Arizona republican., 1912-12-13
Good Roads Meeting Yes terday Informed of At tempts of Coast City to Throw New State Down on Highway
CLUB FOUND TO
 BE USED ON HER
Will Deprive Her of Ter minus Unless Disposition Is Shown to Keep Agree ment on Ocean-tO-Ocean Route

A club with which to force Los Angeles to tote fair with Arizona is what Col. Dell NJ. Potter secured here yesterday at the meeting of good roads enthusiasts, members of the board of supervisors of Mari copa county and of the Phoenix
 Board of Trade. It was understood
 when the Ocean to- Ocean Highway
 Association was organized, Arizona and California should stand together
 to secure the route through this sta.r
 to Los Angeles The intra- state rout.
 iT Arizona was decided upon by dele
 gates from every county, and it was
 agreed the highway would eventually
 pass through Yuma, Phoenix, Globe.
 and so or out of the state near tn
 middle ot the Arizona New Mexico
 line. But, and here is what has
 aroused Colonel Potter to his WontCd
 energy. Los Angeles is showing
 disposition to throw her influence
 and money in with her stronGe=t
 neighbor It is absolutely assul e..
 that Los Angeles will be on ...
 highway, and yet that town h.-, snooped around trying to find an ether state which will be a stronger supporter of the movement than Ari- zuna has been able to be, in this
 early stage in the game Colonel Potter planned a coup which ought to Lind Los Angeles and her tremendous money resources to keep the bargain made with the all-Arizona conVen-
 ton which proposed to run the high way through Phoenix He will take to Los Angeles the pledge of Ari- zonians to drop absolutely the asso- citation as it now exists, throw in the good roads fortunes of this state with the southern transcontinentaI highway people and with the added strength of the two organizations l secure the first appropriation of con- gress under the new federal aid plan l for the route that has heretofore been called Borderland, at least that
 section of that route which trav- erses the southern part of Arizona. Colonel Potter's speech before the delegates of the various civic bodies at the Board of Trade yesterday aft ernoon showed that there is the bit terest rivalry among the different | good roads men, who have organized I l Each section of the country has it's | paws out for a section of the road,
 and each section gets sore if it does not get said section of the road. 1 Potter argues that Arizona has the | only route worth working over. be- l cause in this state are the only l passes over the Rockies that are | open all winter and free from ob-
 structions the year around. Granted 1 that Arizona has the only feasible
 route. it remains only to see which | of the three possible roads shall be l pursued with the first great inn provement work. And that was de- 1 cided when the state as a whole | gave the endorsement to the route
 now known as the Arizona division of the ocean to- ocean highway
 It is fight now, on who shall get the first appropriation from congress. ! Los Angeles is ready to jump any way that may seem best to her own
 interests. If Utah shows she has more men in congress pledged to
 support giving the money to a Utah
 route, Los Angeles is willing to cut
 AriZonas throat and throw in her
 fortunes with the other state.