Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-28
Fourth Page of the Automobile Section

oftimes the tail light glares redly | nto the headlights, we can safely say that our respect has increased.
 Santa Fe Interesting Santa Fe is another interesting des- ert town, and aside of being the cap ital of the State, is the center from which many worthy trips may be made. The roads leading out of Santa Fe to the east have been wonderfully improved within the last two years. A high, wide road with decomposed granite facing that invites speed over it's smooth surface leads to the rugged and scenically beautiful Glorietta Mountains. This mountain road, of a length that can hardly be called a pass, winds in and out, up and down for 75 miles until Los Vegas is reach ed.
 A wonderful sun awoke us the next morning and better road conditions improved cur dispositions. The coun- try beyond Los Vegas is high roll ing mesa prairie land with only an oc- casionaly depression. These small and deep valleys flashed like green jade in the early morning sun and held some splendid alfalfa patches and blooded stock farms.
 Press Agents Indicated
 With the good roads that lead to Springer continuing, we were soon looking forward to the Raton Pass that would carry us out of New Mex ico and into Colorado. The press agents have been vindicated for all they have said of this pass in what we found, though none of them have mentioned that best roads in New Mexico are to be found there. Four teen miles of this pass, with an alti- tude of S790 feet reached, give road engineering a severe test and have produced highway without criticism.
 Just after the summit has been passed the State of Colorado is enter ed. Suddenly the scenery changes and also the type of road building. Coal mines adorn every hillside and black faced miners pop out of holes in the ground like so many ants.
 Colorado has good native road material in this limestone and has used it with success. On top of sub stantial sub-grade they have made water bound surface that continually recalls the roads of France. Trinidad is Colorado's first city to the north of the Raton Pass.
 It would not have been quite the thing to make camp without some lit- tie hard luck, and we had it. A large and vicious tack held us up for a tire change and forced a camp some 20 miles from Trinidad.
 We had left the National Old Trails 1t Trinidad and were on the Colorado o Gulf Highway.
 Mountains Deceive
 Walsenburg was the only town of 'ize to pass through until Pueblo was cached, 92 miles from Trinidad. The 'oad conditions were of the best and he country of rolling hill type with he surrounding peaks fringed with 'ines. The Wet Mountains were a de- eiving sight and we seemed to be lear all morning though never were md at last passed them still miles to he east at noon.
 Gasoline was stopped for at Pueblo md then began a wicked drive of A niles to Colorado Springs. Driving mostly up hill on a soft sand covered 'oad We bucked a 40-mile wind all the vay.
 Colorado Springs was disappoint- nent in that it was not at all like the place we had pictured. Every city las it's Wiltshire district and that of he Springs has no rival and serves IS the outlet toward Castle Rock.
 The valley becomes narrower and he scenery more appealing as the niles pass on this road. Twenty miles out the town of Monument is passed. This place is named for the queer stone formation that sticks out at in 'ervals from the sloping sides of the mountains. These stones resemble and rise in gigantic size