Cañon City record., 1908-09-17

California may need paint but she
excells in printed matter and all
forms Of advertising. No state In the
union has been 10 we'll promoted and
20 adyantageously advertised. Ehe
lives ON and draws from the prosper
GUS East only because Of all this ad-
vertising.
All the larger cities have their act
i've chambers Of commerce with large
display rooms and these cooperate
to aid and advertise the smaller places
and raral sections. Every point Of
Interest in 1outhern California re-
csiyss sopport from all other sections
and every California man is booster
for the state.
Colorado and Canon City can we'll
afford to look to California for few
pointers In these lines-and have
long observed that those Canon City
citizens who have spent a little time
In Southern California are the most
enthusiastic in favor OF our own town
advertising.
California has much that is OF in
terest. Of course, but she works every
little feature to the limit
Take San Diego for example. Aside
from the ocean she hasn't half SO many
rival wonders Of nature or features
of interest to tourists as Canon City.
San Diego is on all main lines and has
to draw all her tourists from Los
Angeles. q distance nearly equal to
that between Canon City and Denver.
much greater than that between Can
ON City and Colorado Springs, our
greatest tourist stopping point.
With this handicap San Diego draws
thousands OF tourists every year
hundreds q day during the two tour
ist seasons each year.
OF course the business 10 organized
here and those Who can proat BY the
tourist trade 90 after II in business
like fashioa.
one e1carsaoa COMPANY tAksa
thouaaads to San Diego each season
and holds tAsm thsrs several days
showing them the points OF intersst.
rhis company afraAess With heal
railroads. aaA uvsry stAhaes for -
'1ooai trsH HQr sxAAUss. Eirst -aay
q trip to Old Msxioo and Sweet Water
Dam for oas dollar and this trip
amounts to very little except the nov
city Of crossing Tie Nsxieaa border
line 0scond day. morning. CorosaAo
which is q ferry boat trip and . visit
70 The big hotsl-costs about any
csnts- Afsssnooa-carriags trip to
Point Iona. S1.oo. which isn't In II
with . drive 70 sAs top Of the Royal
Gorge. Third day--Car trip to Ia
Jolla. Soc Another Aalf days trip to
Old Mission. el.oo.
These trips are % literally adver-
tised that svsry BODY Who eoes TO Gan
Diego takes some or all OF them-aad
there isn't one Of tAsss trips that can
not be excelled BY trips out Of Canon
City.
In Canon City Ne do not half aUDrs-
clate our possibilities ~ . toarist
point. No systematic EFFORT has ever
been made to get the tpurtst TO stop
OF there. And It has seemed to Ne
sometimes that those most directly
interested In handling the tourist
business have givsa the matter very
little thought.
The grocer. the physician. the
fruit grower, the Newspaper. all get
q secondary benefit from the tourist
business. They get = marked benefit
all right but II comes later. The
hotels, rooming houses, livery stables.
curio stores, the natatorium and few
others get a direct benefit the day the
tourist lands in town and where the
tourists are numbered by the thous-
ands this benefit Is magnificent. and
1t reaches to every channel Of busi-
ness and property interest.
So It looks like somebody could well
afford to take the lead in turning the
tourist travel to Canon City.
And Il ought to be whole lot
easier to get It started toward Canon
City than 1t was to pull It to San
Diego.
Canon City 10 only eighty miles