Arizona republican., 1911-12-22
USUAL ORDER IS REVERSED
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| along the Southern Pacific tu Mecca. skirts the Salton sea on the west to Yuma via Phoenix, Roosevelt. Globe. Solomonvillc. Clifton and Springer vile. through New Mexico's three 1 largest cities and into Colorado at Raton. as is more fully set forth in the resolutions adopted and printed later in this story. This is how it ! came about.
 | When the convention adjourned
 Wednesday night it had directed that
 each state caucus on the route it had
 to recommend This was chiefly be. cause of the California controversy | but there were ruInors also of. dis 1 scnsion in the Arizona ranks and
 the possibility of it in New Mexico | Northern Arizona did not wish to in ! terfcrc with the Phoenix Yuma plan
 but did hope to switch the line along | the santa Fc and down through | Prescott tO Phoenix. However. after
 earnest caucusing their difficulties were settled and northern Arizona fell | like heroes before the logic of the ! Roosevelt road and the strong east | crn delegation. Though it hurt d lit | tie the boys all came out of the eau
 GUS smiling. New Mexico delegates | iT like manner had some preferences
 among themselves but settled them amcably and also reported with bcaming cOuntenance. But with the ! CalifUrnians it was a little different. ! Both sides knew what they wanted
 and came prepared to try and get 1 it The Los Angeles delegation had
 won the support of RedIands. River ! side and the Los Angeles vicinity while san Diego had formed an al- nance of mutual interest with Fl Cen ! tro. Both sides had counted noses ! end when San Diego realized that | Los Angeles had seventeen out of the states delegation of twenty-eight the Bay delegates decided not to go into ! the caucus. The others caucuSed and | formulated the report later presented | to the convention.
 1 The Fl Ccntro delegates had to leave for home Wednesday night
 leaving San Diego but eight strong | When the convention met yesterday morning the recommcndati tions of the ' three delegations were read A san 1 Diego delegate secured the floor and | discourscd upon the attitude of his
 contingent. It is understood it was his purpose to present q minority re- port recommending the lower route. but some Of the delegates objected ! "n the ground that as san Diego did not participate in the causus it could make no minority report. The | matter was disposed of by the raising
 of point Of order that was sus- | tained by President Mitchell in tn" chair. and the fight was over The
 san Dicg" delegates remained part
 of the convention but there was lit | tie more to he done except the for
 malitics ot winding up the business of
 the session which was concluded be- ! fore 1 o'clock. The recommendations of the three state delegations were
 adopted as the resolutions of the con vcntion and are as follows:
 California's Recommendation. Whereas, the California delegation or the Ocean to Ocean association. in caucus assembled. believing that the
 route presenting the fcwcst gcograph- | iCIl and physical obstacles. should be | endorsed for the national highway. having under consideration the ad- vantagcs of having such a highway
 pass through as much settled ter ritory as possible. and within strik- ! ing distance at all times of a trans continental railroad. therefore. be it Resolved. That the California dele gation recommend as a course for the
 national highway. d route running sIn the Southern Pacific railway to point about four and one-half miles west of Mammoth station, thence southwcstcrly to Brawlcy. thence
 northwestcrly along the south and
 west side of SaltOn Sea tO Mecca, thence again along the line of the
 $ r. railroad to Beaumont, Rcdlands Junction. Cotton. thence by the short est road to Los Angeles.
 Across Arizona.
 Resolved. That the transcontincntal highway. in crossing the state of Ari- zona. shall begin at Yuma on the Colorado river and run thence along the course of the territorial highway as heretofore surveyed to the city of Phoenix. thence by way of Tempe Iilu htSd lO iit IlopScN til hdlil, thence to the city of Globe over the territorial highway already construct ed. thence to San Carlos on the Gila river. thence up the Gila valley to Clifton, thence northerly to Springer
 vile, thence casterly to the Arizona and New Mexico line to form a junction with the highway as con structed through the state of New Mexico.
 Through New Mexico.
 The New Mexico delegation have agreed upon the ocean to Ocean high way route through New Mexico as follows:
 Starting at tthe Arizona line 16 miles cast of Springerville and pro- ceeding eastward to Magdalena. SO- zorro. San Antonio, Carthage to AL buquerque. Thence to Santa Fe. Las Vegas. Raton and leaving the state