Nogales international., 1930-03-11
Auto Expedition
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sition of a great road building cam
paign. One of the generals of the
late revolution stated that perma-
nent peace in Mexico depended
more upon future good roads than
upon any other element.
Road building is a declared policy
of President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico
and in the announced policies of
most of the governors of the diff
ferent States.
AS an indication of their hearty
cooperation in this plan, the Auto
mobile Club expedition will be met
at nearly every important town on
the road and escorted on their way
to the next center.
Responses from officials all along
the proposed route have come in
the most gratifying manner.
PROJECT WELCOMED
The idea for this project origi-
mated in the United StateS-in Los
Angeles the import is fully rec
ognized by every country through
which the road will pass. Every
sympathetic cooperation has been
extended to the plan and friendly
hands have been held out to this
exploration expedition by every
country concerned.
With the ultimate idea Of road
down the length of North and South
America in mind, the present ex-
pedition will not attempt to make
it's way farther south than Panama.
Later expeditions, after the tropical
rainy season is over, will map the
highway to Buenos Aires.
The start was made yesterday at
| the Automobile Club of Southern
California. There are five cars
two large touring cars to carry the
personnel and three trucks equip
ped to carry baggage and road
equipment.
1t is recognized that much of the
route will be hard going. Tents
will be carried for camping and
heavy wrecking apparatus to help
the cars through difficult passages.
The following experts compose
the party-all of the Automobile
Club (
E. E. East, chief engineer; G. E.
} McStay, field secretary; D. G.
Rhodes, field engineer; Philip Town.
send Hanna, editor of Touring Top
les, the Automobile Club magazine;
Carlos v. ARIA, special Mexican
representative; B. E. Sandman,
radio operator; j. R. Deeson, tech
nician; Kenneth Keefe, cartograph-
er.
This personnel includes highly
trained map makers, road experts
and highway specialists. Seldom has
a new road had such expert chaper-
oning.
Radio facilities will enable the
expedition to keep in touch with the
outside world at every step of the
journey. A portable sending appar-
atus will give the story of the days
adventure. 1t will be possible for
amateur radio operators to tune in
every night. The sohrt wave length
7 will be announced later; it will be
somewhere under the forty-meter
band. The set is the same as that
carried by the Byrd expedition to
the Antarctic.
There is a hopedfor possibility
that Will Rogers may join the ex-
pedition for a part of it's journey
Mr.. RogerS's accounts of the jour-
ney will not be the sum of what
he has to contribute. He is an ex-
perienced pioneer-a cowman and
trail finder of parts and experience.
His services are sought for reasons
beyond comedy touches and wise
philosophy.
THE ROUTE
The start of the journey will be
from Los Angeles to San Diego
then to Imperial Valley, through
Yuma, Phoenix and Tucson and
thence to Nogales.
From Nogales southwark, the ex-
pedition will be joined for the pc
riod of a day or two by an official
squadron of cars with Mexican and
border officials and prominent busi-
ness men.
From Hermosillo, the capital Of
Sonora, the party will be waved
good-by by the Mexican Governor,
thence to Guaymas, the lovely har-
Dor on the gulf, and so on into the
heart of the Yaqui River country.
This is one of the richest and most
interesting and distinctive OF all the
productive sections in the world.
1t is expected that the driving will
be difficult down through this coun-
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