Arizona republican., 1913-03-08
NEW PHASE IF
 GOOD ROADS
National Old Trails Asso- citation Follows Most Gen erally Travelled Routes of United States; 31S0 Miles of Continuous Route

Good roads will be put up to Phoenix people in an entirely new way this morning when Organizer L. J. Kirker of the National old Trails Ocean to 1 Ocean Highway association. accom- panied by prominent local boosters, goes among the business men with the propositions of his organization. The fact that he has secured the indorsement of the board of trade good roads committee and that citizens committee has been appointed to help him with the work of or ganization, ought to help a great deal | in getting the people of Phoenix in line for the highway fight.
 MT kirker appeared al Thursdays meeting of the board of directors of the board of trade and was intro duced. When his wants were mace known q call was issued for the good roads committee. which met yester day with MT. Kirker In order to get wider action, the good roads com mittee selected q new committee com posed of j. C. Adams. chairman, | Dwight B. Heard. C. H Akers, John !! McCOndra. Mark Dunbar, William i Horreu and Lin Orme. In company with these men, Attorney General i Bullard, Frank Luke, William Costley. 1 Gordon Tweed and w C. Hartranft will begin work today for the inau- | guration of a local of the old Trails l association.
 l Phoenix has had several good roads propositions placed before it in the | few years since the transcontinental road plan was first preached. Being 1 situated at the juncture of five roads, | two from the west two from the east and one straight north, this town has . been rather hard put to it. which to support A number of organiZa 70 lions have been started and some of them carried quite way, but never has anything been brought out with the reaching importance of the new proposal.
 Route Settled
 The route of the new road Is ab- solutely settled. Gradually the ob- jections of other routes have been exposed until now it is certain the only year round road lies between Phoenix and Douglas and Phoenix and Yuma. It has been shown that more northerly roads are plugged with snow at some parts of the year, and in fact right now there is a four-foot fall of it on parts oi the Fort Apache road near the bor- 1 der.
 Plan of the Road
 In three weeks Kirker will have organized every town from here t' San Diego, the western terminus o the trail The association can ther go before congress and make its fight for the $20,O00,0OO with Whicf
 to lay out. grade and pave ever, one of the 3.1S0 miles between Wash
 ington, D. C., and San Diego, Cali
 fOrnia. Furthermore, the Daughter!
 of the American Revolution, whicl | organization was the very first L
 start the agitation for and suppOr the Old Trails scheme has gone ol
 record with the promise to electric
 ally illuminate every mile of tin
 road, and the nurSerymen of AmeriC; have already donated over hundret
 thousand young trees to line tn
 road. In brief that is the plan fo l the stupendOus national cross cOun
 try road.
 S14,0Oo,o0o for Paving
 There is no question about tn
 tremendous benefit to be derived frOr
 an 1S-foot paved road from Wash
 ington to the Pacific,' said Kirke