Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-04-22

point freight rates. Continuing, he
advised the people not to overlook
any opportunity either, in securing an
extension of the +. = & S. w to
Phoenix, and his influence and help
is with them in any undertaking to
that end.
The next speaker was Dell NJ. Pot
ter, a supervisor of Greenlee county
and a pioneer good roads man in
eastern Arizona Mr. Potter spoke on
the merits of transcontinental high
way. Mr.. Potter was a whirlwind of
enthusiasm He spoke rapidly ana
well and every word counted. The
central idea of his talk was that
now is the time to act. Arizona had
already been a little too slow. Los
Angeles has been bidding for Co
operation and the chamber of com
merce of that city months ago Of
fered to take up at the state line
and finish any road Arizona would
build to it. Now the interest of
Los Angeles has been cooled Il lit
tie by the plans for the Walker
transcontinentaI road through Col
orado and Utah as a connecting line.
However, Mr.. Potter says the road
can still be built; must be built if
Arizona would serve her best inter
ests He says the Arizona line both
as a practical and a scenic route,
through low attitudes that can be
travelled the year around, has the
Colorado route skinned to the bone"
Mr. Potter cited many instances
and gave may figures showing how
road building investments would re-
turn the. best possible interest. He
said that Arizona could well afford to
bond itself for $5.00O,o0O to get such
transcontinental road as is needed.
He told of road building in Jamaica,
1000 miles from the commercial CEN
tiers, and how immense sums h =
been spent, thereby attracting an
rm ayof automobiles annually. He
gave figures showing the money
spent by the touring fraternity, that
alone would make the project an in
viting one to say nothing of the
fact that a very large percentage of
the tourists would he led to invest
ment in Arizona, while those who
have investments here could develop
their properties more successfully.
General Sampson followed Mr.. Pot
ter, making only short talk which
started with a story at the expense
of Bishop Atwood. He told OF his
familiarity with the good roads Of
twenty-four nations, and never had
he seen a better one or one more
notable for its scenic beauty than
the Roosevelt road in Arizona. with
the single exception of the road from
=, INC of
Roosevelt road he quoted Colonel
Roosevelt's remark on his recent
visit. that il should become equally
as famous for its scenic splendors as
the Grand Canyon or the Yosemite.
Judge c. f. Ainsworth was in
PRODUCED as the man who drives his
machine where'er he can and some
times where'er he cannot. That was
supposed to be a slam on the judge
having once been arrested for speed
ing and fighting the case through
the courts. The judge said he sup
posed he was billed for a humorous
speech. but concerning the incident
he said never until then had he
driven an automobile, and since then
he proposed TO be able to drive him
self and not be dragged all over the
territory as a horrible example. He
said he supposed he was arrested as
an example, because the county is
full of such dare devil drivers as W.
X James and DIR. Ancil Martin. who
have been known to make as high as
five miles an hour.
Becoming serious the speaker said
this valley now has more than d
biles and the rest of Arizona another
million His theory now is to build
good roads to run them on and get
the money back. Thus far the money
all goes to the manufacturers, but
they will return il just as soon as
Arizona has something to offer. The
judge spoke Of the present road laws
as not perfect, but the best that
could be secured at the time, and he
thought the results, which he pro-
ceeded to recite. had been ample
warrant for the law.
Bishop w. Atwood was intro
duced as a pilot on the one road that
everybody has to travel some day.
The bishop in response delivered one
of his usual witty after dinner
speeches that kept everybody in a
roar of laughter. He spoke of a ride
back from the Roosevelt dam with G.
T. Billiard at the rate of sixty miles
an hour. the day after the Roosv-
welt dedication, the object being for
the bishop to keep a preaching en-
gagement in Mesa that night. He
said he later realized that what Mr.
Billiard wanted was to get in for
morning worship. The bishop said
that speed would have broken the
Sabbath had it been for any other
purpose than attending divine wor
ship. With a serious ending the
bishop said he hoped that i'm all the
road building in Arizona care would
he taken to construct a road of civic
righteousness that those who come
after might travel with honor To their
predecessors and profit to them
selves
The last speaker was E S. Clark
of Prescott. He began with a joke
on the bishop also. and then paid his
respects to the hospitality of Phoe-
nix He said that the Prescott peo-
pie claimed to be the most hospita-
BILE people on earth, but they are
willing now to place Phoenix on a
seat beside them.
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