The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-09-25
TO KANSAS and BACK
IN AUTO
Ed Wells Tells of Experiences on
Way, Route Travelled
and Sights.

bothered The Index readers for some
time, so we are going to give you a
double dose and tell what we have
been doing.
! On the 14th Of August Kirk Landers
and wife and myself and family start
ed by auto to Kansas. Kirk drove an
Overland, while | had road louse We
/ went out by Mountain Home and
across to Pocatello. The road through
here from Dietrich to American Falls
isn't worthy of the name. From PocA-
tello to Soda Springs was nice drive
through mountain country with good
roads. We camped at Soda Springs,
where nature has provided . free soda
fountain, provided You furnish the
sugar. From here we travelled south
down the west side of Bear Lake rs
far south as Evanston, Wyo. Here we
took up the Lincoln Highway. That
is marked across the U. s., and We
want to say right here that the fel-
low that marked the Lincoln Highway
understood his business. The mark
ings are systematically the same
through the desert and the larger
cities. Each turn is marked and the
distance to the next towns. A road
that tourist can travel day or night
and know that he has the right road
means everything to him. We found
other roads that were we'll marked on
paper, and well marked on the high
way for a ways, maybe 200 miles, and
RnI1
commenced to shirk on the Job or
maybe he died. From Evanston vel
travelled northeast by way of Green
River and Rock Springs, both mining
towns. From Rock Springs 10 Raw
lins, distance of 112 miles, b the
Red desert of Wyoming. From here
we went to Laramie From EvaMtuR
to Laramie we didn't see much evi-
dence of an agricultural eeantry. Whz4
little grazing country there Is thnSzh
was burnt up with drouth- Prom I.rR-
mie, and around CheysAs Pastux
looked better.
From Cheyenne we dropped over
into the Platte river valley and fol- |
lowed it down to Kearney Nebr. Thi.. |
country through here always thou-'-t |
was the cream of Nebraska. There is |
some irrigated land thruugh here and |
on this crops looked fine, and you can
buy this land for $400 per acre, and !
nothing said about the climate. The |
dry land crops of the Platte bottom
as far as Grand Island, Neb., on the
whole were not as good as they were |
expecting-too much rain for wheat
and not enough for corn. However,
land values run around $500 per acre.
But there is one thing though, that
looks nice here. That is, the farm
buildings all look good. From Kear-
ney, Neb., we left the red, white and
blue pole road and took south to Smith
Center, Kan, the place where we had
spent 35 to 40 years of our lives, hav-
ing been on the road nine days in all
We stayed three weeks here and then
we didn't get our feet under half the
.ables we would have liked to.
On the return, we went west through
Kansas ways, and northwest to
Sterling, Neb., and across to Ft- Cob
ins and up the LaPoudre valley to Tie
Siding. This is an irrigated country,
1000 feet high, and is one of the rich
,st valleys in Colorado. Land values
lere run from 5000 to 5000 per acre
Soil is of a red, sticky nature, having
he appearance of being heavy to
york in places. 1t rained on US through ,
lere all the afternoon and that was ,
me night that the ground was too
oft to sleep on and the next morning
he mountain to the west of US was
overed with senow.' y
From Tie Siding we followed the |
anne trail back to Evasion, then On !
outhwest down the canyon to Echo ]
'ity. Through here the night before q
ad been a water spout and in places (
he road was filled with rock, brush =
nd the low places were full of water. b
was slow going, but we made it b
trough all right. 1t was here that
lrk immersed his engine and she
efused to do another thing until she 4
OF on some dry clothing. !e
From Echo City to Ogden was one n
{ the prettiest canyon drives | have
yer seen. From Ogden out through
igham is q great productive country. d
long the main road is like the con- t,
unation of one town to the other. I
rom here we put across to Albion ns
nd over to Burley and Twin Falls
his is sure great productive coun-
y and well improved, but we didn't pl
It to see as much of it as we would nj
i've liked, because the dust blew so el
lick that at times we couldn't see IN
e front end of the radiator.
There was lots Of hay around Buhs !.
ID the farmers said they were gett- 81
& $1s per ton in stack and the hay u
IS beirg shipped to Wymoing and Pi
ontana- We drove out to Shoshone ne
Ills where the Snake river makes
O-foof atrnirht drop-A Si1ht that