Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-25
AN OPPORTUNITY.
Some Points for Augusta 10
Carefully Consider.
The City's Favorable Situation as a
RadiaI Point.
Some Suggestions to Increase Our
Summer Travel Business.

short time ago Texas slumbered
ana slept in blissful ignorance of the
wonderful possibilities of the unde-
veloped wealth that lay dormant in
her oil fields. Today capital and men
are eagerly seeking the privilege of be-
coming partakers of this new pros
Derity Names natural resources are
largely in the picturesque scenery of
her seashore. inland lakes and her
salubrious summer climate. In many
sections of the State, capital has large
iy sought investment in developing
and carrying forward enterprises
whose only claims are based on the
favorable locations for a summer re-
sort. What other branch OF business
is there where capital has so largely
sought investment and been so uni
Versally successful? Unless there had
! been enterprisng and far seeing pro-
moters of these different prominent
summer resorts where would be
Names Bar HarbCr, Poland Springs.
Squirrel and other thickly populated
Islands Of Our sea coast? And where
the multitude of other summer resorts
that have studded our coast and inland
waters with pretty and artistic sum-
mer homes, each one of which has
added TO the States wealth and taxa
bic property beside calling into its
borders an increasingly large and de
sirahie summer population who are as
J a rule lavish with their money?
once more study the map and con-
! slider Augusta's favorable position as a
radial point for this remarkable sys-
| tern of lakes. Nowhere i'll our State
which stands pre-eminent in the extent
and variety of it's scenic charms ha.;
| Nature been more lavish of her gifts.
a year or so ago when Mr.. D. G. Rob-
inson of Boston issued his Cobbossee-
contee Pilot. beautifully printed
pamphlet designed to make easy the
navigation of these waters, it was
revelation. even to those who We're
more or less familiar with the
perennial charms OF this section OF our
| State. Nowhere in oil New England
can there be found locality which
affords SO many and so varied induce
ments for summer visitors. Oppor-
tunities are specially favorable here for
the enjoyment of every variety of va
cation recreation under the most de-
| lightful conditions. We have only to
let the world know something of these
attractions to bring here Il flood OF
| summer visitors. AT the present time
the man who would advertise the
| beauties of this section has nothing i'll
| the way of literature with which to do
it. This condition should not be per-
mitted to exist.
Our opportunity, with the completion
| of the Winthrop and Augusta Electric
| road, will nave arrived most emphati-
cally for promoting and developing our
natural advantages. Shall we issue 4
publication that Will be worthy Of our
position. one that will not only ad-
vertise and make known Aususta's adj
vantages as q summer resort, but also
| those OF sister cities and the beautiful
Cobbosseecontee and Maranacook lakes
that will by July all be connected by
| trolley lines? Such publication in or
der to promote successfully an enter>
| prise of this Chara cter should cost
money. If results are attained it
cannot be q cheap affair. 1t should be
on nice paper, artistically and fully il
lustrated with half-tone views of lake
scenery that would tend to captivate
the readers and inspire in them de-
I
the delights of lake and woods, and
countryside there depicted. Such a
publication should have an immense
circulation at home and abroad-a cir
culation carefully placed with a view
to obtaining practical results. 1t
should be issued early, so this sum-
mer's visitors can carry it away with
| them tn their homes as a beautiful
r.,I -,
What an influence this would have in
filing up our hotels and boarding
houses for another season, also in en-
couraging the building Of summer cot
tages on the shores of these lovely
lakes Would it not, too, hasten the
day when the electric road to Rock
land will be completed, as well as to
Waterville via. the Belgrade lakes and
Oakland?
The Journal is ready to do its part
and bear its proportional share Of the
expense in issuing such a publication.
If others feel a zeal and enthusiasm
in occupying and commencing to take
possession of our natural inheritance
by making known to the world our
grand possibilities, as the center of
wonderful lake system, it will be done
and a first step will be taken in the
right direction. The Journals repre-
sentative will in the near future take
occasion to call upon interested parties
and explain more fully the details of
the plan. In the meantime it VIII be
encourag aging if those who favor such
plan will write us giving their suS-
gestions regarding it.
Lung Kuro quickly cures coughs ind colds.
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