The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
SOME NEWS AND GOSSIP
 FOR AUTOMOBILE OWNERS
By oYLDE ". ENNIS

The automobile district of Bilming- ham. considered to be the Southside, be .ween Avenues E and E, and between Twentieth and Twenty-flrst streets will have added to it several additional agencies and perhaps buildings during the year.
 The automobile owners, or at least T large majority of them, reside on the south side of the city, and automobile activities have been laore or less con 1 fined 10 that section of the city. The automobile district has been built up in the past two years and it's growth has been remarkable However, the next l two years will see even greater aotiyi- ties in that locality
 It is stated that at this time the stude- baker corporation, makers of several well known cars. contemplate the ereo- ton of a building in the automobile district. Judge Dan Greene represents the company here and It has ben rumoi ed for some time that his company intended to erect the most eommodious and attrac- tive automobile show room in the state. 1t is said to be the intention of the com pany to keep on display several types of cars and to so arrange them as to at l tract the most attention from prospective buyers,
 The officials of the company have not made any announcements officially. oth- CT companies are also looking around on the southside for suitable locations for garages and show rooms.
 ;,.a eXerted by trans-continental pathfndiug tours is demonstrated by the recent for- nation of the Ocean to Ocean Highway association, which was organized during the recent tri-state road convention held at Phoenix. Arlz., for the purpose of ss- lecting route and promoting the con- struction of a trunk highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 Much credit Is due Governor Sloan of Arizona for his efforts to improve high way conditions by calling together the good roads enthusiasts of California, New Mexico and Arizona at the request of the Arizona Good Roads association to discuss the most feasible routes and to make plans for securing appropriations for their early construction.
 In a report to the Touring club of America, President T. G. Norris of the | Arizona Good Roads association advises that the convention WAS well attended by prominent citizens from Los Angeles aud san Diego, Cal, Albuquerque, N. M, Yuma, Ariz., and from several other cities along the proposed route l President Norris states that the route originally surveyed and chartered by the representative of the Touring club of America in the fall of 1910 from Rator, N. M. through Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Carthage San Antonio, Cocora and Mag dalena, N NJ, Salomville. Globe Roose- welt to Phoenix was adopted and that
 the route west from Phoenix to Los Angeles passing through Yuma, Ariz., II Mammoth Cal, west to Mecca, through
 Beaumont RedIands Junction and Colton
 to Los Angeles, forming a part of the lsOld Trails highway" included in the pathfinding trip of Thomas w. Wilby spe-
 ciaI agent of the office of public roads,
 department Of agriculture, and officials
 representative of the Touring club ot
 America last fall, was adopted for the
 western section
 M. Clement, who is a practical autono- bile builder, is on his way 10 this country
 from Parts Ia see if be can find out, for the large French motor car interests which are sending him, why merican cars are making such inroads on foreign cars not only in tne United States, but on the continent
 This is the first time an emissary from abroad has ever visited America for such