UCSD Library Handeville Department of Special Collections RECORD OF MATERIALS REMOVED FROM THIS FILE • TUCSON, ARIZONA , The materials described below have been removed from this file ~ARD op Dn,&CTOR• and placed in a different file in this K. &.. HART. ,..... l collection. 0. M. IUTLU.Jat y, PNI. 8ARAIIOC. MALTYIOMO H. A. DRACHMAN. U Y. flret J. L 'WOODI. T....uttr MEDICAL A. DC. o. I. lkfiHIRIOif, IMrttetJ PU8UC UTIUTIU Collection I ~ 0 r ~~"t-<1-#-(;- ,:.:; e' - H s :s J> I 0.1.11011 Oflbl •• AIIOC. L.C..IAIIU AIIOCIATID IWIU fl,tt.LUOAI 8UILDERI QCHA._ Box I HICOMITT MOTOR TJIW)U AII DCo fi,I.HOWIU COUIITY F'AMI 8UREAU R.RAIIfi-N R&TAIL IIERCHAJITI' AllOt'. Folder__ ~'-1~-----­ W.O. HODGION Allat. AIIOC. CW UICII•" H8 ILIAI HID RICK .raq,. MF'R&. WKLM. AAOC. J.A.DUIIUATH Description of DR. W, Y, WHITIIIORE Oot. 14, 1921. materials: 11 "- L Q..c r<... f'«J F= ..s P! IJ t.J & !f J c c= ttl 1 GJI d , F . /1e-:: TA y ur. D. C. Rhodes, Field Engineer, Automobile Club of So. Calif., 1344 s. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, Calif • . Dear Sir: · • VIe are ·in receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst., enclosing a oopy of a letter received by you from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors refusing your Club permission to erect signa in Maricopa County. This whole proposition was placed before the Board of Directors of the Southwest Bankhead Highway Association at a meeting here on Oct. 13th. Their Secretary will no doubt inform you of the action taken by that Ass ociation and we believe that the • whole matter will soon be straightened out to the interests of all parties concerned. We believe the Sou.th\vestern Bnn .~­ Removed to: __~''~ ~~~~7~~~~~c~C:~A~· head Highway J\ssociation will hnndle the ma.tter entirely ~~~x~/~?~1 ~~-- ~~~o~z~J~)______________ ___ satisfactorily and we are, for the time being, awaiting the outcome. Thanking you for your kind letter, we beg to remain Yours very truly, • TUCSON CHAlffiER OF COHl.! r~ RCE ~- ::;> Processor: C trll' O.J-J,,; we;, J \.H. ~;d~ Acting Secretary. AHO/lb • • • • O.A . MA T\H:L,.cau:acMT MISS BUENA Ol..OER.cc~tcAt ' , • • DIRII:CTORS Dt..,CCTCIAa OIACCTOita ocCo~t • M , BAN N 1:: \.l. c.~..CCA F' . M . ANNC L!, C .H.&.I:aTEI'f SPENCER OARaVaNIAE O.A . A~ DJoCNCI:A DA .. Dtr~ O,A,MAATIN A .,-.F"COAN W . O . ADC A . F'. F"COAN W .O.AOE U .NA 01 L.DCR III>CIATCA THCOC DUII'NA OILOI:A POATCA THCDC: C,M,HAAVEY 0 . C , VOUNO DLOOO C.M. HAAVCY O . C . VOUNODLOOO C...AHA~ C . . AHA~ I ( • And Hiahway D~rtnt And ltiahway Department Chamber oF Commerce Chamber of Cnmmcrc.c October 14, 1921. - 2 .. Ur. D. C. Rhoden. October 14, 1921. D. C. Rhodes, Field E · ~nr The Automobile Club of SouthPrn California, Los .Ar.,eeles, California. t~t he wa :.ted to return to El Paso t.1at way, and knew nothing of ti1e road. He says your Travel Bureau Dear friend Rhodes: • advised strongly acainst ~ttrntn to go by ~~ of Ajo, ancl told him the Blythe-:Shrenberg road to :Phoenix ! a.r nclon~;/ article in ·:oday's Herald tcllinD was by far the bent wa.y 2ack to El Paso. He took the ; of our !neeting a.t Tucson yesterday. I arn sorry that you Blythe road back und s:tys it '•:as far worse t~n the could r:ot have f. een there, ~or I think ,.,c would nave pro- Aj o road. Jir. Ru..ncl drives a {;rea t d~tl a.nd declares fitted by having you present. tha Ajo road today by far the best road fron El Fnso "o Los Angelea . He ·las made the trip no less tha.n fifty times in the last ~ .1."' • You will see tha.t we g.re t;oinG to fight :Phoe:ix to ten years t·la.t I know of, and. is a ""lnlsh, ani I hope that you ·..nd your Club will join us gcniune rand llug. He is the president of the El Paso in signi11.g the road ·.vest fror.1 ~con throuGh Aj o. Even if Ritulithic co~n ~ 1 c has put down ~ot of the street ~r copa. county does come i1 , tile Tucson people Ym.nt