Semi-weekly herald., 1913-01-27
NATIONAL PARKS, GOOD ROADS
AND AUTOMOBILES.

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ing is causing the agitation as much
as the increase in automobile travel.
The next thing is providing the kind
of resorts the American people de-
mand. In the first place no state in
the union offers more attractions to
the pleasure and scenery tourists than
Colorado, providing the resorts can
be reached by good roads. Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo people
realize this, also Canon City. Never
a good roads meeting that the above
places are not well represented. With
the right kind of road connecting the
San Juan basin with the San Luis
valley, Pueblo and Denver, the tour
ist auto business would be worth fully
as much as the crops, the good road
to continue to Grand Junction by way
of Silverton and Ouray. In this con-
nection we desire to call especial at
tention to an editorial in the Denver
News of Monday as follows, also to
an editorial in the Colorado Springs
Telegraph which follows, showing
some of the discussion going on in
congress over the good roads question
and the method of securing money to
build the roads:
National Parks and Automobiles
Denver News
The report of r. B. Marshall to the
secretary of the interior recommend
ing the establishment of the Rocky
enthroned at the doors of Denver,
brings up what it will mean to Colo
RADIO and to every city and town in
the state when the flood of pleasure
travel starts towards it, which it will
be sure to do upon favorable action
ty congress and the building of good
roads to reach it.
To comprehend this in all its rea-
sonable possibilities, one has only to
contemplate how the automobile is be-
coming to be more and more every
year one of the richest sources of
pleasure and profitable revenue to the
American people.
In New York there are $4,000 reg
istered machines. That is in one city
tC the extreme east of Colorado. In
California, the extreme western state,
there are 10000 registered machines
Even in Nebraska every tenth family
owns an automobile, while in Colorado
an automobile will be found in the
| garage of every eleventh family.
The treasury of New York is en-
riched every year by $1,000,000 and
owe: for registration fees of the auto
enue of about S5,0O0,000 from the
same source.
This fever "a healthful and
| strengthening fever-has struck in as
far north as the state of Maine
Within the last six months motor
| cars have increased in numbers in the
Pine Tree state 67 per cent.
Better still, the American automo-
bile is now leading the world and out
selling every other machine in the
! markets of the world. The balance
of trade in the automobile business
| that not long since was in favor of
| Europe and against the United States
is now overwhelming in our favor
| How long is it since we heard of rich
! American families importing their
| machines from France? Now the
French capitalist who just won't take
the dust of his slow neighbor content
with French car, orders his from
Detroit, Chicago or New York-and
the sales of the American machine in
European markets is growing with
giant strides.
Read these figures and stare: The
United States exported only 500 cars
in 1901; she exported nearly 10000 in
1912, and where the value of this ex-
port was but $l,000,000 in 1901 it
grew to more than S22,000.000 in 1912.
The American automobile has been
developed into the most beautiful, the
most luxurious, the mosts pleasure
and health giving of all vehicles. Ere
long, in the summer months, it will
carry more pleasure-seeking travellers
between the cities of the Atlantic and
Pacific states than the railroads.
Now, every line of this is peril
nent to the Rocky Mountain National
park. Mr.. Marshall declares this park
combines more of beauty and grand
eur than any other national park, and
is more easy of access. Just imagine
hundreds of thousands of wealthy
pleasure and health seekers, from
Maine to California and from the Ca
madam borders to the gulf of Mexico,
who will make the Rocky Mountain
National park their Mecca with the
automobile as their seven-league boots
to reach it, and those to be followed
by the sated devotees of pleasure from
European cities, who, learning of the
glories of the park, will commence
their annual pilgrimages.
Tax Tobacco for Highways
Colorado Springs Gazette
A small tax upon tobacco to defray
tho expapSa Of "a evstap, of nati.po |