Arizona republican., 1920-10-10

how the border city stood in reference Co the proposed race.
 The following is the article as it appeared in the Fl Paso Herald:
 telegraph wires from Fl Paso and Phoenix were kept warm during the last few days with questions from w. E. Ferguson of Phoenix and M. l.. Ma quin of El Paso regarding the coming road race
 sometime ago it was announced the Fl Paso road race for this season would end in san Diego, Cal, and not pass through Phoenix en route. The first telegram received in .El Paso from Mr. Ferguson stated that Phoenix has raised s5.0O00 for the "a -Paso- -Phoe- nix road race this fall and the answer from Mir. Naquin stated that the only race he was interested in was the E1 Paso-S Diego road race, scheduled to be run in February of next year. This answer brought Chas. Staub- CT and Sidney Wolf of Phoenix to this city for a direcC interview with Naquin. According to Mir. Naquin, | Phoenix had put him to "a great deal of inconvenience last year in not pro- 1 curing it's share of the promotion money for the race. When we had all the entries in and the race ready to start. I called on the Phoenix authori- tics for the money said MT. Naquin. | They told me they had nothing to con- | tribute. I have waited n entire year to tell Phoenix something and when the two Phoenix representatives came here I did so.'
 Bob Hhinehart and e. H. Lester are on the pathfinding trip now, laying out the route from Fl Easo to San Diego by way of Las Cruces, Deming, Lordsburg, Douglas, Bisbee, Tucson, Ajo and Yuma.
 The underlying reason for the change of route are two. First, road | racing in the southwest is promoted primarily to open new roads. It has been the desire for many years to have an all winter route from Fl Paso to San Diego. The former racing from El Paso to Phoenix and from Phoenix | to Los Angeles, and while there is a road 10 San Diego, i. is so seldom used that little is known of it.
 Automobile men of Fl Pslso consider that big national road race will ad d- vertise this route throughout the Unit | cd States and afford a well mapped road into San Diego without causing tourists to go via Los Angeles. The second reason is that it takes money and lots of it promote a road race of any size, and the money is obtained ! from the cities and towns through which the race win pass-
 Sometime ago several cities in south ern Arizona let it be Knolgn that they had no contribution for any road race that passed through Phoenix. The req son is political and they say it has to do with an attempt on the part oi ] Phoenix to gerrynander the state SC that a majority of the sub highway commission will be from Maricopa county.
 'MrNaquin saysi it is too late tc change the plans and that the only road race Fl Paso will help to pro- mote this year is between LEI Paso and San Diego by way of Tucson and Ajo.' II Phoenix business men can very plainly read in this article and iron authentic reports from their repre- sentatives who have handled the mat ter. that Fl Paso apparently does no care to deal with Phoenix when i comes to anything; but soliciting busi ness from our wholesalers and re tailers. They evidently prefer to hay, Tucson and Ajo ia the fold to the ex clusion of Phoenix, and from expres sions heard on sll sides zn this cit, since the facts became known, it il very probable that the effect this ac ton of Fl Paso will have on futur business dealings between Phoeni, merchants and Fl Paso jobbers will bl such as will cause rejoicing among Lo II Angeles. Salt Lake and Denver busi ness houses. This of course will appl, to the entire Salt River valley-th most prosperous section agricultural. in Arizona
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