Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-30

IS lOCdl agent, IS lHe IOllONlHS dFllCle written by James Arnold of Bisbee which describes a recent extended trip which he made in a five-passenger Chevrolet:
 q left Bisbee at 12 o'clock on April the first for Mount Vernon, Ky. was going to Fl Paso from here and then to Kansas City. and through St Louis to Terre Haute, Ind, where meant to stop a week with relatives.
 'Tt was about 7:3O in the evening of April 1 that I arrived in Hachita, N. M.. having passed two big cars and another one broken down between Douglas and Rodeo. There were five of us in the car five-passenger Chevrolet, and about 300. pounds of groceries, bedding and cooking ma terials.
 "On the morning of April we left Hachita by way of Deming, arriving in Fl Paso about 5:3O in the after noon. We had good road all the way except a few miles out of Dem ing, where it was very sandy, but We had no trouble with the car beyond one puncture. I went to the Fl Paso Auto Club to find out the best road to Kansas City, but was told it was impossible to get there. so I had to go to Fort Worth.
 We had good road all the way to Pecas City, but from there on to Fit. Worth it was almost impossible. Be tween Pecas and Grand Falls we went through a swamp,wit h the water right up to the engine. It was about 600 feet across this water. and twen- ty miles from the nearest town. I thought every minute the car would stop. We got into Grand Falls about eight in the evening, having made about Is miles an hour from Pecas to Grand Falls.
 From Grand Falls to Midland which was our next objective. was S5 miles without a house or a drop of water on the whole trip. l filled the car with gas and oil and my canteen with water and left Grand Falls at ' o'clock in the morning. About 20 miles out of the road forked-or rath- CT the trail forked, for one could hard ly call it a road-and naturally took the wrong road. I drove until the speedometer registered 90 miles, and then I knew I had made mis- take. The only sign of civilization saw was a dead COW every now and then and one vacant house.
 At last I came to a town. but knew it was not Midlands. At a gar age was told that the town was Ger win, and that Midland was 105 miles away. I was told to go to Eastland, about 250 miles from Gervin, and we passed through the prettiest country we saw on the whole trip. We had a regular highway, and I opened the car up to about 35 miles an hour all the way.
 From Eastland to Breckenridge was about 60 miles, and it took me 10 hours to drive 1t. I had to be pulled out of three mud holes and could not drive faster than a horse can trot. I marvelled that the car could hold together, and I told my mother that even if it fell all to pieces I would still say the Chevrolet was the best car on earth, for the farther I went the better the car worked and had not yet even bought a spark plug.
 From Breckenridge as far as Big Spring I can't describe the road as there was no road to describe. I passed one mud hole in which three big trucks were stuck, two of them driven by two well-known Bisbee boys-Roland Sullivan and Curry Hargass. I finally got to Big Spring and from there to Fort Worth we had a paved road This certainly seemed good, for I had begun to think that there was no such thing as a paved road in Texas.
 From Fort Worth l meant to go to St. Louis but I was told by the automobile club there that could not go north, south or east, and hardly west. As a could not afford to lay over until the roads dried, I started for Little Rock, Arkansas.
 From Fort Worth to Texicana l should judge it to be about 250 miles, and it took me four days to drive 1t. We went over the Dixie Highway but in what places 1t was not torn up by road workers, it was washed out by floods.
 From Texicana to Little Rock the road was fairly good except in places. although there were hills that were almost straight up and down. and l believe no car but a Chevrolet could have made them. The only signs of civilization between Texicana and Lit tie Rock were truckers and mules and cotton.
 From Little Rock to Memphis was 160 rnilaS We had good roads until