Bisbee daily review., 1913-06-22

to do this most effeetually concerted action is needed. The latest to rec ognize such need and to take up the matter of organization is Charles II. Akers of the Arizona Gazette who has written letters to all of tae newspapers and the commercial or ganizations along the route and has published the following editorial on the subject.
 Interstate Highway
 While other sections are discuss ing the Possibilities of oeean-to-ocean highways, there is a stretch of coun- try which the Creator seems to have specially designed for such pur- pose which the people living along it's route should not lose sight Of. That section is. that embraced be- tween San Diego. California. and El Paso, Texas. No better country for road building has been discovered than along natural route between these two cities.
 It would also be difficult to find an, other stretch of country along whicl so many good prosperous towns car be found and where the advantages Of soil and climate combine to Iur' nish homes for so many people Stretching across two entire states and well into a third, where the eli mate is as nearly perfection as can be found anywhere. where rich farcl ing and fruit lands are intermingled with rich mineral and fine stock lands Iit possesses a combination which is capable of providing homes for thot sands of happy. contented and pros porous citizens.
 Read the list of cities and towns through which it would pass. Com mencing at the eastern terminus and coming westward, we find Lordsbu:g Deming. Douglas, BisAee, Tucson, Florence, Mesa. Tempe. Phoenix Buckeye, Arlington, Palomas. Augua Caliente, Dome and Yuma, to the Cal ifornia line. Then comes Brawley. I'm perial Fl Centro and San Diego. al the western terminus.
 The great valleys embraced in the territory are the Rio Grande, an al junct of the Elephant Buttes irrigl tion project; the Sulphur Springs with it's undercurrents Of artesisa water; the San Pedro, a portion ol the Santa Cruz; the immense stretch of the Casa Grande and Gils rivers, the Salt river, under lho TOnto reservoir project the BucI, Leye and lower G.la: the Colorado river, lying partly in Arizona and party in California, and the wonder ful Imperial valley with all fthen possessing soil of the greatest fertil lity, and then the mesa country ad jacent 10 San Diego.
 Mines Of untold riches are foun, at various intervals along this s,retcl Of country, which add to the attract iFeness of the route and wealth of .fi practically unlimited resources. ! glance at a map of the country vii show that the area embraced in thi section of country aggregates sbou one thousand miles in length. or prsc ticaliy one-third Of the entire dis tance from ocean to ocean
 What Is the suggestion offered D this most remarkable showing On is that if a highway were built fror the extreme points mentioned aeroa the country as indicated, there woai
 Dc 8 highway covering onethird Of th distance across the continent. Tram
 continental tourists wou:d be a ! traeted to this and it would soon b,
 come the fasorite route Of all sue travel
 Another suggestion is that the ps'
 ple living along 1t should get togethe and work for first class road, bul