Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-04-12
SUFFER- TO BOOST.
bORDERLAND ROUTE.
AT ROAD MEETING.
Cochise County Highway En-
thusiast Leaves for Little
Rock to Secure Bankhead
Military Pike for District.

Judge Fred Suffer. of this city and
district, good roads booster and sports
man, left the Warren district last
night ell route to Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, by way of Texarkana, Texas,
where he will assist delegates from
other Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
cities in securing the Bankhead ma
/ tiona. highway for the Borderland
route. He will be absent from this
! city Tor the next ten or twelve days.
Judge Suffer is well armed with ma
| terials with which to convince. the
directors of the Bankhead Highway
| ASSOCIATION that this, district is entitled
! TO representation on their national
/ roadway. He carries complete maps
/ ana plats of the roads of this county,
I showing the location of the rich min
/ ing and commercial centers, the mill
I tary posts at Douglas, Naco, Hereford.
Fort Buachuca and other points, and
similar points of vital interest and i'm.
portarce
Data on the new S1,0O0,000 roa1
bord issue of this county and the
plans for the spending of this sum
are also among the possessions of Mr..
Suffer. This data will be reinforced
by photographs and views of the high
way AZ ii runs through this district.
The photographs were made and fGrE-
ished iOr the express purpose ~ the
Dix studios. Judge Suffer will do the
speaking for this section of the high
way. and will present the arguments
for the Warren district Douglas and
Tombstone.
John A. Boyle, representing Douglas,
Harry Welch, secretary of the Phoe-
nix Chamber of Commerce, and War
rem Macarthur, president OF the Phoe-
nix Automobile association; Warren
Patterson, chairman of Maricopa board
of supervisors; J. w. Estill, chairman
of the Pima county board of supervis-
ors: o. c. Parker, mayor of Tucson,
and T X. Richey of Tucson; J. G.
Heating of Florence, representing Pi-
nal county and w. A. McSparon. re-
presenting Tombstone have preceded
Judge Suffer from the state.
E. X. Pirtle, the other Douglas rep
resentative, will join Mr.. Boyle at Lit
tie Rock.
The Arizona delegation members
will go direct from here TO Texarkana,
at which place they will arrive Friday
night ct IL o'clock At Texarkana A
meeting of the Arizona and Texas dele
gates will be held, the purpose of
which will be to lay plans for united
campaign at Little Rock convention
to have that body designate the south
ern route for the Bankhead national
highway. They will leave Texarkana
next Saturday, arriving at Little Rock
Sunday to be in readiness for the
opening of the meeting next Monday.
a hot fight is expected to develop
at Little Rock over the routing of the
highway. Oklahoma and New Mexico
vii. use every influence available to
have the road traverse those two
states instead of through Texas and
southern Arizona. II is their determi-
nation 10 have the highway go directly
west from Memphis, the farthest point
west where its course has been de
cided upon. run through most OF Okla
homa. cut across the lower Panhandle.
thence into New Mexico by way OF AL
buqUerque and through northern Ari-
iona on the line of the Old Trails
route. " hich follows the Santa Fe rail-
road One of the arguments against
this will be that it cannot be consid-
cred an aIl-year route, as the winters
in that section are too severe to per
nit automobile travel in the cold
months. Another will be the fact that
there is in southern Arizona, either al
ready built or in contemplation, one ri
the best systems Of highways in the
west.
It is believed that the Borderland
route will be selected from FL Paso
west. but it will not be done without a
hard fight Cochise county and the
Warren district are vitality interested
in the proceedings of the convention
for tie Bankhead highway will mean
more to this community than any 9TH
er project under consideration at this
time