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Show or eight stoves. A party of picnickers from the city are eating as we drive in —also many tourists like ourselves. Several trains pulled by in the night also many cars coming off the desert by night. Late comers talking and the usual noise of the early goers cut our naps short at both ends. : Are on our way at 6:30. Winding up, up. Took picture from the summit and now our 12 miles of pavement is gone and we have dirt roads once more the first we have rode on since we met the pavement here coming in. Now the cacti again as we near Hesperia. Got some pictures of it. This is where the desert begins. And now for two days of this —anyhow it is an experience and the engine is working beautifully. 25 miles and we come into Victorville —with its huge cement factory of Victor brand Portland cement. Mining used to be the prevailing industry here —but now agriculture by irrigation. There is greenness along the stream but otherwise the country is desolate indeed. Five miles farther and another cement factory at Oro Grande —Bear Grand. 33 miles to Barstow and we still have the Mohave River and the Santa Fe Rail Road for company. 8:30 and we notice the place where we ate our last lunch coming in. Meet tourists whom we suspect of pitying us as we did those we met as we came. ‘Tis a little cloudy for which _ we are very glad. Next point of interest was the goat farm. Next we bo't some cantalopes which we ate in Barstow. Also got an ice cold drink at garage. Scarcely two miles out of Barstow we run a long bolt into back tire —a great big one. Some hot too, fixing it. This is the old Oxcart trail of the 40's and 50's and later of the gold seekers. Stopped to eat but are not bad except in places. Pass a large Indian school and see a lot of them about their shacks. Meet loads of cedar posts coming in from the mts. First stop is Peach Springs. This is the Hualapai Indian reservation. Surely seems good to see more vegetation and the cedars on the mts. are a pretty sight. No wonder Needles is hot as its altitude is only 491 —a drop of over 2,000 ft. from Goffs in 30 mi. 8:30 A.M. finds us on a nicely graded road.on top of the mts. thro’ cattle & sheep pastures. Some places roads are real muddy. Later —11:30 A.M. Well I guess they are muddy. We are within 3 miles of Seligman now. Ralph is helping the man with the Michell car that has been with us since Amboy fix his springs —a Maxwell is here too with the man who promised his wife to be home for Sunday dinner!! And soon Bill —the butt of all jokes. A few miles back we helped them out of a mudhole. They haven't had breakfast yet! Took two pictures here. In Seligman we got eats and had lunch. An Indian woman posed on the porch. On from Seligman —roads muddy and rocky —some bad bogs. Met a Franklin hub deep. Cadillac had stopped to help and we stopped too but the more they tried the deeper they got in. Then the lady had a brilliant idea — she would get cedar boughs and strew the road ahead, which she immediately set doing —only they were mere buttonhole bouquets. Truly a comical sight to see! Couldn’t do them any good and they were headed west so we crept on. Several more bogs, some deep streams and one terrific hill, steep, rocky and a twist in it. Michell, Maxwell, Reo and Cadillac made it in a string —stopped at top to shake hands with ourselves and put water in. Man at Ash Fork said this was the best rain they had had in years —and it came just in time to save the sheep & lambs from perishing by the thousands. Cole Campbell, the big sheep man of this country, had been having water shipped in by the rail road —he controls some 1,200,000 sheep and 400,000 lambs. This man said in May they had had a light rain —first in 14 mo. When we came into Williams where we camp for the night —our road, after the aforesaid hill, wound thro’ the pines and was very beautiful. There were a lot more cars camped too. Cold at night but we rested fairly well and on our way at 7:30 on road to Grand Canyon —63 mi. Hoping to see something worthwhile. Arrived at the Canyon about noon. Just after we entered the park we had a light shower —wetting things up. Altho’ the road was far from good we are glad we came for the canyon is grand. It was a wonderful sight thro’ the large Telescope at Lookout. The men on the burros, down in the canyon, viewed from the rim, looked no larger than rats. Before arranging camp we took the Rim drive and viewed the canyon from several points —and from one we saw the great Colorado River. Donna & Phil are glad of a chance to play & dig. A little boy, Jack, played with them until bed time. Wed. Aug 10. On our way back to Williams at 6:45. This detour took 1 1/2 days and 126 miles but was well worth it all. Roads were bad for Be usted “B omas. a little way out of St. Th = ther... "Jasper Nutter and his bro 13. mi. into Williams as they had another rain. Ate dinner there then on to Flagstaff our watermelon and get cold water, just around a cliff —Lankin Auto Camp— a man has homestead there. Said it was only a few feet to water —was putting in wind mills to irrigate so he could put out a fig orchard. Lots of small shacks all around. Took picture of us under the big mesquite tree where the mistletoe hung thick. Started on and have paved (or oiled) tracks but badly worn. Caretaker at Camp Cajon said that within a month work is to begin to pave all this clear to Needles. Saw our last campground at Ludlow —got eats & gas and came on as quickly as possible. Roads are rocky & chucky