Arizona republican., 1914-06-22
Ocean-to-Ocean Hig hway Will Bring Thousands Through Phoenix Next Season, When Plav-Places Are Assured
COOPERATION TO
 SECURE PARKS
Highway Association and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Promise Aid Espee Helps Also-Road Signs Coming

A year ago a magazine carried an article about Phoenix, which started out this way:
 Five great transcontinentai high ways pass through Phoenix. Now it is possible to say that the same five highways continue to pass through Phoenix, and that one Of them passes through two national parks, both within q hundred miles of AriZonas capital.
 Here's food for many a boost arti- cle. With tourist travel stimulated neyond the ordinary. by the two great California world fairs next spring. thousands of motorists will Lass through the two parks, and ne cessarily through Phoenix.
 The Ocean-tO- ocean Highway as sociation has been asked for and 1 has promised cooperation in getting the Arizona national park bill | through congress. The Los Angeles l Chamber of Commerce has also pro missed to throw the weight of it's endorsement with the proponents of | the national park fos this state. Vigorous work on the part of mi1 1 de western members of the ocean l to ocean route has revived this | rather abandoned highway, and now 1 that saner method of boosting is being pursued, it looks like success for tine middle way" Agitation be- gun in Phoenix for an Albuquerque
 to-Phoenix automobile race was one | of defunct route The logging by dis tricts and the weekly reports of ob . servers have also added to it's popu- larity. The final touch was added iwhen the Southern Pacific Railway tccmpany asked that the Globe
 Phoenix section of the highway be
 repaired so that the exposition eX-
 cursionists might be routed that way
 in autos next year, and the counties
 of Maricopa and Gila. and the cities of Phoenix and Globe took steps to
 assure the improvement of the road. 1 It is not every hundred mile high Way that has two national parks. Ot course this route has but one, now but everyone is so confident that the Arizona national park will be created
 that it is justifiable to call them a lrair
 The repair of roads in the Sajuara
 national park. eight miles east ol
 Phoenix. will be urged upon congress
 soon The Board of Trade already has written Congressman Carl Hay
 Gen, asking him to see about includ-
 ing the Sajuara park in the list fol which road appropriations is made There is little else that can be done
 to make that HOle-in- the Rock dis
 trict a park in fact as well as iI
 name-except to build and repair
 roads. At present, the state high
 way, 9 part of both the oCean-to ocean and the borderland routes passes through the park. Two othel
 roads pass through it: the Crosscu power canal road and the extension of the Mcdowell road. north of tn, Red Buttes All are in bad need O U attention.
 In q short time, the Board O . | Trade. together with the state en ' | gineers office and the county, vii have evolved a system for signin!
 the Roosevelt road. Danger alarms
 information guides and signs callin
 attention to special attractions in tn way of historic or geographical feat
 ures, will be placed along this sceni
 route Samples of the excellent roa
 signs used by the Southern Califor
 nia Auto club are now in possession of the board, and data is being col U lected from time to time.
 'r It is estimated that with the s. /. tourists coming through Phoeni - next year, the national highway y will bring a total of over 10000 per
 sons into the salt River valley, O !, their various ways across the con
 tinent.