The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1922-07-28
NEW YORK CITY
TO kEADR|Ck IDAHO
Outline Of Geo. p. Barnum's
Auto Trip From East.

From an educational standpoint
as well as for pleasure, coast to
coast trip by auto more than repays
the tourist tor the time and money
spent. In or adjacent to almost
every town and city touched by the
auto highways. are we'll equipped
tourists camp gounds, with shade,
electric lights, water, ovens and
fire wood supplied free of charge
by the municipality, and IN the
larger towns, tree oil or gas stoves,
lavatorles, toilets, shower baths and
rest rooms. In fact the autoist can
spend the season touring from point
to point without a worry as to
place to eat and sleep. All that is
need to make touring comfortable,
is the usual equipment of bedding,
tent and cooking utensils. Grocer.
les can be obtained either on the
grounds or within block or two.
During the touring season, at al
most any camp grounds will be
found cars bearing the license tags
OF practically every state IN the
Union, ana a good natured, happy,
.sociable bunch of people ready and
willing to help the less experienced
traveller, directing him to the best
roads and camps in any and all dir
sections.
At almost all filling and service
stations along the main travelled
routes, especially those maintained
by the Standard and Continental
Oil Companies, will be found cour-
teous, pleasant. wlde-awake en-
plcyees, ready to supply you with
road maps and information as to
routes and conditions IT roads.
The writer, with the object IN
view of seeing and studying the
conditions of crops and business in
different localities, chose a rather
round about way of reaching the
idaho panhandle.
Leaving New York City, July LIST,
with the car loaded with the neces-
;ary equipment for an extended tour,
crossing the Hudson river to Jersey
City, we picked up the Old National
Highway through Philadelphia, Viii.
mington, Pa, and Hagerstown to
Cumberland, Maryland for the first
nights stop-328 miles over a firs'
class cement. macadam and bricE
highway.
After pitching our tent and get
ting supper cooked and eaten, WI
Int. our pipes and got acquainted
with ou1 temporary neighbors.
The next two weeks were repe
tition of the first day with the US
ual variation of good roads, bat
roads, grand scenery and desert
Luck and no accidents or bad lucl
consisting of broken springs. slip
plug clutch, worn brake bands O.
blown out tires, all of which are al
expected part of the routine OF ira
yelling by auto. ~
From Cumberland, Md, we fol
lowed the Old National HlghWa
over the famous UniOntown grad
to the top of the Cumberland Noun
ta,ps. down through the rOllin
farm lands of West Virginia, Obi
and Indiana to Champaign, Illinois
From here we turned north by dir
roads and struck the famous Llncol
Highway at Dixon in the norther
part of illinois. Then westward b
way of Clinton, Cedar Rapids an
Marshallrown through the corn be
of Iowa to ON lha.
South from Omaha to Lincoln
Neb., where we picked up the U.
d. Trail which we followed to Ster
ing, Colorado. Then northwe'
over the desert to Cheyenne, Wyon
anp. taking the Yellowstone Hlgl
way northwest through Dougl Ia
Casper (the famous oil country
Wyoming) to rhermopolis and Cod
the Eastern entrance to the yellow
stone National Park, going thr'
the great Shoshone Canyon and ov'
the Snoshone Dam-one of the fine
hits of or scenery and a governme
construction project which furnish
water for irrigating thousands
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