Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-16
BIG TOURING
 PARTY COMING
Gray Brings Word of 200 Cars -Isip From New York Over 'he Borderland Route Inter esting Story Told

mat one party or at least zoo cars will pass through Bisbee in 1915 en route from New York to San Fran cisdo and the exposition is an assur- ance that Joe Gray, secretary of the Borderland Route Association brings back from New York. This he learned from the president and the chairman Q, the tours committee of the A. A. A. who told him that already plans for the trip were underway. that there would be mIre than 200 cars and that i. has already been determined that the run will be in the winter and that the Borderland Route had been SC. iected.
 In New York. Gray found much iu- terest manifested in the road work that is being done fin southern Ari- zona. He met practically all of the Cfficers and officials of the A. A. A. and the yice-president of the Nation. al Highways association. Tlc them te explained the conditions in this stite and the reasons that go to make the Borderland the only avail. able all the year round route to and from the Pacific coast. He received assurance that the Borderland is in cluded in the routes proposed by the idlls that will be introduced through the A. A. A. and the National High ways association. He also met botn A. L. Westgard. W. Q. l.. Westward and F.. l.. Ferguson. the three path finders who last summer and fall traversed and logged the route. None of these have as yet completed their maps. but Gray arranged to obtain copies SO that 1t will be possible -to i'd siribute prints If the entire route and strip mapE from city to city in the near future. It will be part oi the work of the Borderland Route as sociation to have these ready foi tourists
 In Fl paso President Rinehart Of the Auto Club told him of racing plans for next year. These include a race fI'-m Dallas and Houston to E IP. Q week before the Fl paso to phoenix race. Thus an interval sui ficient to cover the course twice will occur between the races and 1t is eX pected most of the Dallas cars will participate in the subsequent race through this city to Phoenix. These three races would give combined running distance of about 2l00 miles and vt, yd be the greatest road rae ing events that the country has eyei seen. giving advertising of inestim able value to the All Southern and the Borderland Routes. At the re cnest of Mir Rinehart Gray took ul this matter with the racing board oi the A. A. A. and received the assur ance of the sanctioning of all three events.
 While in New Orleans, Gray was in terviewed for the New Orleans Item whose publisher is the chief promotes of the All Southern Route which sent out Mir. Ferguson, and as a result o this interview he found on his return to Bisbee a letter from St Charles La. relative to the formation of prop, sed All Southern Highway As sociation to which he replied that tho Borderland Association would. he be lieved. be glad to participate and generally cooperate but must retail its own identity as it would also dS all possible for the National Higs ways Galveston route.
 Gray has prepared a report Tor th' Warren District Auto Club and is a work on a more voluminous repori for the directors Of the Borderlant Assnciatinn A