsHente, the usual first night stop,
when they reached It They hoped 70
make Yuma in a day but failed
Worst Roads in World"
THE worst roads in the world exist
between Phoenix and Yuma, Mr. Cob !
lentZ asserted There is some Of every /
sort of bad road imaginable-hish cen
tiers, bad washes, deeR sand, deep gull !
lies, rocks, hills. in fact every thing that I
an automobilist hates, and IL would jar Z
light car TO pieces. A car with a Z
tendency to heat is also a poor one To I
cross this stretch Of country in Our !
Cadillac did not boil once on the whole I
trip and we did not break a spring or
have any trouble other than punctures.
ana not many punctureS on the rip 1
left here with one spare casing and
only had 10 buy one other while on the
Gasoline 30 Cents Gallon.
ave left Phoenix at 4 o'clock in the
and it was after noon when We
reached Aqua Caliente, 80 miles. We
bought gasoline at 80 cents gallon
and I want to say that I would have
considered il cheap at Sand con-
tinued on towards Yuma. which is 2l9
miles out OF Phoenix, by way Of the
Castle Dome mountains. When the new Z
road is completed down the ella valley,
this part Of the trip will be much easier
and shorter, but now you have to make
a long curve out into the mountains
and then back again towards Yuma.
FerryinE the ella.
when we reached Dome, on the ella (
river, 19 miles out Of Yuma IL was az
ter night and the ferryman had gone TO
bed We camped for the night. as the
at 1880 we began the task OF
being ferried across. Indians operate
the ferry, and the stream is so swift
that they load the car on the ferry then
tow it up the river a mile above then
shove IL out into the stream and swim 4
and paddle with II towards the other
shore as the river current carries Il
down By the time the ferry is back
the loading point. they have
got the ferry TO the opposite bank
Stuck Near Yuma.
we had breakfast at Dome and then
ran on into Yuma. through deep sand
ali the way. reaching Yuma by or 10
o'clock in the morning. At Piley-s
garage in Yuma, we got instructions
for the rest Of the trip In Tucson.
Phoenix, Yuma and all along, the
garages issue logs Of the road ahead
and one garage Will refer you 20 one
in the next place and usually you get
good treatment,
Shortly after Ieaving Yuma, at II a
h., we ran into a bad spot Of mud in !
the road and sank 70 the aXles an in
dian was nearby blowing in a field. but
his two horses did not bulge US Two
freight wagons came along, ana they I
put eight horses uG the car. but failed
to bulge it Finally, with a heavy pole (
we priced the rear wheels out 0f the
mud, piled brush under them and pulled
put 1t was three o'clock in the after :