Colorado Springs cars drop down into the wash again and frequently encountered

Wing was a Metz car dealer in Los Angeles and went to great lengths to impress upon the reader the ability of the Metz to navigate the Canyon. After passing these narrow points, we were, of course, obliged to drop down into the wash again and frequently encountered boulders that had become blocked thick in the bed of the wash and piled up, presenting an obstacle formidable enough to discourage the stoutest heart and you would think, to put out of commission the toughest car. But the way our Metz climbed over that stuff was almost unbelievable .

Six years after President Roosevelt protected 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon as a national monument and five years before President Wilson protected the land as part of the National Park System, Mr. L. Wing and a Los Angeles reporter traveled nearly 700 miles from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon to be the first to drive through the Grand Canyon to the Colorado River.

There were no roads from the rim of the Canyon to the River below. Indeed, in 1914, roads from Los Angeles to the Canyon were pathways. O. K. Parker, the reporter on the trip, described the journey. The entire route from Los Angeles to Peach Springs, where the descent into the Grand Canyon actually commences, is through the sand deserts south of Death Valley, and across the Colorado River, at Needles.

Parker went on to describe the venture, it involves long stretches of torrid desert wastes where water, food and camping equipment are essential to the safety of the traveler. In addition to the bothersome sands of the Colorado Basin, three mountain ranges have to be crossed.

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