El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-12
ne BorderIand Route.

was going forward with a. vim and
praised the FL PasO Automobile club
for its activity.
TIE BOrderIand Route.
Mr.. Testers letter follows:
Ny trip over the BOrderland Route
has been very interesting one to me
as ] have made side trips to all the
interesting places along the way
Your road, I now firmly believe. is
destined to be the great transcon-
tinental road, especially from Ell PasO
west, as the opening Of roads toward
san Antonio and toward Fort Worth.
the completion of the Canine Real from
Santa F'e south, viii make FL PasO the
great cOnverging point for the stream
OF travel to the coast I did fear for
the road from y una west but do not
do so any more; you must look well 10
your own section for I tell YOU san
Diego ard FL Centre will soon be on the
east bank of the Colorado river at
Yuma with a good road to meet you.
The making Of that route a state
highway viii permit the state to build
the road from the mountains east to
~ Centric from the state fund and
thereby enable Imperial county to use
all its funds to build its road from FL
Centre to Yuma This is all easy eE-
cept for about five miles through the
walking Hills where they now pro-
pose to carry the road over on a trestle
TO keep above the sands.
Good Road Finished.
san Diego has built, at great cost,
q good road clear through the noun
talnS into Imperial county and to The
Devil canyon. which is only a sand sur
facing proposition. ] would strongly
advise that your city get in close
matter. Poor Los Angeles is now pay
ing the price Of Jealousy and following
after strange gOCs-the Santa Fe trail
Tor one They got a $4,000 apprOpria-
ton for a bridge at Needles and gov
ernOr johnson vetoed il but approved
that at Yuma
The Ehren burg route to Los Angeles
is now practically abandoned and they
have $50 miles Of heavy work TO build
TO get from San BernardinO TO Draw
ley, while FL Centre has only about y
miles to build of which only about six
miles is heavy work
Road To Crater.
1 know FL PasO has much to do but
as a big road card to attract tourists
It would be wei if possible to build a
short direct trail to your crater west
of town as it is the only one I know of
that is available along the entire
route"
Forty New Members.
There were 40 new members who
have been obtained since last week.
Thirty-seven Of them We're obtained bv
Peter Kern, the life member of the
chamber who is the champion mem
Dersnlp getter With the addition Of
the 40 new members, the total member
ship of the chamber Of commerce il
now 625, which is an increase Of 24O
E---NH -fAcAe IL ~ men the mem DerEnIU
campaign was started. At the luncheon.
secretary Andy Reeves read a poem bv
Inn turner, poet extraordinary of III
Paso, about Peter Kern's wonderful
membership getting ability. The Witte
quartet sang during the luncheon as
the musical feature of the weekly Eet-
together meeting
New Members.
The new members brought IN by
W. n Carl ]. ] connors. C. W
Lorenz, B. Tom Smith, C. ". Ardoin
F. A LiendO. J. f Ferguson. Max
DaWedoff. S Stark. Ben BOthea. DR.. IT.
r. Wheat. A " DaEuerre. J. j.
Stadlman, Barney Cohn. B. r. Hlburn.
r W Baker, Dr. Geo. r. Cameron. F.
G. Hannah. A. G. NcMath. DR.. W. r
Jameson DR.. T. L Bishop. Bergers
Barber supply Co. Vim. Z. Nix. J. X
Iurbevile. Harry Pateman. r. f. Black.
; Q. j. ClausaSer. Thomas Z. Tinsley.
O. r. PerishO DR.. John c. SCHUYLER
Geo, D. Kendall. Fred Schaffer. C. N
Combs. Horace NJ Adams. d. G. Heine-
man, DR.. Carl Lee Smith. r. B. oliver
Other new members are G. A Reherd
Scott Photo Co, Hirsch-U Imann Shoe
company.