Tombstone epitaph., 1920-03-14
WHAT'LL WE DO WITH OUR PRETTY MAPS
 AND BLUE PRINTS"

The Daily Silver Belt of Miami says the Daily Prospector s mistaken regarding the recent article in the Silver Belt telling the truth about the failure of the Apache Trail a link to the crosscontnent highway. which issued along with long and broad series of "Whys' concerning the cause of Globe and Miami and the Apache Arail losing out i'll the Bankhead highway routing which occurred recently in Birmingham. Ala.
 The Silver Belt claims there tilt between Miami and Globe the matter
 Probably not. but if mistaken in asserting that the truth had been told by the Silver Belt during tilt between the two cities to which had been sponsble for the loss, then Globe and Miami have of delivering Sisterly bOquets all their very
 The Silver Belt claimed that it chose the course of silence in the hope that the inevitable might happen and that the mpractcabe Apache Trae might be chosen by the Bankiead directors. and avowed that it did for the sole purpose of avoiding the wrath of Globe and the probability of the citizens of that saying If you had only kept your mouth shut. etc. etc."
 But the Silver Belts of silence. and hoping against hope. coupled with the bombast of Globe failed to deceive the Bankhead directors. They chose the best route. through southern Arizona
 Baffled in their shaky hopes of accidental lection of the Apache Trail. Globe and Miami urged by the Silver Belt to join hands in pushing the completion of the Globe Superior route. which upon completion. will according to the Silver Belt leave with lot of pretty auto maps and blue prints hands
 The Silver Belt says:
 The cold hard truth is that the powerful in fluences of the big automobile associations and tomobile manufacturers the big money of all kinds the big appropriations. national well as state. being maSsed on the Borderand route through Tue Not to recognize this fact is to ostricke hide ones head in the sand. As for the Apache Trail why not frankly recognize the truth of the fact that while it should be kept up a ''show place" that the United States will never approve the expenditure of money for roads possessing grades like those at Fish Creek Hill, and then bend every enegry to- wards the rushing of work on the Superior High way! Once that highway is constructed Tombstone Prospector no Tombstone PlospcctOr the tip
 will 20 forth to every ocean-toocean automobile tour
 st that the shortest and best route is not via the Tombstone Tucson section but via the Globe eSupcror section. And if We have ''the goods i'll the shape of the real thing in the shortest and best highway it. self we afford to let the people along the Tomb stonc-T Tucson Borderland keep their pretty auto maps and blue prints. For the big auto traffic will come this way anyhow
 Regardless. however, of the far-rcaching prophecy of the Silver Belt that will find ourselves stocked with pretty maps and blue prints Globe Su perior Globe Superior highway. Miami Miami Globe Globe Silver Belt Silver Belt, Pros pector Prospector when the tls,ls-contincnta tourist desires the best and the scenic and the only all ycarrolnd route they will take the Bankhcad through southern Arizona.