The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-07-01
Auto Tourist Who has Drive,
More Than 5000 N. es GNas
Result OF 0bservatioas.
NO TWO GOOD ROAIS ALIKE
Don't Take Strange Road at More
Than 20 Miles an Hour" His Ad.
vice-Car Doesn't Drive Twice
Alike in Any Roadway.

Little Falls, N. Y.-Archie Baker
claims to be a confirmed automobile
tourist Of long and varied experience.
He says he has driven upward Of So
300 miles in his 1916 seven-passenger
six; and the car looked 1t when Archie
and his family pulled out beside the
road just west of Small Gulf, between
Little Falls and Herkimer, to camp
n one of the most noted of Mohawk
valley tourist parking places.
Baker and his wife and twelve
yecr-old son and ten-year-old daughter
said that touring agrees with them.
They gave the impression Of having
an Independent income.
MY experience is that lot Of
tourists don't know very much, and
don't stop to learn anything, either"
said Mr. Baker. 1.-THE result is, they
have lot of hard knocks. When we
were coming into New York state,
about $50 miles from here, we turned
off down side road to camp by Lake
IHClc was I'LL Oullll uON ii ny
the lake which claimed they had had
lot of hard luck. They dished a
wheel; they tore up tire; they lost
tent off the back end of the load !;
they slept cold nights, and they were
Just about ready to quit. But,
Shucks they won't quit Nobody
ever does quit once the family have
gone to touring right-the way it
ran be done. Their dished wheel in
terested me. The man claimed he
didn't drive fast, but he skidded,
caught the weight of the car on the
right rear wheel, and smashed it all
a-blim.
"This was on strange road. out in
indiana, he said and it sure did look
all right. But 1t smashed him, and
Il was pure tuck that he didn't roll
over. asked him about the kind Of
road, and he couldn't tell me; said
4 was pretty muddy, but had gravel
On 1t too.
There you are! He smashed up
and was taught LESION, and didn't
know what the lesson was. The fact
Is there are more than 200 different
kinds Of good roads in the United
States. I've been on most kinds. I'll
recite q few Of them--mOuntain
contract roads. stone water-bound
concrete roads, oil waste ronds,
gravel, sand and clay, broken down
stone roads, cut and fill crushed
stone surface, cinder. shell. bank
gravel. beach gravel, desert two
trackers, and go on.
mo Two Good Roads Alike"
mo two good roads are alike.
Good and careful driver as | am.
| darn near rolled over out west Of
Salt Lake City last summer, skid
Ding In the dust-dry, fluffy dust.
Why, II I'd been driving 20 miles
instead Of careful IL miles an hour,
led rolled end over applscart. and
It was good road, If you tnew how
to drive 1t. Yes. sir. There is not
road In all this United States, not
The best, widest. finest. smoothest
road. that isn't treacherous IL r~n's
not used to 1t. ] don't mean Wild
eyed hummers, but just common foll-s
ike me.
IF you don't believe 1t, you study
The road accidents you come upon as
YOU ride across the country. Half
he skidding is done where the road
type changes. where man leaves
concrete and hits oil surface or where
he leaves the waterbound stcne for
GARD pan.
"A car doesn't drive twice alike on
any roadway from New York to San
francisco. know. because I've made
the trip. Where do tourists coming
east bang up with trouble? It's when
they come Off bad roads into good
roads. You take the western part Of
New York state, and people leaving
ME good roads Of Ohio after crsvs'ug