Arizona republican., 1915-07-18
ROAD ID YUMA
 FAIRLY GOOD
PiIolim Who Has Passed Over 1t Sends Directions to Followers That the Hardships of the Jour- ney May be Mitigated

The folloWi ig description of the road between Pho nix and Yuma has been received from Jud 70 J. Ii. Lansston, who had traVeled tNat far on an auto mobile journey to san Diego. The 6t ter is written at the request of several friends for information concerning the highway:
 The roads to Yuma are fine tin some placesl, in other places they are as bad as one would expect in any dry country.
 The roads are good to Arlington. except for short stretch just before reaching Arlington. There they are very much cut up. deep chuck holes and high Centers. machines with Master carhuretors need to take care in such places as those that the fine dust does not get into the carburetor and kill the engine. though we had no trouble of this kind until after passing Agla Caliente The first trouble we had was on a new road about ten or fifteen miles west of Arlington. there the dust and sand was deep and the fine dust interferred with engines equipped with Master carburetorr.
 Between Caliente and Palomas SttiIif tfA pdl Sstilu EulS are tlltOullN- cred but with careful driving can be negotiated.
 The worst roads after leaving Pa lomas are out about 25 miles west from Palomas. l think it was 25.3 miles this side of Palomas where the first real bad sand ruts were encountered.
 At this point it is advisable to keep m the old road. which is so washed out r- Even though the wash does not look good il IS much better than the roads which have been made through the fine silt sand. There they are very badly cut into deep ruts and chuck holes
 Tt Is advisable To keep to the washes at all points where there are signs of a machine having been through the wash recently. We followed this rule even though but one machine had preceded us. | would not advise running in the wash however. where there are not signs of machines having been through
 From Middle wells to Dome the roads are in fair shape and from Castle Dome to Dome there is al fine mesa road un- til the river .e reached and recent work Icy rip raping" has put the river roads into good condition except for a few SsAlu itlS Just htltIe Ecacnln2 the TlNer bottom lands.
 West of Dome. into Yuma the roads have oeen put into fair shape About eight miles west of Dome where the road crosses the levee a new road has been mapped out and by taking thc road that keeps nearest the mesa to the left and following the Riley signs a great deal of very bad road is avoided am informed that stretch of eight miles or road that formerly took two hours to cover on account of the deep sand ruts and chuck holes is thus avoided
 Yuma county is making great efforts to better the road conditions in the bal places particularly and if Mar icopa county would look after a few of the worst spots of the road between Ar -lington and Caliente travel west would be much better The roads are well signed as far as Yuma Care should be taken to load automobiles as lightly as possible and keep. at all times plen- ty of water. Middle Wells are dry but water can be had at Deep Wells and at Castle Dome