Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-24
WESTGARD LOST
 IN WIRE TANGLE


 HOpelessly lost in a labyrinth, en. twisted. entwinei entaugled and strangled by barbed wire, the so-cail- ed Doug as Way between the Sme.- ter City and Huachuca Siding gave it's last expiring sasp Friday n.gbt and can now be laid away in grave marked by fence posts. not a single monument, but hundreds Of them.
 Where once it wound it's sinuoIs course now are dry farms and the honk of the auto horn and the whir of gasoline engines are silent
 When it was announced finally that the A. A. A. was to have the Bor- derland mapped and logged, B.s5se arrange to guide the pathhnders over the State Highway ronte. through Fairbank. Tombstone and into Bis bte and sent a pilot car to Tucson to greet the tourists They were me. hy J. j. Bowen and party at HuachI- ca Siding by J. R. Henderson am Bassett Watkins at Fairbank, by the supervisors and others between Fair bank and Tombstone and arriytd in Bisbee in good season, were able tO proceed on to Douglas and arrive before dark But Douglas would not yield tO the ineystaDle even then. They urged and insisted that the pathfinder car should log the Here ford route at least as an alternative route and Mir Westgard yielded and Friday granted the request of the DoUglasites.
 What a contrast did the Westeard party find between their trip of Fri- day and that Of six days before. They made an earlier start from Tucson. bu, their arrival in Bisbee was three hours later than t had been the Sa-- urday previous when they trayersed the State Highway Then they were able 10 delay for more than an hou in Tombstone and enjoy a hearty lunch but on the second trip they were force to content themselves with bread and beer at Huacbuca Sizing and still only by good fortune were able to reach Bisbee by 9 o'clock Had it not been for the fact that J R. Henderson had happened to go cut with a party hunting the toothsome cotton tai, the pathfinders might still be finding a path through the bar5ed wire maze. Of course, if Doug as had sent out a scouting party 10 discover l what happened to be the way through ! for that particular day it might have been different, but somebody was asleep at the switch, the foolish maid l ep had not filled her lamp and the tour sts were left to grope their way in darkness until they fortunately happaned on the Bisbee rabbit hunt CTS. It was a joyous visit, for the shades of n.ght were falling and tht party were hearing the rythm of that olssong 'Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" with the words changed 10 Camping on the Barbed Wre Trail, when the party heard the pop or shot guns and found the Henderson party
 After beIated dinner in Bisbee restaurant, Mir Westgard told some thing or his days experience. They were lost three times between Hua chuca Siding and Hereford. They had sought exit after ext, only to be turned back by fences. They had had more than a sufficiency of the Douglas Way
 It is absolutely hCpeless,' said Mr. Westgard It is the worst Gl- legged highway, except for the Mammoth Wash. that We have mel between the Atlantic and Pacific CT on the way back. We look in vain for a directing sign and turn into a long fenced lane, and when We set about half way down with no way to turn out we find sign that amour ces the Douglas Way. Then ~e would come to a cross road and look in vain for another sign.
 What is the use of mapping a road when it will be changed before the notes can reach New York. saw them continuing their fencins yesterday. I should say that at pres ent there is no established route via Hereford and any one attempting to go that way must go at haphazard.
 On the arrival of the pathfinder iia Bisbee under the escort Of Mir. Hen derson a few of the good roads en- thusiasts were gathered together to greet the visitors. They wcre giy- en some fine specimens of copper ore and malachite and few other sou venirs and started on to Douglas shortly before II o'clock. with still another experience to be recorded in their Arizona tour, trip over theI tarbed wire route
 Before leaving B.sbee they were given a map by J. J. Bowen showing the best way to reach Solomonviile by way of Forrest Ranch, Courtland. Pearce Wilcox and Bowie, so that they might avoid another such un- D easant experience on the way n2 to the Gila Valley.
 Utah copper pro5aetion in the sec cnd ouarter 2I 7S544S as compared