and travel slow. Meet lots of cars. One failed to give us any road and jammed the fender. At Amboy we got a quart (90 cents) ice cream which we enjoyed. Tough looking specimens of humanity. We decide to go on 40 mi. to Fenner as it is only 5:30 and too hot to stop —have some pavement. Came to some NJ. people stranded with engine trouble —wanted water— gave them most of what we had. It was 8 oclock and dark when we reached Fenner. Didn’t put up tent. Wind came up and peppered us with gravel and the tin cans rolled by —could hardly hold our sheets down —then at midnight it rained hard enough to drive us into car then when it stopped we crawled out again and slept (some). Three other cars had come in in the night. Got out as soon as possible and shook the gravel of Fenner not from our shoes alone. On the road at 6 A.M. and into Goffs —10 mi. at 6:30 where we got gas and on again. Old Sol is pouring down his heat —early on the job. Roads are better this morn —see a little rain water on the broken pavement and later in the streets of Needles. 14 mi. out of Goffs —where the Arrowhead meets the Sante Fe we bid goodby to scenery we saw coming and our new road leads to Needles —famed for being the next to the hottest place. We see some of the Mohave Indians in native dress. This town is named from the needle like rocks about it. We follow and wind about along the Colorado River which we cross over the long bridge at Topock —where we get more gas. Two roads now to Kingman —we where we stopped for awhile. He runs a garage here. Left (prehistoric). In order to see Driving in thro’ the pines we Man from Holt Co., C. E. La Rae Flagstaff about 4 P.M. and on to them we had to. make a short came to the Rangers cabin where came over to talk to us. see the Cliff Dwellings detour over bad roads. we register and proceed on foot down into Walnut canyon about a fourth mile and there we saw these cliff dwellings which they figure have not been inhabited for 1200 years. We camped under the whispering pines after a good supper. ' From the 192] booklet distributed to tourists at the Grand Canyon. G ERIOR went OF TEE S SECRET DEPAR Aunnerd eee : SERVICE P AR ATION cAL eT MATHER pinecTOR erent 2 ANE Ti ON NA RULES AND REGULATIONS GENERAL REGU LATIONS, (Mn eliect Feb, 4, 1921.) 5 REGULATIONS AND ALCANYO' PARK RULES Tules Grand ¢ Canyon Nation, und | E 1 Lelegulations ane fop . t Fee to 191G authority ae are hereby ernment of the: Usust 25, Diet (4 Stat,“OnTerred by Y ¢}the eslnblighea 739), (39 536 act of Cd and made . Public 4nd the act of Poa °0),»Sn as amended Junee2Congress 4pproved : ; * 5, 1919 (40 Stut., 1 Ca Mping.—No cae ities, Bly 1 P shall be made nkets,S, Clothin. cloth; , likel 'Y to fr, : Many aeeSSLY feams shall not ae os . une therefore aeaband oo 2 © ae Tin (41 Stat., Q along5 road S CXCept Cc or anyY She parties camp on the s, eee ne Ss bore © Placeda in garbage Ae thoroughly es ee durice feel that way. It was too hot to even try to write so I'm writing this next morn when we are nice and cool. Before we came to Needles we almost collided with a Henry Ford. As we came to a curve I said “Sound Claxon” —the next second the Ford appeared full speed down grade. Ralph shut gas, slammed brakes, swung in and sounded horn —all in one breath —and we all sped on..As we neared Oatman a tourist by the roadside said there was quite a mountain road to climb into Oatman. We found he was correct to put it mildly. Roadbed is good but steep and narrow grades & curves. Here is the great gold mining district —mines everywhere. $250,000,000 mined here last year. Tire blew out in Oatman. We stopped for two hours here. Got a good pie and ice cream cones at 10 cents for lunch. Many Mexicans and Indians about. Saw what looked to be a quarter of beef hung up outside to cure. Found road getting out of Oatman as treacherous as coming in. Many deserted shacks on all hands. Got into Kingman about 5 P.M. See a storm coming up the valley and tis cooler. I slept a few minutes when road was smoother and air is a distributing place of minerals mined here —$300,000,000 ' cans ere it Teak wi only, for fuel. Le NC LEN Ce,eums : aut omobiles shall Ghee S, saddle; horses, Sipe le direction in which : e outer Edee of ie oF trains a i >. | may Mit Jef, is. 2 roadwayY regardloss Foo Y be voing aac CA onpthe aTeams he “inside 2) tuking oecare thatse ess of sufficient icles and animals a1 e eCOSSaPy : ae g NO Case x} 9 enable Hs spood ULomobile e; Sreate Diesy Saas ae Messy oe Pass animals on the ) Pass : i ae , toad worth of gold, silver & bronze handled last year. Got into Hackberry about 6:30, made our camp and a good supper & cleaned up for a good night's rest. Rained in night and Ralph dug a ditch around the tent with the butcher knife! Cool and had a fine rest. Up early. Ralph patched a tube as we had another flat tire before we got into camp last eve. - Aug. 8 Mon. morn on the road at 6 A.M. Riding with our coats on. Believe we have left the heat behind now as it is so much greener. Our way leads us thro’ what were beds of mt. streams last night. See some cattle but they are mere skeletons. Roads show the rain ae a cooler for I was nearly dead. Donna had a nap too. Thot we'd camp at Kingman but found the road would be good to next stop. We sped on after getting gas & H,O. Kingman doe: oe and all ence” eqn oot “thing, S decide on the one thro’ Oatman. Many chuck holes as they are building a new road alongside. Surely is H.O.T.! Children look so tired and I at r artic), R the Season; NEXT TIME: Headed Home. |