The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-26
MAKE RAILROADS
BOOST The CITY
E. G.. POTTER RETURNS FROM
WEST WITH VALUABLE IDEAS.
Points to Manner in Which Roads Load
Tourists with Boosts for California
and Urges that Minneapolis Demand
Similar Assistance-Finds Southern
California Rents a Holdup.

E. G. Potter, baseball 1nagnate, at
least for this season, and one of the
businest and best Minneapolis boosters
in the business, returned from an ex-
tensive California and western trip to-
day, and in spite of the brand of wealth
er found on tap, announces that '' Min
neapolis is there and "good enough
for anybody .-.
= 50 Business certainly is booming on
the coast said the senator, "and
there is not a business man there who
is not making all the hay he can while
the sun is shining. They never over
look bets there any more than we do
here. The prices they are getting for
their real estate along the southern
California coast are something, awful
So are the rents.
Gin talking with real estate and
business men | asked them what basis
they had for the enormous values they
place on their real estate and other
property, and if they used a compari-
son of values with other cities. They
frankly admitted that they no compari-
son or basis other than the rents that
the property can be made to produce.
Anybody who has been there knows
what rent conditions are in southern
California. 1t like hiring cab in
New York city-it' s cheaper to buy
In February or March it, is almost i'm
possible to secure good accommodations
at any price unless reservations have
been made. ~
lBooms Everywhere.
"Conditions are all the same. Every
place [ visited, and I made them all
from Coronado Beach to San Francisco
all the Monies, Dels, and Santas- is
enjoying a boom. There is one thing
tho that many lose sight of, even those
who are there, and that is that the
southern California coast is enjoying
the cream Of the prosperity that is gen
eral all over the country. They have
their pick on free money from every
; part of the United States. A fnancia
! crisis tho, such as we had ten or twelve
years ago, would give them serious set
back. AS soon as times get hard the
| flood of outside money and tourists i!
cut off, and values will surely tumble
and tumble long way.
"That country has d beautiful eli
mate when ours is generally the worst
but for all that IN for Minneapolis
Their tourist business now lasts the en-
tire year. In the winter they get thu
people from the north and east and il
! the summer they get the southerner
who want to escape the dry heat of tn
south and enjoy the ocean.
Fright here in Minneapolis, and al
about us we have as great an oppor
tunity for creating TN asset of equa
value AS far as natural condition
are concerned We are in it with then
all. The railroads should be brough
into line to do the Advertising for. II
that they do. for, California. As2seol
as. one leaves Minneapolis he is f1oode,
with folders printed by railroads extol]
ing California resorts. Some iudiciou
advertising Of similar sort telling O
Minneapolis, Minnetonka, and the othe
Minnesota resorts would bring business
if distributed thru the south, and woul
start thousands of visitors to Mime
sofa, where there is something rea1.O