Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-20
NORTHLAND ROADS
ARE IN GOOD SHAPE
Says Brownie, Auto Editor of
Milwaukee Journal, In
5,OOO-mile Trip Over
Trunk System.

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tive section of the Milwaukee Jour.
nal, pulled up at the Review office
Monday morning or his arrival from
Amigo, with but 1900 miles to go to
finish his 5000-mile trip OF the state
highway trunk system. At the rate
he was going and with the promise Of
dry weather ahead of him, the first
he had struck since starting the trip
three weeks ago, he expected to finish
up the iaunt this week. From Eagle
River he went to Rhinelander cutting
westward across the state on the
final lap homo.
Driving the Victory Mitchell, a new
car that is successfully undergoing
the severe test of the steady grind,
Brownie and his companion, Mr.. Pitf,
also of the Journal, had many Incl
dents of the road to relate. And not
the least interesting among them TO
us was the excellent way in which
they spoke of the highways as they
had found them in the northern end
of the state. Before coming to Eagle
River they had covered the Door
county country, the much advertised
CloVerland region. Consequently they
had been having a taste Of good roads
which they hardly expected to find
farther north. But the time Brownie
made between Amigo and Villas
county's capital proved to him that
not all the good roads are in the east
ern and southern parts of the state.
He spoke very pleasingly of the coun-
ty highways he had found here and
the manner in which they were being
maintained, stating that one-half of
the good roads problem was overcome
when the matter of maintenance was
solved.
Journal readers who have been fol-
lowing the trip of the Victory Mitch
ell throughout the state during
Brownies jaunts have been interested
in the road conditions as he found
them and local people who have the
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be pleased to learn that the highways
in the northern part of the state are.
ahead of those in many sections that
are much older. His trip has been.
made under adverse conditions. With
the exception of this week there had
been rain every day which made the
going hard, cut down the mileage,
and in some places put the Mitchell
to its hardest tests in extricating it,
from several bad holes. His trip had
many amusing features and being a
motorist of wide and varied expert
ences, believed he had struck about
everything the average auto tourist
encounters in the trials of the road.
But he found a new one on his trip
north. In turning out to let another
car pass on a well crowned but mar.
row highway, the ground on the side
gave way and he was in completely.
The harder he worked to eXtricate
himself the deeper in the marsh he
sunk until finally he gave up all hope
of aver getting out without lacking
up the car and building a pontoon I'M
der it. But a farmer with a big black
team Chats the way Brownie puts it,
came along and in a few minutes tile
Mitchell was on its feet again. Now
comes the strange part of it. The
farmer would not accept anything for
his labor. For the first time in all of
of his motoring experience Brownie
had found the one man who didn't
charge to haul out a stalled car. And
from now on Brownie has a good
word for the farmers in the northern
part of the state and the roads which
they are building.