Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-17
OVER THE DIXIE HIGHWAY

Tho distance between Detroit.
Michigan. and Yorkville. South Caro-
lima is a little over thirteen hundred
miles That is. by the best roads.
There is n shorter way through over
the mountains of Ohio, West Virginia,
Virginia. and North Carolina; but
thai Is a much longer way around.
The most practicable route from De-
troit 10 Yorkville is through Ohio
Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama and
Georgia.
This is according to Mr.. s. L.
Courtney Of the York Motor Car Co..
who with a party Of friends. last
week brought through a dozen cars
from Detroit and Cincinnati. They
went after the cars by rail and
brought them back over the high
WAY The entire trip took just ten
days. not quite four days going and
littl. over four days coming back.
"And let me tell you." said Mr.
Courtney. in talking about the trip
there are some good roads along
that route. Some OF the road Is btu
lithic. some asphalt and some sand
and CLAY, OF course the bitulithic and
asphalt roads are the best; but In
good weather like we had on this
trim, the old sand -and-clay is hard tc
beat.
"We took our time along the road
cont;nurJ Mr.. Courtney. Sometimes
we went along at the rate OF about
thirty miles an hour; but the average
s,p.cd was only q little more than 2Ot
miles n day. We planned our schedule
from day 10 day so as to find good
stopping place at night, and had ne
trouble OF course, about dinner
Among the important towns through
which we passed were Covington and
Louisville. KY, Nashville, Tennessee
Huntsville and New Hope, Alabama
Mcrietta and Atlanta. Ga, Anderson
and Grecnville, 5. c.. back home. We
LOST ONLY eleven miles out OF tho
whole thirteen hundred by going Over
the wrong road, and our wheel. tire
lamp. engine and other troubles
amounted to almost nothing.
1T is certainly fine countr,
through which we passed." Mr.
Courtney declared. up in Ohit
and Kentucky we saw thousands o.
acres of grain. crimson clover, iock'
ami herds, sheep and the like. Tht
roads are lined mainly with greer
hedges and rock walls, and the homes
generally look prosperous. But those
people up there do not waste mucf
time talking to you. We stopped a
one farm house and asked for water
The woman who was evidently thu
mistress, said: Wells in the from
yard, buckets at the well. here's
dipper.' That was all. or course W.
were Just travellers and were not look
ing for attention. AS we came Int
the larger towns we put up at a hotel
took q bath, brushed up and ther
went sight seeing for a few hours
Over at Anderson some OF the cit!
officials showed us the courtesy o
making us welcome and assuring III
that they would like to do anything
| In their power to contribute to oul
pleasure. p Upon the whole, however
theNfnYas thoroughly enjoyable"
r1E Courtney sid i'll ne Vent ate,
these cars because that was the onl!
way to get them. 1t Is next 10 Inn
possible to get them by freight. HI
calculates that the cost Of bringing
cars through the country. however. !:
about twice as great as bringing then
over the railroad. But the bigges
trouble is getting cars any kind o
way. He had about forty orders OF
| file when he went to Detroit. ant
twelve cars was all he could get
Two of these he got from another
dealer. I'm three months from now,
he predicted, "the price of second
hand cars will be higher than thu
price of new cars. Ford has fixed hi!
own price and the dealer is limited n:
to the number he can deliver. The In
dividual owner, Of course, Is at libert!
to get us much as the purchaser !:
willing to pay.