Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-14
AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF
 ARIZONA GROWING

PHOENlX, Oct. 4E"GoOd morn ing, MT. Hotel Keeper, are you hotel member of the Automobile Club of Arizona ?"
 This is the question which auto owners are beginning to ask when they step up to the desk, and on the answer to it will depend largely how much of a patronage the hotel keeper will enjoy from auto club members in the future.
 The progressive landlord will smil ingly point to brass plate fastened to neat mahogany bulletin board on the wall, and reply, "We sure are. You'll find the latest road bulletin on the bulletin board, and we have all kinds of maps and folders here at the desk"
 The hotel membership plan is just another little act-of-kindness stunt which the Automobile Club of Arizona is putting across for the benefit of it's members. A hotel membership in the club means that the man or concern that has taken it out is pledged 70 give a square deal to the auto-travel- ing public. The brass plate is the official guarantee of the club to the hotels guests that he will be treated with all fairness and consideration. If the pledge is any way violated the membership is cancelled and down comes the plate.
 Most of the hotel men are alive to the fact that with auto travel lncreas- ing by leaps and bounds it pays to give first consideration to auto tour ists, and that the bulk of the future business will come from this class. This being the case they are ready and willing to enter into the plan of cooperation by becoming a hotel member, realizing that it will be a boost for their business and at the same time a boost for good roads and an organization which is doing more to encourage the use of the highways than any other agency in the state. In an endeavor to secure at least one hotel-member in each of the larger cities of the state a special rate has been made by the club for the first 30 memberships. These will be sold for $25, which is the amount of the regu- lar annual dues. After the first 30 have been signed up, an additional en- trance fee of $1O will be charged. The plan is similar to that which is working out successfully among dealer-members. Appropriate signs in- Hcating the place of business of such members are seen more and more ire quently throughout the state, and tue plan is working to the mutual advan tage of the dealer-members and the auto owners.
 The regular membership of the club is increasing steadily day by day and week by week, with the prospect that by the first of the year the Automo- bile Club of Arizona will be one of the strongest organizations of its kind in the country.
 In addition to the regular road signs which the club is now having posted, temporary signs have been printed and will be used to designate detours where road construction Is in prog ress. These temporary signs are being sent out to the clubs representatives for distribution at points needed.
 State headquarters is collecting a vast amount of travel information concerning routes both inside and out side the state. The latest in this line conSictc of two larpe mans showing the airways of the United States and of the world.
 "We are not advised as to whether any of our members are contemplat- ing a little trip to the Orient by air. said President s. J. Ross the other day, "but if they are, we are prepared to show them the safest and most d. rect route. No one can say that the club is not up to date in the character of the travel information it is able to supply, whether one travels by auto'