Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-24
YUMA PHOENIX TANGLES ON
 HIGHWAY
Colorado River Town Throws Down the Gauntlet to Capital; Yuma Bridge Is Now Complet- ed and Soon Will Be Open.

The Yuma bridge spanning Che Col odado River from Arizona to Califor- mia. is completed and win be open for trahic within week This nlorma. ton was brought Co Bisbee yesterday by returning traveller from the river town
 Some two years ago the congress of the United States passed a resolution appropriating S25,000 for the construc- ton of a bridge across the Colorado providing the states of Arizona and California appropriated like amounts. Both Legislatures took action and last year the bridge was started
 Its completion marks new era in all kinds of vehicle traffic fromsCali- fornia Co Arizona and viceversa. by way of Yuma One of the big obsta- cles in motoring from this state Co California has been in getting across the muddy river lt was. al an times necessary Co secure the services Of a ferry which operated between the two shores During high water this sys- tenn was extremely dangerous
 According to the visitor Yuma as a town, is up on it's hind legs in rec gard to the alleged treatment of the Southern Highway Co PhoeniN The capital is charged with playing sever al strings and the indictment goes further and states that the strings are all being played to the middle
 Yuma according to rumor has put the matter squarely up Co Phoenix. intimating that unless the capital does what is right in regard Co recognition of the Southern Highway. that Yuma will take steps to connect the Cobra do river town directly with Tucson. by building a road along the line of the Southern Pacific. leaving Phoenix of the map
 Phoenix, it is said is trying Co hold the good will of the northern route. the middle route and Of the southern route, and playing the same game with an of them The coucensus of opinion in Bisbee among those who are lamir far with the situation is that the pol- fey is not unlike Phoenix in the least.
 The Southern Highway includes the Borderlaud Route, which is now the only feasible road for tourists across the United States Yuma is interest ed and justly so Bisbee is interested and the moral support of the Border land cities will undoubtedly go To Yuma in case of fight with Phoenix.
 The other routes throueh Arizona during the winter time, are. practical. ly speaking untenable Snow banks many feet in heighth. prevent the con sideratiop of the White Mountain road while snow and mud initiate against the consideration of the north. ern Arizona route This leaves the Borderland for travel
 Practically every tourist who has made the route between El Paso and Bisbee has declared that the Border land is the best road they have been over. There are some bad places ii is said. but these are Co be found, for the most part, in New Mexico
 The local auto club is anticipating that the tourists will start coming ai greater rate in the very near future and has lists made out in order to gel an to register Bisbee is the logica stopping place in Southern Arizona for cross-coHntry tourists and the To cal people are making an effort tC make this-tbe main point on the Bor derland and consequently the mair point in Arizona for tourists.