Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-25
.LORDSBURG HOUSED BY BISBEE MOTORCADE
 TO ROAD BUILDING
Recognition of the Rights of Borderland Route Cities of Arizona is Forced by Activ- ities of Latter.


 One direct and immediate result of the Southern Arizona Automobile ex- cuIsion to Deming and Fl Paso has been the awakening of Lordsburg and it's people from the lethargy as to road improvement for the Borderland Route that has held them for several years past. It is true that they are still try ing to dodge the main issue and that 1 the improvement undertaken will lead not only to the Borderland but to the route across north Cochise County and to Globe and Clifton as well, but Ia recognition of the rights of this sec ton of Arizona has been forced.
 Changed sentiment and excited inter est in road betterment are shown from ! the following article which appeared | in the last issue of the Lordsburg Lib eral:
 Nearly sixty men are at work on the new Borderland and Sunset na- tional highways going west from Lordshurg and all the road working equipment of Grant county is being used to expedite the construction. A large number of county prisoners ar rived here Saturday and camp has been established on the road. County Engineer F. L. Cox, E. L. Pack and H. L. Walton will have charge of the camp together with several guards. Instead of following the old Border land Route through the Anfmas Val ley the road now being worked goes west from this city into Steins and then follows the mountain ranges to Rodeo via Granite Gap and on into Rodeo, thence to Douglas and Bisbee, with a cutoff a short distance east of Steins. This road will doubtless be- come the most travelled of any routes to the Pacific Coast as it not only leads over the Borderland Route to Rodeo and Douglas but by following directly west it leads over the Sunset route through San Simon. Bowie and Will cox on into Tucson.
 Following the completion of this work the road builders will rconstruct the Southern National Highway from Lordsburg to the Arizona line on the Duncan road.
 Try to Cut off sorderIand.
 An effort is being made by Douglas and Bisbee to cut off the Borderland route near Separ and follow the road to Hachita, thence along the E. P. & 5. w. tracks into Rodeo, eliminating Lordsburg from the route. Sign posts have been erected at Rodeo and the junction point below Separ and motor ists are being advised to go this route.
 On Monday night a meeting of the Lordsburg business men was held at the office of c. w. Marsalis, at which time road matters were discussed and a resolution passed to organize a motor party to consult with the commercial clubs of Deming and Fl Paso in an effort to retard the action of the south ern Arizona towns to turn off the traf fic before reaching Lordsburg."
 Bisbee, Tucson, Tombstone and 1, Douglas have a lever to pry Lordsburg l into position in the new route that was | traversed by the excursionists to and | from Deming and Fl Paso. On that trip the route was logged and mapped | and 10000 strip maps are to be print | ed from the maps that were drawn by | the Bisbee party. This map and the log. shows that there is not over half | mile of really rough road and that | half mile can be travelled in five min utes or less. It is from , 1-2 to 6 | miles from the cut off from the old | Borderland route that led to Lordsburg |
 The Malapais country that Lords burg people said was impossible and | which was all but an impossibility. | has been made into a really good road | over which cars can travel along at 25 to 30 miles per hour. Great masses of volcanic rock have been pushed a. way and that stretch of road now has | no terrors for the motorists. Even | when Lordsburg and Grant County | complete the road on which work has been commenced, the route via Hachi- ta will be miles shorter and materially | faster than the new road. Lordsburg | will have to cease seeking to divert | traffic from the Borderland and tour i ists will be furnished with maps and confronted by signs that show the say ing in time and distance that can be made by the road along the line of the Fl Paso 6 Southwestern railway.