Arizona republican., 1913-06-01
YUMA ROAD |S
 DEEP IN DUST
Bill Trcmainc Says Route PaSSabIe, But Deathly Disagl'eeable-F'iN Up the Route in Time for Tour His Earnest Plea

How to get news into paper Is the greatest trouble William D Ire maine found on his recent trjn to the coast, and he only succeeded Tn putting the news In ..nelvsUaner,. when he hove short along side the oeSh of the trouble man in The Re publican office late last evening
 Bill has just one thing 10 say, and mat Is he would never send a man 'o the coast by auto along the road to Yuma and to san Diego unless ha mated that said man with T heart1. anu Wholesome hate. But Bill is not knocker at that. Hes for the san DIeso tour, and will personally DiIot tHe ears across the desert. But his man object is to get action, quick. positive action on the matter of re palFlnS two or three places in the road to san Diego. So heres where q knock is a boost
 know you will not be afraid to say what l want you to nIeadad with San Diego papers not to over look the terrible condition of the road, but they would not listen So came back to the old Republican. to see if l could get some thinks across
 There are two places on the road that are mighty bad Not dangerous or impa ssible to most cars. but iusr plain. downright, disa greeable How would you like il. to drive within twelve miles of Yuma on a perfectly line road and then drop into a Dit Of bottomless dust Not sand. mind you, just dust It's so deep there the running boards go under And it rises under d cars wheels. gets into every moving part, gathers two inches thick on the seats, fills vOur eyes nose, clothes and drives you frantic. And it's hades on a car" Note. Bill did not say "hades."
 There are eight miles of this dust 10 within four miles of Yuma. Yuma people have promised to fix this part of the road but they have not done It vet want 10 see it fixed before We go to San Diego about July first. There is another patch the other side of Yuma. This is seven miles of the road that parallels the railroad 7ust this side Of Cflamis IL was necessary to take the track and drive it those seven miles. II train had come along We would have had to get off the track into that sand and the good
 
 got back on-and he wouldn't tell for twO-bits. A Ford car had gotten off the track and was stuck. II was not stuck because il was q Ford but sim ply because no car made could have got on. The Ford was able to get back on the track because il was light and the men pushed it. \ heavy machine would have stayed out
 The business men of san Diego received me heartily, but when I tried to get them to recognize the necessity Of fixing up that bit of road they couldn't see it. l told them the value of having pleased flock of Arizonans come into their burg. but they would not notice. I could not get through the newspapers there If nobody else takes q hand. but you, yours will he the credit for having woke people up and gotten the road fixed. 1 don't say the route is inn passible. but you can say Bin said it's mighty tolerabIe rotten to ride over just now"
 Bill went to Los Angeles. He dash ed back again. Friday he leaves for the Canyon to log the route of the Maricopa Auto clubs run to the can