Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-08-22
IN % STATES ON
AUTOMOBILE TRIP
|. E. Holden and Family Visited
Many Points
Variety of Crop Conditions Noted-Dry
in Montana While Opposite Situation
Prevails in South Dakota.

When interviewed by a representative
of The Phoenix Tuesday morning, l.. Il.
Holden, who with Mrs. Holden, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest V. Barre and r. II. Mes
senger returned Saturday from an ex-
tended automobile trip in the West,
gave an interesting account of the trip,
which covered 7,73S miles and took
them into % different states. During
this time they were 10 days on the road,
stopping at all places of interest and
remaining several days at some of the
more interesting points.
The party left Brattleboro June 8,
going by way of North Adams into New
York state, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
where they visited at Wilkes Barre
with Mr.. and Mrs Lyman II. Howe.
From there they proceeded to Gettys-
burg. Hagerstown, Md, and to Wheel
ing, West Va. where they were shown
all through the steel rolling mills from
which Holden & Martin buy goods and
from which concern they secured passes
before leaving Brattleboro. Leaving
Wheeling they continued on through
the state of Ohio, into Kentucky, where
they visited the famous Mammoth
Cave, also stopping in Louisville.
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from which city they went to Kansas
City, driving west through the state and
on TO Colorado Springs. They remained
there Il week and during that time Wis
tied all places of interest, making a
trip in their automobile to the summit
of Pike s Peak, which is over $4,000
feet high. An interesting feature of
the trip up the mountain was the fact
that while the water appeared to boil
in the engine, one could put his hand
into the water, as the altitude is so
high that it is almost impossible to
bring it to a boiling point Of heat. 1t
is said that it would take over an hour
to cook an egg, soft boiled, ON the sum
nit of the mountain.
Leaving Colorado Springs, they next
visited Denver, where they remained
four days and spent some time in the
Rocky Mountain Park and Estces Park,
which is Il government reservation.
Continuing on to Cheyenne, Wyoming,
they found conditions in this state not
as good. Due TO the lack of rain every
thing was drying up and the farmers
were selling off such of their cattle
which had not already died from lack of
water. The crops were in Il pitiable
condition, due to the dryness. The OPP
posite was true in Kansas, where the
crops were immense and everything
was fourishing. While touring through
Kansas, they covered 200 miles a day.
Yellowstone Park, which was the
fartbest west that the party travelled,
was the next stop, and here they re-
manned seven days amid unexcellcd
scenery.
The return trip was through Mon
tana, which, except in the low land,
where irrigation can be carried on, is
terribly dry, to North and South Da-
kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here
they visited several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. James Pullcn i'll their home in
Fond du-Lac. Mr.. and Mrs. Pullcn for
merly lived in this town.
The conditions in Montana and South
Dakota are just opposite. In Montana
the farmers, on account of the dryncss
will not be able to get their seed back
and in South Dakota there has been so
much wet weather that the wheat is
rusting.
From Milwaukee they went to Chica-
90, not stopping long there on account
of the trouble in the city with the Ne
groes. A visit to the Mishawaka
Wooden Mfg. Co., in Mishawaka, Ind,
of which Durham Brothers Co. of Brat
tleboro are the New England agents
proved very interesting, especially be
cause of the local interest. In Detroit
they were shown through the Packard
automobile plant, Mr.. Holden owning
u car of that make, which he drove
during the trip.
Mr. Holden kept an accurate account
of gasoline used on the trip and founC
that Il gallon would cover little ovel
{ nine miles. He states that the hote
rates in the West are cheaper than they
are in the East. for the same class o
hotel, and the farther west one goes
the cheaper the rate. He also say
that in his opinion, and from his oh
servation, there are no people in thu
+, United States that are so well fed an'
clothed and so well situated, every
thing taken into consideration, even tt
social conditions, as the people of tn
| New England states.