Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-04-10
VERNON WILL CARE
FOR ALL TOURISTS
CAMPING GROUND ESTABLISHED
WITH ALI CITY CONNEN'
FENCES NEARBY.

VERNON. Texas. April 81 free
camping park tor automobile tourists
IL being established at Vernon with
q eoncTe,e swimming pool. cooking fur
nace.. WOOD, running water. camp Ia
Lie~. shade trees. garhas~ cans. xani
tsry tcilets. telephone and quick tire
ana repair service. 49, the result VI the
e;iorts OF the Vernon Commercial Club.
The ps.rk consists Of twenty one aesrs
l.elongng TO n. l.. Momc on the north
plke cot OF q the Colorado 10 the
tiulf Highway running east out Of Yer
nor AR. Moore states that work will
besin at once On lifting up the pArk
for tourists. The ate Is 4 natural
place tor a camping park. having more
tl.zn two hundred shade iree~ ana being
IRA. coyegvd. he owns a concrete
swimming and bath hours On the site
now. ras poo. Win be available q,
q nAnlnssm cnzrge. An the other ccn
veniences are nee. On the western
E.de q this para runs INV % largc
h3Ack Locust trees. The space between
each Of these trres viii be equipped
80 . Stamping l'lace Sos an automobile.
Each park place viii be equipped
with a brick cooking furnace covered
with iron grating ana a jslnt q stove
pipe. =. Free wood viii be supplied. A
concrete table thirty inches by tom
fsft Nlll be built al each place and
cencrvie beaches erected Living water
flrm a well cn the hin viii D. piped
% each camping place. The travel
WEARY and dust covered tourist will
lind 4 cool shade % stop his car. a
SPARKLING pool 81 clear water 10 take
plunge IN. Then he Win lind faciii.
ties for cooking . god supper and TAX
iqg q good nights rest IN q breeze
w1ich sweeps the Pcase River on
which the park site IL situated.
The establishment IL tourist camp
ing PARK In Vernon follows a statewide
ennpaign 10 that effect put on a year
ago BY the Texas Chamber Of Conn
nlerce. II IN estimated By the state
chamber that many thousand tourists
PASSED through Vernon last year. This
city. being a days drive from both
iHprth Worth and Amarillo. n the 10.
eicai place Tor n camping park, II. ID.
t;ibson. local director u the Colorado
20 the Gulf Highway Association. points
cot. The establishment Of this park.
and n properly advertised. will Gauss
many tourists 10 plan 70 make" Yer.
non Tor the night. Mr.. Moore says
hr win place sign board between Fort
Worth and Amarillo telling tourists Of
the FREE camping park facilities n,
Vernon.
The existence II camping parks In
California. Colorado. New Mexico and
other states where they have been es
tnblished. quickly become known "a
tourists throughout the country. ae'
cording 10 automobile clubs and COM
merciai examinations IN towns which
have camping PARKS.
The interest," u the Vernon Chamber
of Conmercs In getting a camping
park here In based on advertising Yer
non. but more on the increased bnainess
which results. AUTOMOBILES tourist,
buy gasoline. oil. tires and other aoces
series. food. clothing. toilet pr~para
tons drugs. cold drinks and sporting
goods They patronize laundries. ho
tells. cafea cigar stores and garages
u comes natural for them TO buy theft
supplies in the town where they spend
fise night.
The Colorado 20 the Gulf Highwa,
Association nssets IN Fort Worth thii
year the hst Of April Officers of IN
association plan 90 start from Denvel
end pick up, cara q delegates aionl
the way. according 20 o. y. Brown
swhs represented the Vernon chambe
~ couimerre q; the associations con
ventlon last year n Trinidad. Tho A.
isrntss plan 20 make a nights stop a
Vernon. II II the -pirpose II NJ
More and thes chamber N have Chi
camping park IN readiness by thei
coming. thereby Ertting the park bsfor
the people. BY reason n the fact tina
this park viii help business general
m Vernon. the local commerce plans :
sre vide publicity "a the establish
nsnt ~ q free camping park for AZ
trmohiies here.
Not only viii ths park attract tout
IDS who travel the Colorado n IN
Gull Highway. hu; Il viii aiso he
resting place for travellers who ooui
IN from the south via the seymou
hsidTe over the Wichita River whic
hfidee has been completed and the roa
tn the pcush opened.
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