Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1922-09-07

resort hotels seem not to have been
notified that the war Is over-some-
body ought to tell them.
OF course every tourist talks about
the roads. Kansas has much to learn
from its neighboring states. The
roads seem to be better everywhere
else--except In Missouri. Nebraska
and Colorado and Wyoming have
state road systems and the roads are
wonderful. No matter how good they
seem, gangs Of men with tractors
and great road planners are working
on them making them better. The
road from Limon to Denver is well
nigh perfect, with easy grades and a
beautiful road bed. Colorado Is also
building new roads all through the
Is a boulevard that anybody can
drive. From the Park over the Mil
ner Pass has Just been opened new
state road. 1t climbs by zigzag
track up the side Of mountain, to
10000 feet, the highest automobile
road In the world, far above timber
line and with snow alongside 1t at
the top. A string Of cars goes over |
1t, some with green drivers, and how
they do dread 1t. How do you keep |
from running off this narrow road |
into the Canyons II nervous passen-
ger asked Of the driver Of a big sight |
seeing car who was sliding along |
down the switchbacks In informed
late. II don't drive the canyons"
he replied, II drive the road" But
with a half mile drop yard away
1t Is rather nervous work for the
amateur. The mountain resident
takes 1t as easily as does an Abb
leneite the hard surfaced road east
Of town. New mountain roads are
being built every where, all wide and
graveled. For rs miles south Of
such road leads across
the prairies, the wide plains where
cattle ranches and irrigation plants
abound. The same sort Of road leads
over the Medicine Bow range
through endless pine forests where
railway ties by the million are piled
'aiting shipment. II
Few accfdenrs occur in the noun
aims but when one does the driver
md his passengers go home in
,oxes. Usually they result from los
ng control Of the car when shifting
years. No one who cannot shift 4
years going up or down and do It
quickly has any business driving the
roads. The Miner Pass
" Fall River road Is considered the
hardest drive in Colorado. But away !.
lp you will come on a fivver load
ID down with men, women and chill
lren, household goods, camping
'utfit, plugging along, or resting
while the engine cools. Every body :
ries II once.
One wouru mink that with such
wonderful gravel Colorado would
tick to granite covered roads but II ]
5 finding them costly where travel
3 heavy. A concrete road is being
'uilt from Denver to Colorado
springs; another from Denver to IT.
'ollins, part of 1t being complete;
wenty- five miles Is complete from
)enver toward Greeley. These roads
re like those built In Dickinson, 10
eet wide. A gravel road Is delight.
VI for driving, but Il will not stand
p under the traffic the principal =
ighways now have. Convict labor
J used on the mountain roads but
are let for the concrete I
ighways. 4
The farmers Of Dickinson county y
nay think they have q hard time In IC
he drop In prices for products but
hey would not change places with
hose Of the rich irrigated district
round Greeley and 1T. Collins
here the farms are watefed and
he owners are strong for feeding
heep and lambs. In 1919 they
ought a sheep at $14 and fed them, :
cling at $21. The next year. see I
lg fortunes ahead. they plunged
nd again bought at $14-but theyl
Did ut 81. As a result their places
re mortgaged, their banks carrying A
eavy burdens and generally there Il a
hard road to travel back to norruH
,nditiona. But they are hopefu' /.
Tough not trying to make fortunes y