Arizona republican., 1913-12-23
Coconino Motorist Tells of Co-Operation That Has Made Possible the Good Roads. and More of Elm in the North.
SUBJECT WAS THE
 MOKI MOTOR TOC R
Southern Tourists Learn Of United Effort From Their Northern Brethren in W ell Known "Motorcade' to Snake Dance.
(By a Coconino Autoist) '.

A well known Phoenix motoring i enthusiast stood looking at proces- sion of sixteen big machines being : helped one by one over a stretch ot blown sand in the lee of one of the ridges that line the north side of the l Little Colorado river between Tol- l chaco and Walpi last August He 1 saw fifty men-nearly the entire male contingent, in the party set hands to l a big six cylinder car and lightly | heft it over the bad spot. and he ] murmured something like this
 Now. I know why the Ocean to | Ocean highway is going across north | ern Arizona and not by the Border 1 land"
 What the Phoenician really saw was hand co-operation: not the mouth variety. Sixteen large auto mobiles in a TOW: fifty strong men; add them and you get in this in stancc-co- operation.
 The occasion was that of the Wed nesday before the Moki snake dance at WaIpi The day previous fifteen cars had left Flagstaff and made it safely to the Indian village on the mesa.
 1 The Wednesday party contained six different makes of machines. The owners in most cases were TiCG sheep men and merchants. and their i friends Not vet entirely forgotten were the days in which their muscles 1 had supplied their mouths. And when 1 it came to adding man power to that : of steel and iron. they were there like i so many ducks. And real ducks they i were before they reached the farnad rock town of Walpi, for on the roll : ing mesa just six miles below the i butte the rain came. In q moment i the dusty dry desert was covered i with sheets of yellow water. The roads disappeared under torrents. that cut down the ruts until the or dinarily naVigable high centers' caught the cars in the region of the aprons and ensued some mighty struggles to keep moving Pretty soon the water began running off with that rapidity that makes Ari- zona desert rains despicable 10 road makers. Wherever the little streams 1 found a beaten path in the rut side l they cut through and it didn't take ! lchg before that first tiny tricklc Was a six feet wide wash, depth unknown. condition of bottom ditto.
 Then came the second and greatest i exhibition of co-operation. ShoveIS
 
 Erawny men set to work hacking down the steep washed banks of the &rroyos- Others prepared the frs; car for the trial It was d long six and when it went down into the " shaped wash it's nose was nearly yer tically under it's hind wheels
 Stuck"
 That cry brought ropes and men and in tiffv the five thousand pound beauty Was yanked out of its ridiculous acrobatic position and se- ahead. Then the men went at the second car. while women gathered hrush To surface the fast melting bottom Of the treachelous wash.
 The result of all this toil was some niles of absolutely new-built road. several rebuilt wash approaches AND JUST SIXTEEN CARS AT THEIR DESTINATIONS.
 Flagstaff has no regularly organ ized nationally supported and affi!i- &ted automobile club But Flagstaft motorists are onto their jobs when .t comes to helping one another, Not only does cooperation mean to them. Get your ncjghbOr out of chuck hcle," but it means help him put Flagstaff on the map as d link town ir the Ocean-to- Ocean highway o4
 
 ID. The same influences that broueh, forty Flagstaff automobile parties safe and sound back from the wear lnG two-day desert journey to the Moki snake dance. secured for tn, northern tier of Arizona counties tho route cf the National old Trails Ocean to- Ocean highway at the Kan
 <as City convention. At first it Wa, not fully understood how the light
 ninS-lke change had come about ] from the Borderland historic to tn,
 northern scenic route. But bit o | q view of Flagstaff motorists in tn,
 heat Of action showed the reason fo 1 the whole matter plainly enough.
 There are two reasons for the de
 Nelopment of the motor sense Q
 Flagstaff and the people reabOut | One is the splendid set of scenic ano | historic motor roads through thu | Castein part of Coconino county. anC l .he other is the fact that the motor l ing element is largely made up o
 t1C reliant se!f-made men of the bis
 lumber and sheep camps, the grown l up-with- -the-country sort merchant
 and producers-and few consumers.
 Arizona has been called the Natura
 Road state. because within her boun
 daries there is more natural roa' 1 tran in any other state in the UniOI l except California. \ goodly share O
 the states natural roads lie in tn
 mountainous country of the Sal 1 FranciscOs. Grades there are. ii
 true, but what's grade to goo