New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-02-04
'lD1PROhOTE LONG ROUTE
uesterners Want Highway from
,,ohilantiC to Pacific.
: c. A. LINES SELECTED
sentiment Pathfinder Says That
Scenic and Historic Road Is
National Necessity.

r,nstration of the influence eXerteo
.-o,scontinental pathfnding tours Is
L,o,strated by the recent formation OF
' Ccean-to-ocean Highway Association
~ was organized during the recent IT.
80 road convention held ut PhenlN
for the purpose of selecting route
rromoting the construction or a trunk
s,rbvay from the Atlantic TO the Pacihc
- credit Is due to Governor Sloan 81
..,zors for his efforts to improve highway
sard,,ions by calling together the good
saas enthusiasts of California, New Mex
,.s ana Arizona at the request of the All
80 Good Roads Association 10 discuss
che most feasible routes and to make plans
Cor securing appropriations for their early
construction.
In = report TO the Touring Club OF Amei-
,ca r. &. Norris president of the Arizona
Good Roads Association. advises that the
convention was we'll attended by prominent
ctlz4ps from Los Angeles and san Diego,
roll: AIbuquerque. " Mex; Yuma AMI
Pboenix, Ariz.. and from several other cit
ies along the proposed route Mr. Norris
stated that the route originally surveyed
and cbarted by the representative ot the
Touring Club in the fgll of 1910 from
Eaton y. NJ. through santa. Fe, Albuquer'
Que. Carthage, san Antonio, Cocora and
Magdalena, y. NJ: Salomvilc, Globe All
Roosevelt TO Phoenix, was adopted. and
that the route west from Phoenix to los
Angeles passing through Yuma, Ariz,
Mammoth, Cal west to Mecca, through
Beaumont, Redlands Junction and Cotton
10 Los Angeles, forming a part Of tho "Old
trails highway" included in the pathhnd-
,ng trip of Thomas W. Wildly, special agent
of the Office of Public Roads, Department:
Of Agriculture. last fall was adopted for
the Western section
Willy. who made the first double trans
coHtinental tour OF the United States, in
commenting upon the adoption of the routes
originally surveyed by the Touring Club as
part of the oCean-to-Oceau highway, SAID
II am convinced that the building of a
transcontinental highway rests with the
people themselves, and in proof of this
have only TO refer 10 the territorial high
way which is now being planned by the
people of Arizona. What ] desire TO en-
phasze is the need everywhere of'co-ordi-
ration between the states as tho waste OF
energy on all sorts Of unrelated schemes
for good roads is lam sntablc. In many 10.
calities the interest ~ chiefly local, while
no state concerns itself seriously as 10
what is being done by its neighbor or looks
beyond its borders TO the various links in
the transcontinental chain.
scarcely q county commissioner or good
roads enthusiast has considered the pos
sbe importance of his section of the road
IN its relation to the burning need OF the
hour transcontinental highway from
ocean 10 ocean. Concerted effort would
change all of this so that Governors. state
engineers, county commissioners and the
authorities I'm every city could agree upon
a definite route for the transcontinental
highway, which is of the first Importance
II believe that any system for state high
ways which does not form a direct link in
the transContinental chain must be sec
highway, which is Of the first importance
ondary. The peoples highways need the
immediate cooperation of disinterested
patriotic men who are ready 10 serve their
state and nation without Interior thoughts
OF political or personal gain. The national
highway, true scenic and historic route
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is COM
Ing and is already under way. 4 great
majority Of the Western states are now
building IL and every effort must he put
forth so that the route will be joined from
state TO state, which requires a precon-
certed plan or conception of the signifi-
canoe and Importance of this work in
which the help of every good roads enthu-
siast is needed"