The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-23

T0OURIST TRAVEL will soon be
at an end for this season, and
the people of Wallace and other
towns in the Occur d'Alene dis
trict should now turn their attention
to the working out of plans for at
tracing many more tourists to this
section next year. The people of Wal
lace in particular have had a fine OBJ
ject lesson during the past few
months showing the value of tourist
travel both in actual cash left in the
city and in advertising the business
and mining opportunities in the city
and district And yet the past sum-
mer is hardly a starter compared with
the vast number of people who will
motor across the continent over the
several highways which are Compel
ing for the travel. The essential fact
to keep in mind is that the people are
coming and it is up to the cities and
towns along the transcontinental
highways to offer inducements for
them to come their way. See Am
erica First" is a watchword that is
taking firm hold of the people, and the
motor car has made it possible for
millions of them to act upon it, while
the construction and maintenance of
transcontinental highways has open
ed to them the doorways to the won
derland of the west. They are COM
ing and it is up to each local COM
munity to see that it profits by the
invasion.
Leave Millions of Dollars.
At a meeting in Spokane last week
in honor of officers of the national
parks highway associations it was
officially stated that during the sea-
son just closing the amount of money
left in the west by tourists was fully
$3.50. 900, 900 and that this is only about
half the sum that has heretofore been
left by American tourists in Europe. !
Think of these figures. you who have
been disposed to look upon tourist /
travel as a passing fad and who have
opposed the construction of perIhan-
ent highways as a means of attract |
ing the travel. Those figures repre- /
sent merely the beginning and each |
year will show a heavy increase. |
Every tourist becomes a living ad-
vcrtisement for the town he visits /
and roads he travels and whether that |
advertisement is good or bad depends
absolutely upon his treatment in the
towns he passes through, the attrac-
tions offered and the condition of the
roads he travels
Advantages of Wallace.
While the people of Wallace have
long displayed a public spirit and
civic pride in the city, they have
never grasped the fact that its loca-
ton in the heart of this great mining
region. surrounded by towering noun
tains. is an asset that could be used
to attract many tourists every year
Visitors compare its picturesque To-
cation and romantic surroundings
with famous resorts in our own coun-
try and in Europe which are visited
by thousands of pleasure seekers
every year. If we can not utilize this
natural advantage to the full extent,
we can at least enlarge the camping
facilities for the benefit of the tour
ing public and probably offer them in
ducements that will hold them long
er than over night in our midst Inc
Wallace camp site has become fam ,
GUS all along the Yellowstone trail and ;
on other lines of travel, and its popu- 2
larity has demonstrated that more
room is necessary TO accommodate the
travel that will come this way next
wear. How to enlarge it and still 7
maintain it within the city is the r
problem that must be solved if we ex- +
pect to secure our share of the golden
harvest that the tourist travel is :
to the west d