The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-08-29
TRANSCONT|NENTAL HIGHWAY INCLUDES
 CLIFTON

American Automobile Association l Arrive In Clifton On Mapping : Tour That Reaches From
 Los Angeles To New
 I York City.
 l The Westgard party, engaged il mapping a route for a national auto mobile highway that will reach from Los Angeles to New York City, ar rived in Clifton last Sunday night The party is under the auspices of the American Automobile Association, the
 object being to log an automobile
 route through the northern part of the
 United States, a necessity being fol
 a route that will be practicable
 through the months of winter fol
 tourists motoring from coast to coast
 The party is now on the way to the
 East, having begun at Los Angeles
 the western limit of the proposed
 highway, which will have New York
 City as the Eastern end, and which
 will include the following principal
 cities: New York City, Philadelphia,
 Baltimore, Washington, Ashville,
 Memphis, Nashville, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Texarkana, Paris, Dallas, Ft.
 Worth, Sweetwater, Roswell, Alama-
 gorda, Las Cruces, Fl Paso, Deming,
 Lordsburg, Duncan, Clifton, Stafford, Globe, Roosevelt Dam, Phoenix, Buck
 eye, Yuma, Imperial Valley, Los An geles.
 MT. Westgard is also employed by | the Good Roads Department <of the
 United States government, as from
 the information gained by him dur ing the mapping tour data will be compiled that will be used in that de- partment. This logging tour will prove of great impetus to the South erR National Highway Association, of which MT. Dell Potter is active head, as the route followed by MT. West gard is the route selected by that as- Sociation. Plans for this route are actively taking form, and construc- tion, by states, is in many places con- summated and projected, thus making bright the prospects for national highway that will traverse the south l ern states. The building of such a highway would prove of incalculable benefit to the sections through which 1 it would pass, as the attention of the heaviest investors of the nation would be directed to the advantages of the l country along the route. MT. Potter states that it is an assured fact that Clifton will be reached by the propos- ed highway, provided a road of suf- i f1cient deSirabiiity is constructed from Clifton to some point in the Gila Val ley. It is probable that no more profitable investment could be made by the people of Greenlee county than the construction of a connecting road | to the highway, for the advantages to be gained by access to the stream of l traffic pouring over the highway would be of such magnitude that they could not be overlooked.
 | It goes without saying that the route finally bearing the transcon- tinental traffic will be the route that 0-f 1o fo fh0c yh0 froU 1 it, and to make a route appeal to tourists it must offer inducements, chief among which are roads that are easily passable, beautiful scenery, etc. But the paramount issue in the selection and use of a route will be the condition, as a whole, of the roads traversed. It is claimed that the Borderland route, just at present, of fers a better road than does the Globe Clifton route, yet it is an un- disputed fact that the latter route of fers to the tourist some of the most beautiful scenery on the continent, and this in addition to the Roosevelt Dam, one of the worlds greatest achievements, and which has aroused a national interest that will induce the drawing of thousands of tourists. Also, present indications are that the Globe-Clifton route will soon ex- eel the Borderland route in regard to the character of the roads, as the completion of bridges over the vari- ous rivers on the route will remove one of the chief arguments hereto fore advanced against the more northern route And it must be re- membered that the excessive heat of the Borderland route, in the summer months, will initiate against it's use, should it finally be selected. While it is probable that more than one route will be used by the automobile parties crossing the country, at this time it seems safe to say that, by su- perior inducements, the Globe-Clifton route will be given the final approval of the American Automobile Associa- tion.
 MT. Potter states that $4,S00, 900 00 has been appropriated for road con- struction and improvement, by sev- eral of the states through which the proposed highway passes, and that the roads constructed can be used as part of the highway. This is in addi- tion to large amounts already ex- pended by the national government for the building of bridges over the San Carlos, Gila and Colorado rivers, and which bridges are on the route selected for the highway. If the route selected by the Southern Ma tional Highway Association proves to be the route that appeals to the American Automobile Association, it is considered that federal aid for the route will be rapidly forthcoming, it being the intention of the officers of the Southern National Highway As sociation to ask for such aid at the coming regular session of Congress.
 MT. Potter returned last Saturday from an extended trip to sections In the Southeast, where he worked un-