Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
BY AUTO FROM
 KANSAS CITY
c. L. Taylor and Party Ar rived Here Last Evening in a Rec Bound for Gold en State; Having a Fine Time

C. L. Taylor and his son, Dorrell Taylor, accompanied by Kenneth Uhls, all from Kansas City, wheeled into Phoenix yesterday afternoon in a Rec touring car, en route to Los Angeles. They are guests for the night at the Hotel Adams and will continue their journey west this morning, going via Yuma, BraWley and up the west coast of the Salton sea. They left Kansas City on June 9th having thus been only sixteen days on the road Their trip has been a pleasant one all the time and they have met with no ac- cident, a little tire trouble being the only interference with clear sailing They rather regret that they cannot stay over here two or three days and visit with friends but have their schedule mapped out and are in a hurry to get through. MT Taylor is distantly related to s. w Higley, owner of The Republican and has a number of old acquaintances in the valley, people he has known in Kan sas and in Kansas City.
 Mir Taylor says they followed the l old Santa F'e trail as far as Santa F'e and from there selected the Ocean | to Ocean or Trail to Sunset route. and have found it very practical all | the way through. The worst road encountered was in Colorado. They | make no plans for desert camping | having thus far been able to make a | town or city every night for a stop ping place, so it is only day jaunting all the way. They stopped three days ir, Albuquerque, then came on to Springerville and then to Fort Apache where they stayed one night with the soldiers The next day they rolled to Globe and then via Roosevelt to Phoenix. The sight of the big dam and the road between it and Phoenix were continuous scenes of wonder and delight. Coming into the valley at the source of it's water supply. vel fitted them for appreciation of the prosperous farm scenes they behelC | later when they entered the irrigated section.
 Though the weather is getting { little too warm to attract the greater number of tourists through the south west until the road is known to bt thoroughly completed and marked there is still considerable travel ovel it, MT Taylor said he met severa eastbound cars and passed four west
 bound cars, which will be here pre-
 sumably in a few days. Among tht
 eastbOund cars was the Pierce Arrow
 Los Angeles Times machine carrying Del M. Potter of Clifton, and party
 MT. Potter being the official repre- sentative of the ocean to Ocean high way association. He could hardly sa.
 he met this party either for he onl.
 saw the machine roll into Gardel
 City. Kansas, by one road as he lief the sity by another.
 But he did meet Mir. Potter
 month or so ago when he addresse good roads meeting in Kansas City Imost effectively. He left the i'm
 pression that he was a live wire an
 succeeded in stirring up great dea of enthusiasm, not only there but a | along the line. Mir. Taylor says tn | Kansas City people are thorough ] alive to the good roads mOvemen
 and are helping to push it along. Tn
 road from Kansas City to St. Louis
 now finished except the ballastin
 with rock which is going on rapidl
 and will be finished in a year or sC
 MT. Taylor has never been in thi section before though he has crosse
 the state by rail in his visits to Cal ifornia. He is getting a new line O
 Arizona and it's resources throug
 this tour. MT. Uhls who accompanie him expects to remain in Californi
 and enter Stanford university in tn
 fall
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