The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1913-10-24
THINK ABOUT IT! TALK
IT UP AND ACT ON 1T!

Think of the money that is be-
ing lost to the people of Navajo
county and the merchants of Hol-
brook and Winslow, from the fact
that there are better roads for
tourists than the one leading
thru these places. To my knowl-
edge there has been $50 cars
through Springerville and Globe
this season that should have
come through here. l have been
keeping track of the money left
in Holbrook by the parties that
have gone through, and l find
that we can count on at least $12
for every car that passes through
Holbrook. And this is not all
that they leave, there has not
been a party of tourists through
here this season that have not
left the information that the
worst roads they had travelled on
a trip from coast to coast, was
between st. Johns and Winslow.
Now, this is mighty poor adver-
tisiug matter for this county.
We have two of the best nat
ural drawing cards that lay along
any of the coast to coast routes,
the Petrifed Forest and the
Grand Canyon, and to come this
way does not pull them out of the
way of any other noted places.
So why should these people GO
any other route? If the roads
are as good or better than they
can find some other way, they
wont! The tourist trade would
be beyond our fondest fancy.
Two years ago there were so
few cars going through this
country that they were curios-
itv, and people felt that it was
an impossibility for an automo-
bile to cross the desert. But they
CAN, they DO, and WILL! And
now it is up to the people along
the different routes to make roads
that will enable them to call it a
pleasure and not a hardship to
cross the continent by automo-
bile.
There has been, since the first
of April to the present time, IA
machines through Holbrook. and
these parties have left at least
$12 on an average, which means
almost $1,OO left in Holbrook,
and on the other hand $50 have
gone through SpringervilIe and
Globe, this means that $4,000 get
away from the merchants and
hotels of this town. Why? Be
cause the roads were recommended
to be better in some other direc-
tion, which we must admit is the
truth.
The increase in the number of
machines going through this
country in the last two years has
been something wonderful. re-
gardless of the bad roads. And
with the Panama Exposition
coming on, and good roads as an
we can count on at
least 5000 machines through this
town in 1915, which means
$50, 900 to the town of Holbrook
to say nothing of the
pleasure of such good roads for
our own use. Is it worth going
after? Of course it is! But we
have got to go after it or we will
not get it, and the way to get it
is to make roads that will be re-
commended by the people that
are going through now. For
these people all have friends in
the east that are only waiting to
find out how the roads are before
starting out. And it is the roads
that these Pioneers in the tour
ing game condemn that will be
stunned in the future.
Now let's wake upl Think
about it. Talk about it. Get
others to thinking, and talking.
Let's get together and have
meeting and talk it oyer, and
decide the best way to get this
GOOD ROADS movement start
ed. We need it, and we can't
afford to hesitate or wait longer.
L Il ~