El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-07
TOURING IN ASTUTZIN EFAR
NORTH AND THE CENT TRIAL WEST
H Lester of FL Paso Drives Up Into Canada Again,
Crosses Illinois and Iowa, Has His Car Rebuilt
and Heads for the East-Part of the Chronicle
of Cross Country Tour.
By c. H. LESTER. of FL Paso.

when the storm broke-the same storm
! that in Winnipeg tore many roofs off
! buildings wrecked others broke many
I large trees and did vast damage TO
! crops in Manitoba and saskatchewan
! The next morning we ran into the
B city and remained until noon Of the
: followind day Although the -oads
! We're muddy in places. We reached
Grand Forks at that evening in a
light sprinkle that developed into a
general rain.
Sees Woman Killed.
After dinner L was sitting in the Of
1 flee looking out al the rain falling and
thinking of the hOrrid roads we would
have next day. when a woman stepped
into the street from behind the hotel
taxi and directly in front of a rapidly
moving touring car. She neither
stopped. looked or listened, but in her
rashness, died.
The next morning We had the hardest
puI Of any day since We left Il PasO-
It was not slippery, but for miles and
miles we just plowed two burrows
through that heavy gumbo; all day
long IL was intermediate and low gear
Work About we crossed the river
into Minnesota. TO Halstead. and
stopped just before another heavy rain.
Into Illinois.
Two days later We reached Water
town and still Mrs l. was not ready to
clearance papers and after lunch start
ed for Illinois We ran nearly south
10 Canton by the way Of Sioux Falls
mat afternoon / mad been IN one Of
the largest small grain sections OF the
United States for some time Cwheat.
oats. barley and flax. but al Sioux
Falls I entered the greatest corn pro-
ducing d1ktrict We have-that OF south
ern South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois
The next day We passed south
through Sioux City to OnOwa- Iowa.
where We turned east and picked up
the Lincoln highway at DennisOn and
which we followed as FAR east as Sterl-
ing. H. having crossed the Mississippi 1
at Clinton. Iowa.
Iowa and Illinois. We found much very
rough road. although in places il was
very good / have learned that IL takes
more 10 make a road than drawing a
red pencil mark across a map. placing
a few road markers and doing lots OF
shouting
Great Normal school
At Sterling We turned south 10
Bloomington. passing through FL Paso /
en- route. This run took us through a
large coal producing district Of MI
nois that extended nearly to Bloom
ington- Just north OF the city we
passed through Normal-site Of what
IS. said 10 be the largest school I'm the
United states for the training Of school
teachers Just east Of Bloomington we
found farm tractor demonstration /
snOw-aisO- later one near Indian
2poiis. Ind. while one had Just closed |
AT Marshalltown. Iowa. just before we |
"a AAAS- 10 e muIlDeE OF 4
small tractors were blowing and the
large number Of people present were ,
greatly interested in the machines as |
practlca be farm equipment
On Aug Z we reached Clifford. Ill,
another old home OF mine before going
to the northwest, and. settled down to /
another swapping of yarns
Car Is Rebuilt.
few days later We ran over TO In
Annapolis where the SturZ company
took my car to pieces for inspection
md replacement Of any worn parts. !
When they had il all disassembled u (
ooked as though I only had a pile OF I
Junk and would have TO walk back |
he old one had been badly damaged by
ogs in SnOQualmie pass and By rock /
n North Dakota; also a new storage |
'attery- Judging by the way the car
-uns and pulls since. I guess they found |
/ place for all the pieces.
How Land Grows In Value.
7 returned 10 Clifford. III and re-
NAMED there until Sept. ( when / drove /
% Chicago to prepare for the long run
% the Atlantic coast While al Gift
ord I was in a very wealthy agrfcul-
ural district, probably the richest and
most productive in Illinois. To me- Il /
g a striking illustration Of what time. !
mercy and thrift can accomplish where /
latural conditions are favOrabl As a
title nov / herded cattle over prairie |
and that now can not be bought for ]
ess than 5000 70 $500 an acre and |
which. at that time could be bought in !
arEe tracts at s. 10 s. dollars and was J
Considered a risky purchase al that
Wealthy Country Church.
While there visited a German Luth-