Arizona republican., 1911-08-22
TWO MORE ENTRIES
 FOR THE BIG RACE
THE STUDABAKERS BECOME IN-
 PERSISTED.
Other Matter Bearing on the Subject
 of Automobile Roads.

l President Bullard of the Maricopa
 Automobile club yesterday received a
 telegram from the Studabaker compa- ny announcing that it would enter l two cars in the Los Angeles to Phoe- | nix road race, an F.. NJ F. 30 and a l Flanders 20. Mir. Bullard was re- | qucsted to communicate with the Ari- l Zona Motor company which handles | those machines here. The company
 also received a telegram informing it of the arrangement.
 MT Bullard also received a letter from the Westgard people in reply | to d request by him to change the l Wcstgard transcontinental itinerary | so as to go over the new course of l the Los Angeles to Phoenix race. The | letter announces compliance with the | request so that Phoenix is placed on | that tour and the new course for the
 race will be given still greater promi- hence.
 | Speaking of automobile courses the Los Angeles Times of last Sun
 day devotes eight pages of one sec
 ton to the subject of roads, dwelling | especially upon the national highway . | almost two pages.
 1 Really two highways are described, | both reaching from Chicago from New ! York by slightly varying routes. From | Chicago west the two are more dis
 tinct, one going to san Francisco by ! the way of Omaha. Denver, Salt Lake, | Reno and Sacramento. The other
 takes a southwesterly course, diagon- ally through Kansas, Albuquerque,
 Canyon Diablo and Phoenix and thence | to Los Angeles over the road race
 course.
 This good road section of the Times | contains articles by two prominent Arizonans on the subject. one by Gov | crnor Sloan and the other by MT Bullard. The governor says: There are many good reasons why | the main transcontinental highway, | from the coast to coast should come | through Arizona and no good reason why it Shuld not. In the first place | it is the only practicable all the year l route There are no mountain ranges ! or high plateaus to cross. where deep | snoWs. which last more than few days at a time may be encountered. Storms of any kind which make travel difficult or unpleasant are infrequent either in New Mexico or Arizona The route will present attractions
 to the tourist which cannot be cX- celled elsewhere. either in kind or number. the Grand Canyon of Arizona. the Puebla villages and petrificd for
 ests of Northern Arizona, tn" sur passingly beautiful mountains and ATt- zuna. the great copper camus, the colossal dams and reservoirs and the wonderfully fertile valley of the Salt River are some cf these.
 This route can be quickly opened to travel New Mexico is now con structing a road across it, which would make part of the highway.
 Arizona is building roads as rapidly
 as her means will permit. We have already constructed more than 100 miles of splendid highway and in an other year it will be possible for a
 tourist to come into this territory
 from the East and visit every part
 of il. including the Grand Canyon,
 with ease and comfort.
 We only need to be connected with
 the Southern California coast by a
 good road from some point on the
 Colorado river.
 Two such connecting roads would
 be better. one running from Yuma
 through the Imperial valley to San
 Diego, and the other from Ehrenburg
 or Parker. through to Los Angeles.
 NJ. Bullard's article follows:
 There is no question about the best
 highway from the Atlantic to the
 Pacific Coast or as to which will
 be adopted. It is through Arizona.
 There are two organizations which
 have made a study of and taken pains
 to map a route for d national highway
 The touring Club of America, with
 it's pathfinder, A l.. Westgard, and
 the American Automobile Association,
 through its pathfinder. Furgeson, both
 route through Arizona. All bills m
 congress providing for national hlgh-
 ways prescribe d route through ArlZo-
 ma.
 The Westgard route follows the
 old Santa Fe trail. which was used
 by the early California pioneers who
 knew the lines of least resistence-
 This route runs through New York.
 the northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the middle of. Iowa, south eastern corner of Nebraska, through
 Kansas. the southwestern part Of Colorado, through New Mexico and Arizona into Los Angeles.
 The route of the American Automo- bile Association is practically the same except that it dctours through the southern states before striking New Mexico The advantages ol these routes are obvious. They are open for twelve months of the year The northern route for only six months of the year.
 The route of the national high way through Arizona means that beau tifuI coast road in California will be | followed up without back tracking | it at any point.
 Eventually there will be at least | two national highways, but the first | will be through Arizona. This winter | q southwestern transcontinental high | way convention will be held in Ari- | zona. Delegates are to be appointed | bv Governors of New Mexico, AriZo-