Arizona republican., 1913-02-24
ROUTE IS CIRCLE
 75O MILES AROUND
Entire State Will Benefit
 From Tour; Its Time Is
 May 21 While Medicos Meet In Globe; COmpre- hensive plan of the Event
Splendidi
 We're for it

s0i1ltuuAO- We're for it!
 What? A central Arizona automobile tour a voyage through the Switzerland ot America. the middle of this big state. where there is combined in few hundred square miles more varied scenery and more different places 10 see than in any similar area on this blessed globe
 Quietly. but firmly. the Arizona Automobile association and the Mar fcopa Auto club working in cahoOts, have arrived at the announcing stage with a proposition so big and so good it almost takes the breath away. It ts the Canyon course, the Roosevelt Dam. Globe Fort Apache. Holbrook. Terrified Forest. Winslow, Canyon, Diablo. Hopiland Cliff Dwellings, Grand Canyon. Flagstaff. Ash Fork, Prescott. Phoenix automobile tour, open to everybody who can scrape up a gas wagon. and is willing to be q good fellow just for about ten or twelve days For weeks, yes. since the Motorcade the Automobile show, the organization of the local dealers in the Arizona Automobile associa- lion. there has been talk of a Canyon course. IL was discussed quietly among motorists. Ii was broached Ut the auto mems banquet, and after the strong hearts of the motor set had been seen. were conquered and came in. the time has come to let the public know what it is all about.
 The plan is this. On May 21. the
 z t1,o A,i zona Medical association in Globe. the run starts from Phoenix, with the Roosevelt dam as the objective point. In three divisions the motorists will travel from here to Globe and from here to the Canyon by way of Globe and back by Prescott. Division A will be for those who want to go to the convention city only and plan on coming back to Phoenix after the me dicos are through: division B. will go on through taking the itinerary named above and making the trip in ten or fourteen days; division "C" is for the nimrOds and fishing rods, who want to camp on the way, fish, hunt and kill time.
 Each division will be scored and cared for separately. The big motor car companies in the east have been asked and two of them have promised to help the tour with prizes and ma terials. The Hupmobile people and the makers of Hudson cars have both signified their willingness to boost the tour, providing cars of those two makes are in, and figuring that Me Condra and Hoeye and J. S Morrison are among the strongest packers Ot the tour, there is no danger of these firms not being represented both with ears and men.
 Quietly but firmly the chambers oi commerce. mayors, motorists anC others in each of the cities on the route have been approached by the schemers in Phoenix. and the result is boiling enthusiasm. In almost every town on the course men have writer back asking to be allowed to join tht tour. and they were all accepted. too Arrangements for the actual run have in many instances been completed, or the C. T., it is true, but nevertheless: completed. The route has been care fully checked, and briefly it is this From Phoenix to Roosevelt along tht well known government road. and tC Globe on an equally splendid one from Globe to Fort Apache along the Rice station route; from the fort tC HolbroOk, eighty miles of government built boulevard from Holbrook tC Winslow and on around Canyon Di- ablo on an assured highway, Whicf Dr. Whiteside of Kingman. presiden of the northern Arizona cross state roads association has promised to pu in splendid condition; from Flagstaff to the Canyon on the famous pike sround the san Francisco Peaks, on' of the very finest drives, both as tC surface and scenery the American continent can boast of: from tht Canyon to Ash Fork, thence to Pres colt and from the Hilltop to th' Valley down Yarnell Hill and homo again.
 It is proposed to form an 8SSOcia tion, with officers and directors thu purpose of which is to promote thu run. Governor Hunt, Attorney Gen eral Bullard, Power Conway, Dr Redewill and many others are be hind the thing, which also has thu undivided support of both the Arizona Automobile association and the Mari copa Auto club The dealers hav' litdut IL DOSSlDlt TOT IDuTe1S lO Sc their gas, oil and tires at cost. Th' Maricopa Auto club has made it cer tain that society will take to the tOul like bears. And the aforesaid Influ ential Personages assure the genera success of the whole undertaking. Tn, cooperation of the hotels, boards O. trade and motorists organization: throughout the state has been secur- ed both by letter and by personal visits and if there is anything left to dc when the arrangers get through, tn, host cities in the north and middle north will certainly take care of it.
 The Canyon course will be of ines timable benefit to everything i touches. First of all, it will affec good roads, for never was an organ. ized motor run that did not bring about a stronger sentiment for high