El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-29
OWNS NO CAR, BUT
BOOSTS AUTO ROUTE
Dell Potter, Roadway En-
thusiast, Drives to Town in
Southwestern Day Coach.

Big as a boilermaker. kissed to the
color Of new leather by the Arizona
sun. wearing a soft shirt and an ex-
cuse for a white tie his black hair
curling over a broad brimmed hat and
encased in a summer suit, Del Potter.
pioneer Ocean-tO-ocean highway boost
er OF the southwest, came into town
Wednesday afternoon on the cushioned
seat of day zach on the Southwestern.
Del drove over in the 1913 model Of
Southwestern car TO deliver a talk be
fore the chamber Of commerce on his
pet project, the southern, cOast-tO-
coast highway through Fl PasO.
Neither Drives Nor Owns Car.
odd as IL is, Potter neither drives.
owns nor sells automobiles. He does
not know one make from another he
saws Further and 10 the point he does
not give an Arizona whOOp, which is
a big one. What he is interested in
and for which he has been working
for SIX years, Is an OCean-tO-Ocean high
way from Washington city to San
Diego through FL PasO and Clifton. his
native heath. Del says il is written
. in the bond that the road is to come
through and in FL PasO. and that no
knights Of the double cross can shift
il to Needles or the Grand canyon
when ne or any others are asleep. as
il is buried in the body of the consti-
tuition.
Potter is a mining man at home.
Clifton on the hill But he is not home
much these days Of good roads work
in the south and southwest. He owns
a group of mines in the Clifton coun-
try. from which he'draws down few
sesterces with which 10 buy railroad
iare for his gadding trips over the
country preaching the gospel Of good
roads and the southern highway
As president Of the Southern National
Highway association, ID. Potter is some
pumpkins in cOast-tO-cOast classified
tiOns
Plans Trip to Washington.
To prove that he believes what he
says Del is getting ready to take a
few scribes, pharisee or two an en-
glneer sharp on good roads and a driv-
er with MIN and start from san Diego.
en- route to the national capital over
the southern route which he advocates.
This is TO be logging and boosting
trip and he viii get the best publicity
men to make the trip with him.
This party >wiu come through FL
PasO and Potter says to watch for
him down the Canine Real from Cruces
some time during the summer 1t viii
continue east from FL PasO and end
in the white house grounds. in Wash
ingtOn. The southern route as advO-
Gated by Mr.. Potter starts in Washing
ton, goes south TO Raleigh and Ashe-
vile. y. c., through Little Rock. Ark,
+ to Dallas, through san Antonio and
to Fl Paso.
West of FL Paso the trip is made To
. the ocean by way OF Las Cruces, Sill
yer City, DeminE Clifton. Globe and
: Phoenix. not forgetting the Roosevelt
dam From Phoenix the route is "a
Yuma, TO the south of the great nam
moth wash into the Imperial valley
and to san Diego, where the route viii
end.
To build this road, the Arizona pres
ident Of the association says that fed
Z eral appropriations Will be the sOlu-
I ton Of the financing difficulty Con-
gress viii be asked for enough "a
z build this highway and its ADVANTAGES
as the only all the year round course
viii be urged