El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-07
Ell Paso Has the All Year
Route for Motor Touring
The Only Athe Year Routes Across the Continent Pass
Through Here and California Has at Last Recog
nized This and Is Going to Help Advertise It
and Encourage Touring Rather than Injur-
ing the Game as It Has Done by AdvO-
eating Impossible Routes

I'll PASO Automobiles have been
II much elated this week at the
news printed in The Herald a
week ago from c. H. Lester, to the
effect that the Southern California
Automobile club had at last recog-
nized the superiority of the Border
land route through FL Paso as the
most feasible transcOntinental route
into and out of California, and that
Its members would sign the road
For many months Ell PasO has been
trying to make California see that it
could not carry water on all ShOuI-
Gcrs; that it must endorse some route
that is feasible and stick to it. This
meant the endorsement of the Bor-
derland, for that is the only feasible
al wear route into the state of sun
shine and tourists. The route through
Needles and northern Arizona is over
an impossible desert and a country
where the snow falls deep and lies
long NOrthWard along the Pacific
coast, the roads are good on an aver
age, but turning east, they run again
lErO the SHOWS and impossible roads.
This leaves the route through FL PasO
the only available route all the year
and the best route at any time Of the
year. Though IN the past, standing as
an endOrSer OF All UanSconIlnenCal
routes" California has at last real
lied this truth and that the only
thing to do is to advertise the right
route" and help create enthusiasm
for touring rather than turn out
knockers of the game. By sending
people over the impossible routes,
California has done much to give
touring a backset. Now the CalifOr-
mans are going to do their routing
through FL Paso, over a route that
will not discourage but rather en-
The AII-Year Route.
To advertise the Borderland route,
his pet of all the transcOntinental
@ q
personal contact, Mr.. Lester took up
the matter with California But the
Borderland is not the only available
route through FL Paso- Every trans
continental route in the country that is
open all the year. passes through here.
The BOrderland comes in here from
Kansas, down through Roswell, n.
NJ, and the beautiful MescalerO noun
tain and timber country; the South
ern National Highway also enters FL
PasO over the same route, coming in
to Roswell across the great plains
country from Dallas and Fort Worth;
the All-SOuthern National Highway /
enters FL PasO from Dallas by an
other direction, at present coming in
by way Of the wonderful HUeco Nat /
ural park, but in short time the
entrance route will be optional from
Sierra Blanca, either by HuecO or
over the new valley road. The New
York to San Francisco highway and
the San Antonio to San Francisco /
highway are both routed into FL PasO /
y
highway along the Rio Grande will /
enter Ell Paso through the valley.
These are the only highways that 1
are paSsable all the year; the only (
highways for which such a claim is /
made. Motoring in the vicinity of FL {
PasO is possible throughout the 365 |
days OF the year and it is not only /
possible, but pleasant throughout the (
year over all Of these southern high
ways, through FL PasO TO California /
and back. The roads are good and /
Ia a 10 HnrA Ill
sufficiently signed to keep the mo-
torist from losing his way and will /
be better signed in a few months. A
distinctive sign is being arranged for /
the BOrderland route and distinctive
signs viii also be put up for the 9TH
ers.
Money For Roads.
Hundreds of thousands Of dollars
are being spent right now upon roads
leading through the southern country
into and out Of FL PasO and, while
they are good roads at present an
other year viii see them excellent. [
They are far better today than the I
average country road in the east or !
middle west Owing to the charac-
ter Of the western soil, a good road
is soon made with little work. The 4
state Of New Mexico has been con- |
tributing much work of late on the
BOrCerland route west of FL PasO, /
particularly in Grant county. where !
the work was most needed, and the |
governor and state engineer of AI'i- /
iona nave set the state prison ROAD Z
force TO work on the .BOrderland |
highway in Arizona.
The scenery in the vicinity Of FL
PasO is among the finest in the coun-
try Beautiful mountains, fertile
valleys, broad mesas with their Won
derful variety OF rare wild flowers |
all contribute to the enjoyment of the /
mOtOrist Garages are plentiful, hotel
accommodations excellent in most
cases, ample in all cases water can /
be had at frequent intervals and there ]
is everything to delight the motor
ist Camping along the trails is the !
section, but this is from choice. not |
from necessity, for the towns with |
good hotel accommodations are plen-
tiful enough to afford stopping priv
ileges every few hours.
Many Possible Trips.
From FL PasO, many enjoyable
motor trips are possible in a day or
two, making FL PasO a delightful |
place for a stOpOver. The great Fle- I
plant Butte dam is but days drive,
rs miles; the Sacramento and White
are reached in less than a (
day; it is but two hours or driving
over paved roads north through the |
rich Rio Grande valley to Las Cruces.
al. hour more into the Organ noun I
tains with their almost perpetual {
SHOWS and their beautiful forests of t
juniper, aspens and ash.
Motoring down the FL Paso valley S
through the villages centuries old.
among the indian descendants Of pre- {
IasO, past fertile valleys and farms. :
INTO Mexico with its interesting war :
memories and its missions Of ancient ! t