The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-09-13
RESORT
Lake metigoshe Has Had Best
Season in Years
CHANGE TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS
Bottineau Should Get In Line TO Ad-
vertise the Resort In
the East

This has been banner year
for the now famous summer
resort, Lake Netigoshe, located
about ~ miles north of this
city. Quite number of lots
were sold during the summer,
and the number of campers on
! the banks of this beautiful
sheet of water has far exceeded
any previous year. No special
effort on the part of anyone has
brought about this pleasing
state of affairs, but is merely
the result of those who have
been there in previous years
telling their friends about it.
No organized movement has
been inaugurated by any body
of men looking towards the
proper advertisement of this
pleasant spot inside of the
county.
Time was when Great North
ern Railway officials used to 90
there for their summer outing
and they were practically the
only ones, but of late years
each year has seen an increas-
ing number of those who
delight in spending a week or
month among Natures charms
| During the coming winter
something tangible should be
done by the business men of
this city to advertise the lake
in the east and especially in the
Twin Cities. Bottineau is the
closest railroad station to the
lake and naturally this city
would be called to outfit the
campers, and this would add
greatly to the revenue of the
merchants, in fact every mer-
chant would be called upon to
furnish something for the tour
list.
The problem of transportation
between this city and the lake
would be easily solved, as aut-
omobiles would multiply and
besides the livery barns would
be able to take care of a great
number of people IN the matter
of conveyances.
We believe that if this matter
was taken up now that it would
be an easy matter to get the
Great Northern Railway to as
sist in bringing the lake and
this city to the front in it's
winter advertising matter. And
this would be no small thing
either.
During the past two or three
years a number of travelling
men havepurchased lots around
the lake shore and in the future
will spend their summer vaca-
tons there. Every day we hear
strangers remark upon the
feasibility of the lake as a sum-
mer resort and Bottineau as a
supply point. These strangers
see things through different
eyes than we, who are always
here.
People of wealth and those
receiving high salaries are ever
on the lookout for new places
to spend the hot months of the
summer with their families.
MacKinac Island and the num-
berless Great Lake resorts have
in the past been their Mecca,
but like all human beings these
men desire change, and if Lake
Metigoshe was only brought to
their notice in an attractive
form the pessimist would be
Jared out of his hide by seeing
the large number of people
who would come to Bottineau
on their way to the lake.
Illustrated booklets, large
posters. and other attractive
advertising matter should be
prepared during the early win
ter and sent broadcast through
out the east during the early
spring. Dame nature has been
kind to Bottineau and Botti-
neau county, but in no place
has she been so lavish as at
and around Lake Metigoshe.
Let us grasp this opportunity
and make the most of it.