Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-23
ROAD GUIDE OF HARRY LOCKE
 PUBLISHED
TOUR BOOK GIVES COM PLETE DATA ON ALL ROADS IN SOUTHWEST ; PRESCOTT HIGHWAYS IN MAP AND PICTURE.


 motored over more miles of good, bad and indifferent roads than any man in the country, has just publish ed a tour book of his travels that de- serves more than passing mention. Mir. Locke is field engineer of several good roads and highway associations, 8 work requiring almost constant travel while searching out and map ping the most feasible route in Flor ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California.
 "Locke's Good Roads Maps of Local and Transcontinental Automo- bile Routes" is the title of the new edition which contains detailed maps and touring information of thousands of miles of roadway. So clear and plain has this data been arranged that strangers need ask no question re- garding the right roads to use or where supplies, service and accommo dations can be found. Altogether there are nearly 800 pictures accom- panying the maps, entire pages being devoted to illustrations of scenic at fractions and various types of road construction. The unusual feature is that this fund of information is con tained in a pocket size book of 2lc pages.
 Among the prominent highways dealt with are: Old Spanish Trail National old Trails. Borderland Route, Fl Camino Real, Apache Trail, Parker Cutoff, Trail to the Sunset, Fort Worth-El Paso Highway, Colo rado to Gulf, Meridian Highway, Ok lahoma, Texas and Gulf, Jefferson Highway, Dixie Highway. Dixie Over land Route, Forrest Highway, South crn National Highway, Ocean to Ocean Highway.
 The greatest variety of interesting travel and diversity of entertainment is thus offered to lure the automobilist on vacation journeys. For instance, one may choose the trip to the White mountains in Arizona, at an elevation of o,4O0 feet, or the Imperial valley oi California which IS below the sea level; the Atlantic coast Of Florida, to Palm Beach and Miami, or the route to Los Angeles along the shores of the Pacific; the concrete highways travcrsing the orange bell of California, or the natural roads through the Indian Villages of Ari- zona: the summit of the Sacramento mountains at Cloudcroft, x. M., or the vast expanses Of open prairies m Texas: the Elephant Butte dam which has created lake 42 miles long on the Rio Grande river, or the Roosc- welt dam which backs up the waters of Salt and Tonto rivers for 5 miles; the Gulf of Mexico may be skirted from Tampa, Florida, through Mobile, Alabama. and New Orleans to Gal weston, Texas, or in Louisiana the Mississippi and Red rivers can be fol- lowed on roads along the lcvees be tween Shreveport and New Orleans; even the trail the Arizona Good Roads Association route car blazed to the very bottom of the Grand Canyon is illustrated.
 Chambers of commerce and auto mobile clubs in many localities art assisting in the distribution of this Tour Guide realizing that the result will be an increased travel over the auto roads of the South and South west
 New maps of the roads into Pres colt, together with pictures taken in this vicinity are features of the book. COL. A. O. ERODE MAY