The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-07
HIGHWAY WINS
PARK TOUR FOLK

New superlatives in expressing SEN
sations on viewing the Highway were
uttered Wednesday of last week by Col
orado and California men. members of
the National Parks Caravan. guests at
a lucnheon by Hood River citizens on
their arrival from Portland.
although the eulogies which Frank
Branch Riley has voiced cannot begin to
depict the views saw today, declared
Harry A. Burhams, executive secretary
of the Denver Tourist Bureau, "and the
one thought had when | arrived here
was the opportunity you have of capt.
talizing on your magnificent scenery.
Portland is overlooking a real good bet.
In 1915, with our Rocky Mountain Ma
tional Park, no further from Denver
than your Mount Hood, our tourist bus
mess, which, it is declared, has become
Colorado's s greatest individual industry,
returned us $50, 900, 900. We started In
small way with one hotel. Today we
have 40 You have the greatest drive
on the North American continent Port
land can branch out, too, toward the
sea. 0regon's metropolis has Hood
River in the Mountains and Astoria on
the Pacific. San Francicso and Los
Angeles need to be aroused to the OPP
portunity they have for selling their
scenery.
Mr.. Burhams outlined plans of the
| Park Association to ask congress for an
appropriation of $5, 900, 900 for an inter
national advertising campaign. Gus
Holm s, head of the Park to Park Tour
ist Association. rebuked citizens of the
| Pacific coat sections for allowing stories
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| impasable. He declared that hundreds
of automobiles had been shipped from
Seattle to Los Angeles last year be-
cause motorists were given to under
stand that highways were impassable.
"In fact" he said only short
stretches were difficult of negotiation.
Mr. Holm's declared that transconti-
entail lines of highways must be deyel-
oped we'll as roads up and down the
Pacific coast. Then. he declared. the
need that will become obvious for the
stretches we need to connect the ma
tioal parks Many sections. he said,
are not able financially to build their
individual links of the proposed great
national park highway of about 5000
miles.
Other speakers al the luncheon were
Mayor Scobee; w. j. Hoffman,. of
Portland, president of the Pacific North
west Tourist Association; F. b. Owens,
representing the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce on the Caravan; Leslie
Butler and Frank Branch Riley. The
visitors, before returning to the Port
land Automobile Club, where they were
guests at dinner given by W. f. Nc.
Kenney, president of the Club, were
taken for tours of the orchards. where
hey witnessed harvest scenes. Their
automobiles were loaded down with ap'
piles.
The party was accompanied by @
White motor truck which has beer
driven the entire distance of 23O0 miles
so far covered by r. Nj. Davis, assist
ant manager of the Denver branch ol
the company. If the snow is too deeT
for passenger automobile traffic wher
the caravan reaches Medford all mem
bers will journey to Crater Lake aboard
the truck, according to present plans.
Weather conditions we're perfect th'
day of the junket here.
G.. w. McCullaRh presided at tbs
luncheon. Mr.. Butler in his talk an
nounced that he had received wore
from the State Highway Commission
that the Loop Highway around Noun
Hood was now an assured fact. Mr.
Riley referred to Hood River as Gin
derella who had remained unknown il
her Isolation until barriers we're broker
down by the Highway. Now. he said
, Hood River is hostess TO the world
MIR. Owens congratulated Oregon OF
her wonderful natural scenery. Cali
fornia, he said. has only artificial seen
cry. but she makes the most of it in |
commercial way.