Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-22

Elko Is very heavy and the hotels are
taxed to their full capacity.
Then what are we to do with the
crowds that will be here to attend the
rodeo in September?
At midnight last night Clerk Hays
at the Mayer and Clerk Bartlett at
the Commercial were telephoning each
other and around town asking for
rooms for late arrivals.
Both were crowded by auto tourists
on their way to see the exposition.
They could not very well hang their
guests on nails nor put them in coal
bins.
People who travel by auto to see
worlds fairs usually like a bed to
sleep in. And there were no beds to
be had. What to do was the ques-
ton.
I'VE already had all the guests we
could take care of before this tourist
travel started" said Mr.. Bartlett.
And the auto travel has just com.
menced. 1t will be at its height in
September and up until the SHOWS
close In the Sierras.
Thus the handling of the crowds
that will be in Elko Rodeo week in
September is already becoming prob
lem and one which Manager Garcia is
giving serious attention.
No doubt he will find a solution for
this difficulty as he has for all others
that have stood IN the way of the Elko
Development company.
One way out is to build a tent city.
This should be done by all means. In
this climate in the summer all one
wants is a bed 10 sleep in. He does
not need a shelter
The writer once made a trip along
the Southern Pacific in Arizona and
one of the sights was to see people
sleeping out of doors on cots along
the right of way in the towns. At
Maricopa dozens of sleepers were
snooZing away on a wire cot under
the trees.
This is the solution of the problem
for Elko. In fact 1t is almost a crime
to sleep indoors such weather as this
in Elko. If not crime it is at least
an unwise thing 10 do.
At San Francisco the world Is
spending a hundred million duilf in
an exposition. What is the obje.. of
this great outlay? It is not wholly
for amusement.
People are expected to learn some
thing. One of the great exhibits at
the worlds fair is the race better
ment display in the education building.
One of the rules promulgated by
this race betterment campaign, IS
sleep out IL you can" Why add
those words, "if you cam?
The writer has slept out of doors
in northern Elko county when the
thermometer was twenty degrees be-
low zero and the snow was four feet
deep. 1t is not necessary to say, "if
you can" However, the instance men
toned was a case Of necessity.
Thus all the luxuries are not in
sunny California. Pure air and pure
water are just as much luxuries as is
good food.
1t is very easy matter for Elko to
import fruits from California. Thus 1t
is possible for us to have pure air,
pure water and pure food all the time.
But 1t is not such an easy mat
ter for California to import pure air
and pure water from Nevada. Thus
Nevada has its advantages over the
poppy state.
1t is a serious matter II we are to
entertain a crowd Rodeo week. And
II is a still more serious matter Il
we are to encourage auto travel
through Elko county.
For the first time in its history the
Yellowstone park Is now being thrown
open to autos. Long after the San
Francisco fair is matter Of history
tourists to the Yellowstone park will
be passing through Nevada on their
way to California. The fact is that
the auto travel will probably be on
the increase after the worlds fair
closes.
We come now to the business end
OF this matter. The people who trav.
el by auto are out sightseeing. They
are tired of the conventional city life,
the theaters and the banquet halls and
the ball rooms.
They are looking for the unique,
the bizarre, the wild and woody. Moth
ing holds such fascination for the
tourist as the picturesque cowboy.
II we have way to put up these
tourists for the night many Of them
will stop over in Elko to take in the
rodeo. These tourists have money and
they spend It, Rut they want comfort.
They don't care what It costs.
II we have hotel accommodations
for these tourists some will lay over
day in Elko to take in the rodeo.
Some may stay a week. But without
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