The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-03
SCOUT CAR FOR
SIERRA HIGHWAY
TWO MEN IN SMALL CAR AHh
ON DIFFICULT
TRIP


any other known auto, established
a record for itself when its jour
ney from Sacramento to Carson
City, was completed as far as Gold
field Saturday night. Having been
smashed out of recognition as it
left the factory. later to be lost in
the waters of the Pacific, and then
rescued, and having had a halt
dozen owners, it finally was pre-
scented to Fl. T. Kuhlman, me-
chanic inspector for the Chevrolet
company.
And Car No. 1, having been driv-
en- $1,000 miles with its original
tires, is in excellent condition today.
despite the fact that it plowed It's
way through several feet of snow
in crossing the Sierra mountains.
After a tough battle with 20
and ice on its trip over the Sier-
ras, carrying Governor Johnson's
preparedness message to Governor
Boyle of Nevada, the San Francisco
Examiners national defense scout
carr arrived in Goldfield late Sat
ulday evening.
This car, the first built in the
Oakland factory of the Chevrolet
company, had travelled over $1,000
miles IN the tires On which it left
the factory before starting on the
present trip. 1t is being driven by
Fl. T. Kuhlman, an automobile
driver with a national reputation
as a cross-county pilot, the same
nan who drove the pilot car of the
indianapolis tour into Goldfield in
1910 and who, with A. l.. West
gard, representing the National
Highway association, had charge of
the 1911 tour that blazed the way
for the Lincoln highway. Travelling
with Huffman, as representative
of the Examiner in charge of the
expedition, is AL G.. Waddell.
The purpose of the trip of the
W. men over the Sierras in the
middle of winter is to call the ~.
tention of the national government
to the necessity of an all-year civil
commercial and military highway
about 500 miles in length, from
Lakeview, Ore, near the bound
airy line, southwark along the east
ern base of the Sierra Nevada moun
tains to Los Angeles, with branches
across the mountains. the improve
ment of which is designed to rem
der the United States invincibIe
along one-half of its western Dor
der by providing a roadway as AMI
inner line of defense over which
portions of an army may be quick
" shifted by motor transport from
point to point on the eastern side
of the Sierras, using the mountains
as a natural line of defense.
The bill for the construction of
tits highway was introduced last
July in the House of Representa-
tives by Hon. John E. Raker Of
California. The estimated cost of
construction is $4,000, 900, one
fourth to be borne by California,
one-fourth by Nevada and one-half
by the national government, the
road to be open for the use of the
oONOi" PuoAiS liOC Vi luis
The advantage of such a hig'
way and the proposed snow-shed-
covered branches across the Siey-
ras in time of war is proven by the
trip taken by the Examiner car,
in which it has been demonstrated
that instead of making a round
about trip of approximately 1,4O0
miles from Sacramento over the
mountains of southern California
before being able to urn north in
to Nevada, the proposed route
would enable a car to reach it's
destination in this state in from
16 to IS hours.
The car left Sacramento on Thurs
cay. Jan. II, travelling south tn
bakersfield and then, despite the
fact that at all pointos along the
route they were told not to at
tempt the rip into Nevada, the
two men, travelling through snow at
times higher than the car itself,
made their way over the summit
by way of Mojave. Independence
and Big Pine and the Midland trail
to Goldfield.
Three and a half miles out Of
Big Pine the car became stuck IN
the drifts and they made just 400
yards in II hours through eight
feet of snow. The car left Deep
Springs on Saturday morning at o
O'Clock, going from there to Oasis,
where Kuhlman and Waddell had
their first trouble on the trip. a
runcture. They had their second
trouble, another puncture, near the
Consolidated mill as they were en-
tering Goldfield.
kaufman and Waddell left herae
sunday morning. continuing on '
their way to Carson with the worst