Arizona republican., 1919-10-28
COMES TO BOOST. HUE X-COAST
 PAVED HIGHWAY
Representatives Of Calf ornia Commission And Dix Highway Conf e r With Arizona Highway Officials

To assure the Arizona people of their hearty cooperation in interstate highway building, and more particu- larly to further the linking up of Phoenix and Arizona with Southern California and the Pacific coast, a party of representatives of the Cali fornia state highway commission, the Dixie Highway association and other good roads enthusiasts arrived in Phoenix Sunday night for a confer ence with Arizona highway engineers, commissioners and road builders.
 The party was composed of Colonel Ed Fletcher of San Diego, president of the Dixie Highway association; N. D. Darlington of Los Angeles, president of the California highway commis- sion; George c. Mansfield of Oroville, California; c. A. Whitmore of Visalia, California, and A. H. Nelson of San Diego. With them were Mrs. Fletcher Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. Ala Chickering and Mrs. Virginia De Framery.
 The party came by the way of Yuma and Tucson, at both of which places stops were made and conferences held with highway officials.
 Are Rendered Luncheon
 
 Zona received a decided boost at a luncheon rendered the visiting Cali fornians by the Arizona Good Roads association at the Arizona club yes. terday noon.
 In welcoming the party on behalf of the Arizona Good Roads association Dwight B. Heard, who presided, sound ed the keynote when he said: ffNha Nricif nf done so much for the roads of Cali. fornia will stimulate the movement ir this state. Arizona is only beginnins It's road program. Constructive plan: have already been outlined and activ, development may be expected in tn, | very near future"
 Governor Campbell assured the wis 1 itors that the people of this state wer, Just as anxious for highway system that would bring this state into close touch with California as the wester1 neighbors seem to be.
 | Governor Makes Address
 The people of Arizona are gettinl more enthusiastic over a good road building program every day and the, have come to fully realize the impor tance of highways that will attrac road traffic to this state," he said.
 The highway experts from CaIifor mia made the stop in Phoenix while O. a trip inspecting the proposed pave route from Fl Paso to San Francisco That such highway will be a reaIit in the near future was strongly born out by N. B. Darlington, chairman q the California highway commission who said:
 California is very much in earnes about this route, and expects to 500 complete a paved roadway from Sa Dlego to Yuma. It is to be hoped Arj zona will proceed as fast as possibl m constructing such a roadway meet ours at the state line" He afIde tnat California had already carried S2o0,OOOOOO bond issue for improvin It's highways, which includes the conn " issues, and will probably increas this amount in the near future
 Col. Ed Fletcher, who has long bee identified as an advocate of 200 roads, urged Phoenix to regard Sa Dlego as its deep water port and cor struct roadways which will bring fl TWO cities into closer communicatioi Promises Cooperation
 In reply to the visiting commission CTS, Thomas Maddock, state enginet ? of Arizona, said this state was alread , working on a number of links whic would bring Arizona within easy at cess of transcontinental highways, ar 9 that with the cooperation of the cour f ties, it would not be long until sever g practical roads had spanned the sta . and linked it up with neighborir