Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27
TOURISTS NOT
ONLY SOURCE
OF REVENUE
Mining Men Swell
City'S Golfers
Winter Visitors This Year Exceed Past
Records and Many are Coming
From the North Pacific
States

Instead of one great source of rev.
years, the city has several sources,
according to local railway and hotel
men familiar with the situation.
There has long been an impression
that the prosperity of Los Angeles-and,
in fact, of all Southern California-de-
pends upon the coming of the eastern
tourists, but now, say the men who
are in a position to know, other ave-
nues of revenue are opening UP and
this winter will be the most prosperous
in the history of the city.
Already there are more people in
Los Angeles than ever before and the
trains from the east are bringing in
more every day, but they are also
coming from the north and from the
nearby mining districts of Nevada and
Arizona.
The opening of the railways into Ne
vada is making travel from parts OF
that state, heretofore so remote, easy
and there is not a hotel in Los An
geles that does not number among its
guests large number of mining men.
Come from Everywhere
For the first time in the history of
the city there is a general influx of
people from. Washington, Oregon and
Nevada.
The Salt Lake road, which is the
youngest of the roads bringing pas
sengers to the Pacific coast, is taxed
to the limit and the demands made
upon the road are so great that the
motive power is short. The master
mechanics complain that the immense
engines are so overworked that they
cannot get them in the shop long
enough to make even the smallest and
ae,CN Y.ltN, ,f,.e. ,e ratI l,,A
twenty-five new engines have been or
dered and even these will not be more
than enough to haul the people coming
into Southern California over that
route alone.
The opening of the extension of the
Salt Lake road into Nevada has re-
suited in greatly increased traffic over
the road and it is believed that the
question in the hotels will soon be not
How many tourists have you here?"
but How many mining men have
you?"
Speaking for the Southern Pacific
road, the passenger manager declared
that the company is having a difficult
time to get Pullmans enough to carry
the people who want to travel.
Shriners Book Transportation
1--WE are being sorely taxed and the
end is not yet-in fact this is but the
DeElnnlnB, SAID ne. In aQultlOn TO
the regular winter crop of eastern
tourists the.e will be a great number
who will attend the Shrine in May and
the bookings ahead indicate that Los
Angeles will, be crowded with visitors.
The season did not really begin last
year until the middle of February, but
I think there are more strangers here
now than there were at that time.
THE meeting of the National Edu-
cational. association will bring many
more thousand people here and think
there will be $4,000 people who will take
advantage of the homeseekers' rates
from March 1 to April 30.
From the middle west there is a
greater number of people coming than
ever before and the whole city is feel
ing the general prosperity"
Santa Fe Crowded
e. w. MCGEE, passenger manager of
the Santa Fe, says that the Santa Fe
Limited is bringing in from 75 to 100
passengers every day, to say nothing
of those coming on the other trains.
I'VE need have no fear but that this