El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09

7 graphed to show the commercial de
/ velOpment of the south.
Automobile clubs and commercial or
! CARNATIONS displayed a decided inter
/ est in the motion picture feature o
I the A. A. A trip and rendered tn
/ car and its crew receptions along TIT
( route that rivaled the turnouts tina
! greeted the Indiana-Pacific tourists
] on their trip in July.
Hospitality and enthusiasm never
! had a better illustration than during
/ the trip through Arizona, New Mexi-
/ &C and Texas.
While the veteran pathfinder was
I rolling across the hot sands of Ari-
iona and New Mexico, automobile
clubs and municipal organizations
I along the proposed route were show
| ing more genuine interest in the pro-
Z ject than was shown on any of the
four previous trails surveyed by the
A. A. a.
An average of five to ten kilograms
a day passed between enthusiastic mo-
/ florists along the route and the A 4
A. headquarters at New York city and
every effort was made to arrange
big receptions for the dry land eX-
plOrer.
One reason for the added interest in
the route is that this will be prac-
tically the only transcOntinental trail
that win be open to automobile tour
Ists all the year round
Part of the western end Of the
route selected by pathfinder West
Ocean highway which is being boosted
by the association bearing that name
and which was surveyed last summer
After a number of detOurs in Texas
for the purpose of connecting up sew
eral well known transcontinental
roads so that tourists will have plenty
of agreeable options, the pathfinder
headed east through Little Rock, Mem
phis, Nashville, Knoxville, Roanoke
and Washington, D. c.
Spirited Contests.
The most spirited competition ever
encountered by the American Auto
mobile association in laying out and
developing five different transcOnti-
mental routes was in Texas, the entire
length Of which has just been ira
versed from west to east by Mr.. West
gard Great Importance IS lent to this
particular trip-the longest of all and
the only one that can be Travelled
throughout the year-because the
largest share of road Improvement
throughout that territory is likely to
be along the line carefully selected
by this routing and mapping expedi-
ton.
From FL Paso on the Rio Grande the
route finally chosen passes through
AlamOgOrdO, Roswell, SWeetWater, Alb
ilene, Mineral Wells. Fort Worth, Dali
las and Paris TO TeXaFkana on the
Arkansas river. the Texas Arkansas
roads were found for hundreds Of
miles, while other long stretches were
seen to need considerable improve
ment to fit them for the large amount
OF travel certain to come by 1915.
Along the entire line the people of the
Lone Star state were enthusiastic over
the new through route, and pledged
their support toward its building and
maintenance
1t is significant of the statewide in
terest aroused that before Westgstrd
had entered western Texas, the people
along the lower route from FL PasO
through Sierra Blanca, Alpine, Fort
Stockton and San Angelo had started
vigorous movement to pOpularize
their route, and asked the American
Automobile association to log that
also A similar application was re-
ceiVed from the cities and towns along
the line from Roswell through Mid
land to Fort Worth and Dallas. Grad
uauy these and the other important
through roads viii be charted with
the result that Texas viii not only be
placed on one of the great trunk lines
between the Atlantic and Pacific but
that the data necessary for travelling
the principal routes within the state
viii be really available for the visit
ing mOtorist