Mohave County miner., 1913-05-10
Lost---One Ocean-to-
 Ocean Highway.

fore perfectly good Ocean.to- Ocean Highway, perfectly good because never before used except in the colums of ths Gazette and the utterances of the aforesaid John Mitchell. This great and wonderful highway was pro- jected through the towering peaks of the White mountains, and as occasion might warrant from any old direction. north, south, east or west, with few compass variations as the exigencles of the occasion might warrant, just so that it pointed Pnenixward and land ed in the lap of Los Angeles. Snow covered mountain crests and wastes of desert sands afrighted not the boosters of this Ocean to Ocean route, the route that would not stay routed until rout- ed by the delegations from route that finally routed the only route that was worthy of routing across the country from Santa Fe to San Fran cisco-The National Old Trails Road Akers. and even Purdy Bullard, say that they had been presented with this route by the Old Trails Associa- tion and had paid their hard coin for the privilege of fondling it lovingly durin. the past year, only to see another and younger suiter pluck it from he cushions beside them and go dancing out of sight, leaving them only fond remembrances and vain re- grets.
 National Old Trails ere we part Hear, oh hear our mighty hollar- Ere to another section start,
 Give, oh give US back our dollar.
 This is the weeps that Phenix is weeping anent the losing of the Old Trails Road, which she thought had been copped out by the investment of few hundred dollars in membership in the National Old Trails Association. When the recent call was sent out by the president and secretary of the National Old Trails Roads Association, it was impressed on all the member. ship to be present at Kansas City and take part in its deliberations. Wi the call was also lnclosed the con, stitution of the association to which attention was called. As one of the objects, or for that matter the only object of the association, was the selec. tion of a route west of Washington and to the Pacific ocean and the securing of aid from congress for building and maintaining same, and as the route had been selected to Santa Fe, it naturally might be inferred that the selection of the route west of Santa Fe was necessity to place the matter ntelligently before congress to get action. The constitution fixed the route to Santa Fe and then follows this language: and along 'ths line of the most historic and scenic route to the Pacific ocean," as decided upon by the several states. Does this indicate that any one could present perfectly good road to the people of Phoenix to anywhere from nowhere in particular? Results have shown that they could not.
 Phenix, having copped the capital from Prescott, believes that anyone opposing it's grasp upon all of this round old earth is guilty of lese majeste and ought to be compelled to make trip over it's ocean to ocean highway in the good old summertime, and Charley Akers is even threatening to immolate himself on the sands of the desert in eXpiation of losing his grip on anything that had value in it.
 In recent issue of the Gazette was given a number of telegrams and what purported to have been a letter re- garding the loss of the highway from Faank A. Davis, secretary of the National Old Trails Road, but the Ga zette emasculated the explanatory part of the letter and falsely stated that the letter explained nothing. A copy of the letter was sent to the local organization at Kingman and shows fully the measly methods employed by the Gazette in cutting out the part that covered the point that the alfalfa journal was trying to make against the national organization.
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