El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
Ell PA50 A JOY To MOTORISTS;
GOOD ROADS AND FINE WEATHER
Plenty of Fine Scenic Trips Close to the City With Tour
ing Always Joy Because of Climatic Conditions
More Motor Cars Than Any City in the
Country Of the Same Population
By G. A. MARTIN IN MOTOR YIELD.


Houston san Antonio, and Dallas, Tex.
This route does not run up into New
Mexico, but comes directly throusI II
western Texas, touching SweetWater,
san Angelo Fort Stockton, Alpine anu
! Maria, Tex
The New York to san Francisco Ma
4 tionaI Highway, which traverses a part
( OF the Southern Highway and enters
! Ell PasO over the same route as the
! Al Southern highway
The san Antonio to San Francisco
! Highway. which starts at san Antonio,
Tex. and is projected westward along
J the Southern Pacific railroad from that
/ city to FL Paso.
I Highway, which, is to start at Browns
/ Vile Tex, and follow the Rio Grande
y the international boundary stream be-
( tween the United States and Mexico, to
I EI Paso. At Brownsville, the road
: would be fed by any number of roads
/ from southern Texas The All-South-
/ ern National Highway would offer an
/ optional route out of Houston over that
/ road or up by way of Dallas.
Through FL PasO to the West.
Westward from Ell Paso, all these
] roads would follow the same course
7 across New Mexico. north Of the Next
can boundary. At Lordsburg, n. NJ,
there are two optional routes-the
I Borderland on through Bisbee, Douglas
and Tucson to Phoenix. or the Globe
EkOOSENelL route on through NTLOUts
AriZ., past the Roosevelt dam and into
Phoenix From Phoenix the route is
through Yuma and on to San Diego.
How the Roads Run.
The state of New Mexico, while off,
cially sanctioning two routes that keep
the tourists in the state wholly-one
west from Albuquerque to the Needles
and one westward from San Antonio
n. NJ, to Globe and the Roosevelt dam
in AriZona-is building its first mac
adam highway straight through from
the Colorado line to FL PasO, giving
tourists from that state the option of
going east or west over either Of the
roads out of FL PasO and picking up
those bound nOrthward after arriving
at FL PasO either from east or west.
This New Mexico road is already COM
pleted from the Texas line north
through Las Cruces to Leasburg, a dis
lance Of so miles, and the road is in
fair condition from Ell PasO to the Ele
plant Butte dam, 11S miles north Of
FL PasO. This run can easily be made
Of the very interesting side trips from
Ell Paso, since the Elephant Butte dam
is larger than the Roosevelt dam in
Arizona or the Assouan dam in Egypt /
The capital of the United States, in
verted and set down into the space
occupied by the great concrete dam /
would not fill the space. The lake /
being formed by this dam viii b 30
miles in length.
Auto Club Active.
The FL Paso Automobile club has
been an active factor in good roads
work and has paid from its private
funds for the construction Of a road
leading out of FL PasO westward to
Arizona though the construction work
was done in New Mexico. This piece of
road was necessary to put Automobiles
over a big hill Of sand onto the level
mesa OF table land Of New Mexico. This
club also secured funds for blasting
volcanic rock from the road a. miles
west Of FL Paso in New Mexico. The
club has signed all roads leading into
and out Of FL Paso. The Borderland is (
signed by painting a org B on white
background surrounded by black
top and bottom. At dangerous curves
the black is changed to red. Telephone
poles served for many Of these signs
Phoenix Auto Race.
To advertise the BorderIand route
westward from Ell PasO to Phoenix l
Ariz-, a distance Of SIT miles, the FL
Paso Automobile club has fathered an
automobile race to the Arizona state
fair the past two years. Thirty cars
were entered and the winning car aver
aged over 81 miles an hour this year
This demonstrated to all motorists that
the Borderland is fast
Los Angeles has raced for five years
from the southern California metropo-
lis to Phoenix, and has long ago estab-
.ished the fast condition of the western
end of the Borderland route by the time
made in this so-called desert classical
The FL PasO and Los Angeles and
San Diego automobile clubs exchange
road bulletins and are able to keen
tourists informed of the condition of
he roads ahead. The absence of snow |
n the winter and the sunshine that in
gariably prevails along the route
throughout the winter period makes
travelling through FL Paso to and from
california pleasant at all times Rains
all only in the summer time, and the
Dads, mostly all on high table land,
soon dry off.
The Mountains.
From FL PasO the side trips for auto-
nobilists are innumerable. To Cloud
'roft in the heart of the Sacramento
uncovered mountains, is but one dav
'ver road that is virtually a bouIe- J
ard From Cloudcroft it is possible
o make tours to many splendid fishingl
nd hunting grounds in the Sacrament0i
M White mountains of New Mexico
ma TO- visit the Mescalero-Apache In
lan reservation, through which the