Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1915 — COMPLETES 7,000 MILE TRIP TO EXPOSITION [ARTICLE]

COMPLETES 7,000 MILE TRIP TO EXPOSITION

George >M. Myer and Party Return From Auto Trip to California Without Mishap. George M. Myer, the telephone man, returned home Tuesday evening from California, where he had made the trip from Rensselper by automobile. Mr. Myer, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Wills, Mrs. Best, and his sister, Miss Myer, of Chicago, left Rensselaer July 6th in Mr. Myers’ tßuick Six for a trip to the world’s fair at San Francisco. They arrived at Ogden, Utah, on the edge of the desert, about July 25th. There they picked up a man and took him with them for the trip across the desert to Reno. The distance across the desert is about 600 miles and it is a very disagreeable trip, three miles an hour being the average speed through the sand. A week was consumed in crossing the desert, or an average of 35 miles a day. The soil is principally alkali and sand and at places the car sank into she soil to the hubs. About twenty cars a day pass over the desert. Not over 50 families, mostly ranchmen, live in the desert, and one night the party was forced to sleep in the machine and in the open. At Cody, Wyoming, they stopped off for a trip through Yellowstone National Park. The park had not yet been opened for automobiles upon their arrival there and they waited a week for the opening, their’s being the fourth oar to enter the park, but they were well repaid for their wait, as the trip through the park was an enjoyabel one. From the park they went to Salt Lake, where they spent three days in sight-seeing. The Union Pacific route was taken to Reno, and a visit was made to Taho Lake at the top of the mountain on the line between Nevada and California. Saacremento was visited and from there the trip was taken to San Frhncisco, where they arrived August 15th. One week was spent in San Francisco, and then the journey home was started. South from San Francisco they went, to Los Angeles, 250 miles squth. One-half of this road is boulevard, and when completed will be one of the finest roads in the country. Three days were spent in that city, then the Santa Fe trail was taken to Passadena, then the desert trip was undertaken. This southern desert trip was much worse than the northern route and the heat was something terrible, at Needles, 2,000 feet below the sea level, the temperature being 140 the day they were there. They spent a day each in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. At Colorado .Springs they made the trip to Pikes Peak in their car, their’s being the second car to make the road trip, only 13 miles out of the 17 of the road to the peak being completed. They also visited Denver, the Grand Canon in Arizona and various other places. From Denver went to Davenport, where they experienced the only bad weather of the trip, the rains making the roads muddy. They arrived in Chicago Sunday evening and Mr. Myers left the rest of the party there and came on home Tuesday evening. The trip was without mishap and was a delightful one, taking it all in all. The car wais in good condition when reaching Rensselaer and not over a dollar was spent in repairs on the 7,000 mile trip and the original tires weTe still in use, and on one of them the original Indiana air was still in use.