The Glenwood post., 1917-05-19

line. However, if there are good
camping grounds in the town, such
travellers will stop over night, spend
more money in town, and possibly be
induced to stay another day or SO. If
there are no camp grounds at hand,
they proceed on to where there are
such facilities, and the benefit of their
coming is greatly lessened. 1t would
seem to me that the thing to do is to
recognize this fact, and provide for
them accordingly. r.
Colorado in general has an unexcelled
opportunity for reaching a great num-
ber of automobile tourists, and Glen
wood Springs is as much favored as
any town in the state in this respect.
In Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma,
the farmers are exceedingly prosperous,
and statistics show that the ownership
OF cars among that class of people IS
immense. The observation has further
been that tn Sc farmers, during the
heat Of the summer, are coming more
and more to realize how easy it is to
reach the mountains of Colorado in the
heat of the summer. As result, thev
are making it the practice to pack up
a take vacation tri p to the noun.
tains &c Colorado This SORT of bus.
less aas comparatively just begin, ani
Is going to increase to an amazing ex-
tent in the future, for Colorado towns
on the eastern slope are already alive
TO the possibilities of such business.
and are putting forth every effort to
hold them i'll their locality. 1t would
seem, therefore, that this is a class of
tourist trade that should be sought
after by such towns as Glenwood 1t
is exactly what is being done by the
towns on the eastern slope that are no
better, if as we'll possessed of natura,
advantages to attract them as Glen
wood. But before you can successfully
and permanently attract them to Glen
wood, it is believed that something
more than a camp site in or near town
and the other present attractions must
be provided
In this connection, your attention is
further invited as to just what the
wide-awake tourist towns on the east
ern slope are doing to attract automo-
bile tourists. AS you are well aware.
the traveller over the main thorough
fares of the mountain learns compara-
lively little of the scenic grandeur of
the Rockies. Some of the towns of
the eastern slope, upon the advent of
the automobile tourist, speedily recog-
nized this fact, and the possibilities
that it brought out As result, the
great idea in those towns is, to pierce
the interior of the mountains with roads
for automobiles, thus deviatng the au-
tomobile tourist from the through lines
of travel, and so arrange such roads as
to make ii imperative for such travel
ers to abide in their town another
night. In other words. these towns are
putting forth every effort to build
roads providing side trips from their
towns to scenic points. Such roads
should. of course, be invariably built
with the idea of bringing the traveller
back to the town.
7 am fairly well familiar in a gem
eral way with the ideas along this line,
as no doubt you all are on reflection.
and feel safe in saying that there is
no town in the state of Colorado that is
surrounded with more natural advan-
of advertising and fame if it were ira
versed with good automobile road.
ia ges for a road building idea along
this line than Glenwood. Glenwood
not only possesses unexcelled scenic
grandeur within easy reach. but the
cost of building the road will undoubt-
edly be comnarativelv at minimum
when the distance to be covered is
taken into consideration. AS stated
before. do not believe YOU can appeal
successfully to automobile tourists with
out such a road-that is, side trip
from Glonwood that can be advertised
far and wide as urexcelled in the
Rockies as an automobile drive.
Just to the north of Glcnwood there
is a natural, immense. recreational area
of possibly over 100000 acres. located
within the Holy Cross and White River
national forests. At the present time
this immense area is traversed by a
very poorly constructed wagon road as
far as Deep lake. The distance from
Glenwood Springs to Deep lake is ap.
proximately 90 miles. Those Of You
-la a-a fnrnilia. with tho Dnnr, lalxe