to siGn :pQ.ving in Arizon;t, ·new I.:exico and El Paso ~~. nd knows roads. "ae Aj o/oad anyhow, .u'.d I feel sure that you vd 11 do it for them, . tis is just a.other feeder for C~lor1rl. From I believe that if your club is giYing this sort of all I ~old hear .it ~ bett er road to travel westward infor1nation it is just nor~~ton. ~ll your people throuatl Aj o to Ywna t~ ! it is to go by •·w.y of Phoeni:A to not to place too much confidence in the :lope they t;et froL Yuma. They tell r_e in Tucson that it is u.n eao·r one G"'V' Phoenix on roads, ~ nd to try to Bet it ~ro all oources . trip 'b etween Tucson and Yuoa by \',-ay of Aj o, but i 3 a t;~ .. day trip by ~ way of Phoenix. I have !:O bri cf to offer for the Aj o road ron~.ll • as I know nothing a1)out it, 1:t:t I thin'· that all roads ought ~ think in Tucson t ~ t your club is nrejudi ced to ha.ve a SliUc\.rc deal, and I k .tH)\7 t'1 t your club ~t!.t to nt.t~ Yuma-Ajo-Tucson road ~ c it is-liable to give them a squnre deal . send tour1.ats to San Diego first . I told ther.l I did not believe that, and that I thought o/t.;~ ~ broad I winh :,rou ,. ould \'.Ti te r.1c n letter, r have l.:r. enough to realize that as long as you could Get the tour- Ui tchcll to do so, tlll~ r.1e sorr.ethinG a. ··out the club's !sts into Southern California you would r~l get t~ efforts to o.scertair1 road conditions ~ r.d its im:partiality ... o Los Angeles anyway. Besides t 1 is, I believe you have in routing tourists. I will prirtt it ard I think it \-:i 11 a road under way now that will strike the Holtville-San d o r.4Uch to dissipilte t he idea in parts of Ar~on t " ;\.t you Diego road south of the Salton Sea ~r run up to Los n.re 1ot 11 shoctinr, n . -~t" . A ..geles . l:lc:'-.~c l£tt r r- l:c r fror.& you, either confidentially, One of our El Paso club members drove tro~~ to or otherwise, if your. club will cR.rry out its s i ('l:inrr pro- Los A: geles last ,·,•eek by w, ty of Aj o a r rl Yuma o.. rll he says r--.~ for us westv;Q.rd from Tucoon throuch Aj o to Ywtla., if just to find out what your people wouid say, 'he asked ~t • Phoenix c.r~d Ross t Arizona Automobile club con ~ .uc Jo :rour club a.bout the road he had juat passed over, contencli·ng r cfus e to 1 et :.-ou nicn ·.hrouu,h ~ · r i copn County. You "'~1 rest n.s:-;urcd • !::.z. t who. teYer you tt•ll ne con- ficlcnti;l.lly will be o t ·ictly confic!entiHl, anu if :_;ou h:J.YC n.ny aucc;estions to offer t:o r::e oo t l.at I can, nppure .tly on MISS DUeNA DE~ cc.'A" C • M , HARVEY, Tfl CAaUfllr:fl ... • Other Communities Along Southern Route Tire Of OIAII:CTOIIIIa DI,.II:C""r'O_.. Maricopa Attitude. ~ . .AC. C . H . LCSTitR SPCNCCR OAR•v•tUAC 0 . A , fo'l.t.ATIN A . J". P"II:OAN W .O . AOI:. I ~JO IIUCNA OILDCR POATCA' TH OC ROAD IS NO\V C . N , HAAVI:Y' 0 . c; .VOUNODLDOD JN GOOD Sl-lAPE C . V , LATHAN /;L ~) If, ~'A ', ~ '..:- • I Fight May Be Made To T akc Bankl1cad Higlnv.ty And Hichway D~rtnt F roJn Phoenix nlircly. Chamber Commerce or fl7 .-;. -\ , '' \ llTI '\'. .. t:' ,:, ~:. ,\rl:.. , ,...,, li-t#h•tf2hh T:lh•l !\l:trl '';' ruuntJ' ttiU prrmlt u, ...\ lt•trntl1oll• rhJh or Sou h•·rn Cn II '••rn I.a tfl ~t. Ul' •I • nft :al,r .; tlu'l - 3 - • 31nrlt:'ll .... cour:tr r oa•ts forrnl ng tbe ll.:1nkhf'ftcl hh:h"·:ty nt aouth..,rn Arl• 'l'lll:t or t h,. to n~t AlonJt thft hhfh" :IT l!r. D. c. odes. October 1921. t~ Y.t 1'":1 n ,, \·um!l. "'Ill Rl~n :a ron•l 14 , w ~ ttorn TuC"sun , J brou•h .AJo to "Lureu. :anol 1~t P!t04"':11x a:1d ~llrl· . .:•.'}:• ',·uu:uY•. \I _tt tlJ .. CJn_ of ttc~r.cl1 • •• • • • • • • 'fhi:J ' .:1:1 fha tr~o:r 4rcJ3fon t:er.-, !•e:.: .. rc!:Oi :t!trr:roon ot th"' en. r .... , f' o! th u tt: ~t rn ~ k- my own initi tive, t;.ke g,ny action t h at will help our lv·.•tl ll!r''" .JY zu. udO&Uon. ~1tt'd to- sigf\.ing ror~ I will be glnd to hca.r from J:"ttl .. r CN· t!u• •1'rc!:ll PUt'lJO e ot tak- you.