Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-22
ROOT CORRECTS MEASUREMENTS
REGARDING N. M. CONTAINED In
SATURDAY EVENING POST STORY
Secretary of Las Vegas Commercial Club
Calls Editors Attention to Many Inaccur-
acies; Believes the Writer Travelled Too
Rapidly on Her Trip Through State.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO MORNING JoURNAL)

Il TO MORNING JOURNhL)
The road is marked at every fork
and turn with signs erected by
the automobile club of Southern
California, and has been marked
for fully eight years, so that the
three-fork mentioned by Miss Put
nam as not being marked is not
known to any of us. In addition
the road Is marked at frequent
intervals by marble monuments
erected by the D. A. r. and which
show that the highway is a part
of the old historic Santa Fe trail
The same Ell Canine Real which
means 1.-THE Royal Road" ha:
been applied to this road fol-
years.
Miss Putnam Is incorrect in stat
ing that gasoline costs As cents in
Las Vegas; it never did reach that
figure, though for week last
summer 1t sold for 40 cents, while
now the price Is 80 cents. There
is mud in New Mexico as Miss Put
man intimates. So is there mud in
Pennsylvania or that dear Califor-
MIA. The is one thing about New
Mexico mud, however, that Is pecu-
liar--it Is here today and gone to.
morrow. Three or four hours after
the auto writer's had plowed
through this place they could have
passed through the same place
with something like ease, for our
roads have natural drainage and
the soil is such that it dries
rapidly.
AS to the heat: the mean maxi.
mum temperature for Las Vegas
In the month Of July is 1872 de-
grees. Las Vegas is 40 miles south
Of Wagon Mound, yet most Of u:
find perspiration unusual, though
we work for living and sleep un'
der blankets all summer. The av'
erage minimum temperature fol
July is 81 degrees. Naturally we
could not help but smile at Miss
, Putnam terrific heat" and won
der how sheafelt when In some par
Of the country that was really
warm.
Another Inaccuracy,
A slight inaccuracy in the state
ment Of Miss Putnam that her par
| ty passed through Canyon DiablC
before entering Las Vegas; Canyon
Diablo is located in Arizona, sew
eral hundred miles south and ives
OF here. A like inaccuracy is thu
statement that there are thre'
roads between here and Santa Fe
and all are bad; there is but ont
road, and while 1t Is not boule
ward, it Is passable, and l hav'
made the rs miles in F. d sedai
in four hours and ten minutes
I'm not Dragging about speeding
but simply giving you an idea o
What kind of a road 1t Is. Their
are many local people owning biz
cars, who make the trip regularl,
in little less than three hours
How Miss Putnam entered SAINT;
Fe through the Santa Fe canyol
on the way from Las Vegas /
more than / can explain, as Santi
Fe canyon is so located geograph
ically that tip of that kind |
Impossible just now. The canyol
she mentions is probably Apach
canyon and Glorieta pass, whicl
has an excellent road and whicl
was the scene of a bloody battl
during the civil war-somethinj
that most people do not know.
Canyon Is Passable.
The canyon Miss Putnam men
tons going through near WACO
Mound must have been Dog can
yon, which has p of rocks, blu
can not be so terribly bad, becaus
hundreds Of tourist cars travers
it every day. We are doing on
best to get rid Of the rocks whicl