Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-23
GOOD ROADS ID
 BE DISCUSSED
Harry Drum, Pathfinder, to Be Entertained Here; BOrderland Route
 Discussed
SOUTH ROUTE IS BEST

! - " - III ANNS - V A< AAO c<AJ Work for the Borderland route Is now on in earnest so far as this sec tion of the proposed highway is con cerned. For several days past progress.
 has been made at the easterly end, in mapping out and placing Of sign posts and selection Of roads and at length that work has reached this stage of the proposed ocean to ocean highway.
 that is open all the year round Rep- lresentatives from this city and Doug las left on Sunday for Fl Paso and it Was their expectation that Harry T Drum. representing the Transconti- mental Tours club would reach Fl Paso last night and that the meeting for organizing the association would then be held. According to present plans
 Mir. Drum will be the guest of the i Warren district on Friday and will be escorted on to Tucson on Saturday. There were some unexpected devel- opments in the Borderland route sit- uation that arose on Sunday that has tened the departure Of T. X. Hughes Of this city who will represent the
 Secretary of the Commercial club RA as FNAiA tA A'Ohci ieAH pll DuiltaA lO consult Secretary GrindelJ of the Douglas chamber of commerce and found that the latter was in receipt of information that seemed to place the Fl Paso meeting d day ahead of the date that was expected T. A. Hughes and President McNay of the conner cial club also went 10 Douglas and there were told of the changes in 1.1au Gp tbas fir TTuuheg, hurried b.g.-- to Bisbee aaC prepared to leave that night. Meantime E. P. Grindell oil
 Douglas. had left for Deming in his motor car whence he proceeded to Fl PasC yesterday. Thus this section Of the proposed route is well repre- scented at the meeting
 As al present arranged the itinerary of MT. Drum calls for his arrival at
 Deming today with meeting there to-
 night On Wednesday the party win proceed to LOrdsbure where anotheri meeting will be held and on Thursday will arrive in Douglas lt is desired and expected that number of cars from this city will go to Douglas to meet the pathfinder there and some will stay over for the Douglas meet ing.
 On Friday Douglas will escort Mr.
 Drum to Bisbee. Here 8 dollar dinner. open to all interested in good roads.
 whether or not they be members of
 the commercial club. will be held On
 Friday evening al the Copper Queen
 hotel. Tickets for this dinner may be obtained from Will Solomon. chair man of the entertainment committee,
 or ! H. Gray, secretary of the com mercial club Good roads in general and the Border,and route in particu- lar will be discussed al this dinner. On Friday Bisbee will escort MT. Drum 10 Tucson. Bowen and Hubbard volunteered to furnish the car to car ry the pathfinder and other car owI- CTS have agreed to accompany this | car which is to be driven by !. ] 1 Bowen. The party wil proceed to | Tucson via Hereford. as the Border | land route is mapped out. and not over lthe divide and via Fairbanks. as there | is a ford at that point which it is Le- sired 10 avoid. While the .route over ' the divide is an excellent road the matter of fording the stream puts any i plan 10 go by that way out Of con [ sideTation.
 After leaving Tucson. the visitor | will be taken on to Phoenix, via Flor ence and the state capital will then | learn that there is another and better | way than the proposed northerly route that vas endorsed some tine since at the Phoenix meeting. It viii | also learn that signs are posted along ! the route and that the 3Orderland | IEroject is the first to be proven the 1 feasible and best way to drive from ocean to ocean. To be sure tine Los 1 Angeles cars tried the other route but Ithe progress they made is not 10 he compared with that thus far made
 and that expected hy Mir. Drum, nor
 will their work in laying out q route lbe sc systematic as his, besides the ! jorderiand Vill have the backing of
 the east. that of the TranscCntinental Tours club, and it is from the east | that tho greater number of tours start and most Of the routing Is done.