The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-07-28
coNcEDE THE SUPREMACY OF
YELLOWSTONE TRAIL.

1t never helps a community t,
knock its neghbors This is a trutf
that has been so long established and
generally recognized that il is a mat
ter of no little surprise to find a
newspaper so excellent and progress
i've as the Standpoint Review going
counter to it, Last week the Wallace
board Of trade rejected a proposal
from the Standpoint chamber OF com
merce asking the Wallace body to
join in an advertising campaign to
induce tourist travel to the towns Of
north Idaho. The reason for reject
ing the proposition were that the
tourist travel over the Yellowstone
trail through Wallace was already so
great that it taxed the camping IA
cilities in this city; that even if it
was desirable it is now too late to
get any beneficial results this year:
that more effective means OF advertis-
ing could be devised, and that to join
Standpoint would accomplish no ben
eicial results. If there had been any
doubt regarding the wisdom of this
action, it is removed by the leading
editorial in the Standpoint Review of
July p. That paper says that for
several years Standpoint has been
paying $3.50 per year to the National
Parks highway, and that at a meet
ing of the directors of the chamber
OF commerce the other day it was de-
cided to withhold further payments
to so-called national" or paper"
highways until they could be shown
where they had received any benefit
from money already poured into the
Golfers of these organizations" Evil
IDENTIFY Standpoint is not getting much |
of the tremendous tourist travel that |
is now sweeping across the continent |
both east and west, and in that stu
alton the chamber of commerce has
shown good Judgment in stopping
payment for something it is not get
ting. But this does not warrant the
Review TO throw rocks at towns
which are more fortunately situated
and which arc realizing their highest
expectations from support Of the
Yellowstone trail in the form of tour
list travel Becoming specific in its
denunclation of national highways
the Review takes this fling at the
Yellowstone trail through the Occur
dAlene district:
The first of these routes to
come through here was the Ma
tional Parks highway, with three
ways from Missoula to Spokane,
via the Occur d'Alenes and the
difficult Fourth of July canyon
and the almost impossible Null
Ian pass"
Strictly speaking the Yellowstone
Trail is no part of the National Parks
highways The Yellowstone trail
was an established and successful
before the National Parks e,
organization came into existence Its it
continued success does not in the lii
east depend upon the latter The So
Yellowstone Trail association permit 81
ed the National Parks association to pc
include it in a spirit of cooperation, tr
moving that its real purpose was to pc
ivert travel to the northern route, as
nat confident that its superior road sit
iay scenic and Industrial attractions pc
'ould insure the big end Of the travel. in
he wall of the Standpoint paper is loi
he best proof that Nhis view was cor at
sct Disappointed. sore and dis est
runtled. the Review undertakes to sh
care tourists away from the yell
wstone trail through the Occur WI
Alene district. 1t refers to the diff
cult Fourth of July canyon" and
he almost impossible Mullan pass"
his is an absolute Misrepresentation lay
Id can be explained only in a de- of
gn on the part of the writer to in cla
ice tourists to take the northern VOL
ute by way of Standpoint between for
issoula and Spokane. The road abb
rough Fourth of July canyon from are
ID TO end is one of the best in the the
constructed by the state and
rest service and Kootenai and sho- to
One counties in accordance with dou