Arizona republican., 1919-02-23
HARMON PERFORMED
 MIGHTY STUNTS IN COLORADO ROCKIES

Mountains are not always sheer joy to motorists. Especially in the Color ado Rockies, one occasionally finds the trip is not one of unmixed pleasure If his car is a bit lame.
 Tt is different with W. ". BlalSer of PAaasonton, kan.,' says the local dealer in MaIrnon motor cars. He made trips in and about the mountains of Color ado over some of the highest ranges and wrote the following letter from Steamboat Springs:
 We have had some trip in the new Marmon. expected more or less trouble in the mountains. but she climbs them all like an airplant without missing a shot. and we have been over the highest they have in the state, and up to date she has not boiled once. We drove from Canyon City tO Colorado Springs and return on high. which is some record
 'All | can say-she is some noun tsh boat
 A word or two Gas the orator says when he launches into a phlupic) about Steamboat Springs may prove cndurable to the readers Of The Re- publican. The name sounds moist. but the place is dry as finder. lt may give the reader who lives in the east or middle west an idea of a shallow stream a flat -bOttomed river boat and 60 mouruful whistle sounding through tho river country. The facts are far different Perhaps the writer's intro- duction Co the country of Steamboat springs will serve as a description of the place and the motoring conditions abe found in this section of the Rocky mountains
 I'D begin with. the customer usually apiroaches Che Springs by one or two routes. He goes in or. rather, mp from ncnver or rom Colorado Springs llCrc's the way one party of mellow tcnderfoOt motorists approached the place some time ago. Denver lies. as most people know, about 5000 feet abo}e the sea. One then travels west and south from Denver and begins to climb very rapidly toward Golden and ldabo Springs. Then the elevator is tIlied again and one begins to soar or craNl slowly Caccording to his car) up. up. lp toward Bald mountain. then up Herthoud pass ll.a06 feet above sea lcvel. lt is a good half days climb Co this lofty perch. and that day. sev- curl years ago. We saw more than one of the party of twenty cars be- ing helped up by hand and shoulder power.
 Zowie. The poor passengers in the littlc spiders that didn't have quite enough power Co make the grade. How they did puff as they labOred with shoulders on the spare tire in the rear. Evay breath was an agony and one tall factory executive went blue about hl.. HH "a saF 4Ie | 1u.o0 feet and better is not at all recreation unless one has the heart and lnngs of an athlete and is used to altitIde
 lt was hot work. inside and out. Water botls at 2 degrees less for every 1000 feet one climbs. At 5000 feet the water bois at 196. just about where the motor does it's best work There she boils," is one of the com modest expressions in mountain mo- toring. Motors good in every other respect often boil away like a teapot on a jag. Then the car stops. The wise man points the nose of the radia- tor into the wind and waits for tho old girl to cool off before trying an other go at old MT. Altitude, Misstress Ral1fied Air and General Mountain .IeVersity. This operation of pushing and puffing, stopping to cool when sh, boiled was repeated many, many time. in scaling the continental divide ir those days. To make a grade in any way was a triumph. To go up in higi and without boiling was blasphemou. prevarication.
 To climb the equaliyy steep and a. difficult ranges of Park and Cor, mountains. as did Mir. Blaker, and [, make the journey from Canyon Citl to Colorado Springs on high on tn, grades and not have the motor boi once is great achievement
 one wag, after ascending the conti. nenfal divide where it. is really steeJ was asked what he thought of tht rnnd IL Maa nVnning ana he lnl