Mohave County miner., 1916-12-16
GOOD ROADS
 ADVOCATE IS
 VISITOR HERE
(FrOm Saturdays Daily Miner)

pathfinder for the National Highway! Association and the worlds champion advocate of good roads, and party arrived in Kingman last evening. They will this morning resume their jour. ney to the coast, travelling by way oi Oatman. MT. Westgard's visit here at this time has to do with his latest task of making motion pictures of the whole United States. Speaking oi roads in northern Arizona over which he passed, MT. Westgard said last night:
 'With the exception of the stretch from Ashfork to Seligman, the road from the Arizona-New Mexico line to Kingman is a high-gear highway. The county supervisors of Yavapai county should certainly improve the road be- tween the points named"
 Thousands of reels of film have been exposed on "scenics" the country over, but hitherto no comprehensive plan of picturing everything worth picturing has been followed. Mir. Westgard, who knows the beauty spots as no other man knows them, believes that he can show Americans things about their own. country of which they scarcely dream.
 The Pathe company, which will dis tribute the films, believes so, too, and so does the Combitone Picture com pany, which is financing the expedi- tion. The pictures are to be entirely different from any hitherto seen be- cause made by the new Combitone process, invented and perfected by F. W. Hochstetter, formerly of the Edison staff, now consulting photo chemist of the American Photo Chem ical company.
 The automobile motion picture tour, which is to extend for more than 25,- 900 miles, and will take more than a year and include every state in the Union, is being made under the aus pices of the National Highways As sociation, of which great organization Mir. Westgard is director of trans continental highways, and with the cooperation of the Interior Depart ment, which has arranged for MT. Westgard to take all the pictures he wants in any and all government reservations, national monuments. national parks and forest reserves.
 Starting October 20 from Trinidad. Colorado, Mir. Westgard piloted his two big Paige-Detroit automobiles southward, and will stay in the warm countries during the winter months. He has not only pointed his lenses at the well known scenic beauties. such as the Garden of the Gods, Grand Canyon, Petrifed Forest, etc., but is filming upon thousands of scenes, in- dustries and natural curiosities that the general travelling public knows lit tie about. Having crossed the con- tinent eleven times in automobiles by every available route and gone north and south from the Gulf and Mexican border to the Canadian line by the same means more times than he can countA MT. Westgard is in possession of unique information regarding roads, views, natural wonders and the like to enable him to find and photograph many scenes never before pictured.
 Two automobiles carry the party of six, consisting of MT. Westgard, his wife and son, cook and an assistant to L. E. Taylor, formerly head cameraman for the Kalem company, who has charge of the actual expos ures. The cars are completly equipped with everything needed for the most exacting tour-a camping outfit, ropes, pulleys, tools, searchlights, barometers, gradometer, etc, not only to make it possible to get to in accessible points but to enable Mir. Westgard to make more of those maps and collections of data about roads, which have been his life work.
 As fast as the half dozen reels it is planned to expose in each state are completed they are sent to New York, where they are being developed and printed, and the final selection made. Only the best, not only from a pie torial but from a photographic stand point, will be selected for the final toning. MT. Hochstetter, who will personally supervise the work, de- mands perfect photography for his toning process.
 This process is both new and novel. flms-the familiar blue or green for alleged moonlight" or the dull red for fire scenes, goes much 1 further. By the peculiar combination L