The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-07
BY CATHERINE WOOLLEY
Written Especially for NEA Service
and The Times

Service
and The Times
Salt Lake City is the hub of four
great highways leading to points on
the Pacific coast. Two have become
mighty arteries Of highly organ
lied motor stage traffic, operating
through runs day and night. The
other two have connecting stage
lines clear through.
One of these four motor stage
ways is along the new Victory
Highway-one Of the most scenic
routes, in its far-western stretches
in the United States.
West of Salt Lake, the Victory
runs for hundreds of miles through
the alkali flats of the Great Salt
Lake desert-blinding white and
void of vegetation, and intensely
hot. Then it crosses Nevada, fol-
lowing the route Of the Southern
Pacific railroad through Wendover,
in Utah, and on to Reno, in Ne
vada.
Roll Into Sierras
West of Reno the country really
begins to roll up into the Sierra
Nevada heights. This conquest if
the high Sierras by motor stage
traffic is one of the melodramatic
achievements of transportation, and
quite as important to the individual
car owner.
Truckee, still savoring of the
early west, is the first town in Cali
fornia. From this point westward
the stage climbs over a road that
is majestic in it's outlookS. There
appear range after range Of snow
covered mountains, exquisite val
leys in their long shadows. Tum-
bling, flashing streams, blue lakes
The Sierra region between Sacra-
mento and Nevada is populated
with wild game-cougar, bear, deer,
bobcat-and the streams with fish,
Here, too, is the gold region that
made California famous in '49.
Sleeping Chair" Coaches
For at least seven months of the
year, big sleeping chair" coaches
make the Salt Lake-San Francisco
run daily-daylight and darkness
in about thirty-two hours-some
800 miles.
Another route over the high
Sierras is the Lincoln Highway, but
there is still a bad piece of road be-
tween Salt Lake City and Ely, New.
This stretch may be abandoned
and the Lincoln Highway re?routed
over the Victory Highway for a.
hundred miles or more out of Salt
Lake, and thence over a short
stretch southwark to Ely.
Hits Old Gold Trail
From Ely westward, through Eu-
reka and Reno, the Lincoln High
way is graveled and in fine condi-
ton, and local stages operate on it.
Local stages run also between Ely
and Salt Lake, mostly over a very
rough detour to the Victory High
way, and then over that beautiful
road to their destination.
West of Reno, the Lincoln High
way crosses the high Sierras and
descends through a course famous
as the Old Gold Trail-the route Of
the Pony Express. In summer,
stages between Reno and San Fran
cisco follow this road through the
Lake Tahoe region and Placerville.
Opens Way to Park
For the third long stage route
westward from Salt Lake, take the
Arrowhead Trail, which cuts dag
onally through Utah and Nevada
into California.
The Arrowhead Trail through
Utah opens, to stages and motor
lists alike, Zion National Park, the
north rim of the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado and all that region.
The fourth motor route out of
Salt Lake runs to Portland, Ore,
$50 miles almost wholly over the
Old Oregon Trail.
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