Arizona republican., 1913-05-27
GOOD ROADS IN
 THE SOUTHWEST
One Report Shows That Forty Million Will Be Spent Here Before 1915; California Is Champion Road Builder.

The Why of good roads long has
 ceased to be the subject of frenzied
 peroration, verbal or newspaper. but
 the question of How" is one that staggers the minds of the deep think
 ing. Once the giant intellectS of the
 nation thought they had a system
 whereby in a short time autOists
 would all be enabled to roll at ease across the United States. propelled
 by d purring motor, cushioned by ppeumaticS which found never a bump in the satinY smoothness of a long winding paved scenic and his toric highway. In plainer English,
 the public was to look to the federal
 government to aid the states to put ill a transcontinental highway. But federal aid was not forthcoming on
 q silver platter. Indeed if there is to be such thing as governmental help,
 it will come only after the most ear nest solicitation of the most powerful
 men in the good roads game.
 While the associations, societies, clubs cliqucs, lobbies and setteray are fussing over how to get the old Uncle in Washington to delve
 into his jeans for the price of a few
 thousand miles of paved road. the
 states. particularly those of the west. are going ahead to build what high
 way they can, depending on bonds
 and such for the remuneration.
 An investigative man who was in
 terested in rubber. thereby in auto
 mobile tires and hence in good roads
 did some sleuthins about this south
 west a short time ago, and the re-
 suit of his calculations and in Vesti- cations was incorporated in a bit of q report. From that report are se-
 lccted the following items.
 Before the opening of the Panama exposition in san Francisco in 1915. more than $4O,O00G00 will be eX- pended for good roads in Colorado Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada. Cali fornia and Utah. and that as re- suit of his calculations and inVesti- motor vehicle financing will be prac- tlcally unlimited for the next ten years"
 Hendrie, of the Hendric Rubber company, is himself head of d con cern that is building $1oo,0Go auto tire factory at Torrance. . suburb oi Los Angeles.
 According to the report. which will
 be sent to New York during the next ten days, ~California leads the devel- opment in road work. with the eX- penditure by the state of SIS 000,o01 1 for two lines of good road from the Mexican to the oregon boundaries l Los Angeles county will lead the state with $3,500.00O already expended and with a program of 100 miles of good road q year for the next decade other counties in California are not far behind.
 Colorado comes second with it. newly created highway commission which IS spending $1.000,000 this year | +. the beginning of it's road work | The Colorado commission expects tc 1 get half million dollars from the 1 counties 1n addition to the state l fund.- and with this money will put ! in 395 miles of road to add to th< | 4,5O0 miles of fair road already ir 1 existence
 l Tn Utah and Nevada the work oi | connecting up with the Colorado roads to make a central roadway fOl 1 autos from the Rockies to the coast
 is being handled by the legislatures | In Arizona and New Mexico the | Ocean tC- Ocean highway people anc the old Santa Fe Trail association