Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-31
AT LAST LOS ANGELES HAS RECOGNIZED THE
 BORDERLAND ROUTE


 by way of San Diego, but the people of Los Angeles have just emerg- ed from a trance and found that San Diego, the hustling sea port city oi southern California has slipped one over 'em" to the Queens taste, and the 'rEp.taph". deems the ! special article written for the Los Angeles Times by it's special representative, that clever writer, Harry Carr, of such ir portance that it will reprod uce in chapters the best parts of Mir. Cars article nothing could better prove that Los Angeles made big blunder when she turned down the Borderiand route for for tine ''icicie' toboggin oi northern Arizona. in her frantic endeavor to shut San Diego out oi the ocean to ocean highway. Here follows Asleep at the switch-is an accurate description of the position of Los An geles business men in relation to the ,sanscontinental highway.
 This project. which has been talked of since the days of Abraham Lincoln, is actually approaching realization. The business men of San Diego have seen the wonderful opportunities in voIved and have grabbed the chance Los Angeles. after creating the idea. gracefully sank into siumbef alongside the job. Tine resul, is that Los Angeles has a fine chance of seeing the Ocean. o-Ocean BorderIand route sweep grace fully dowu 10 San Diego. leaving this city out in the cold If the present highway plans are allowed 10 reach ma turjty it will be necessary for every traveller on the transcontinental turn pike to go to San Diego before coming to Los Angeles.
 l (Cont;nued from yesterdays issue) "Tbe much boosted direct road from l New York to Los Angetes." upon which so much effort has been spent. will be- come a good joke. The direct road to Los Angeles will come here by wide circuit through San Diego.
 The Hiram Johnson administration has helped out San Diego to the extent of appropriating funds for state high way over the San Diego route. | THE ONLY WAY
 Without working any injury upon San Diego. there remains plan by which Los Angeles can crawl back onto the Ooean-to-O Ocean highway map Il the state legislature can be induced to build a road through Mammoth Wasf the transcontinental highway may stil be switched back to Los Angeles. Pc
 titions are now in circulation looking to this end. Here is the whole situa
 tion:
 "The Ocean-to-O Ocean Highway en
 ters California by way of Yuma. From
 Yuma there are two desert roads, eithe
 of which the traffic might follow. On' cuts across Imperial valley through th' sands hills to Holtyllle and Ei Centr' and so on to San Diego. The othe road goes north through the Mammotl Wash to Brawiey and Calipatria ant , thence to Los Angeles.
 "The route agreed upon by tn Ocean-to- Ocean Highway association followed the Mammoth Wash-to-L Lo
 Angeles route, and bill is now in th 7 legislature, introduced by Assembly map Alvey of Riverside. to make it tn s road,
 Tn order to squash this route, tn
 San Diego people are actually haulin materially with which to complete tn
 sand hills route at their own expense.
 No one can predict what futur events and what future prosperity ma
 depend upon this race between the roa
 builders.
 V All routes involved have just bee d traversed for the Times by Harris Han . shue and Harvey Herrick. the forme
 Pboenix race drivers, who are probabi