Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-05-01
TOUR IOWA
FIRST SLOGAN
Iowa State Chamber of Com.
merce Starts Campaign
l.. to Boost
Iowa.
HER SCENIC SPOTS
Suggests Some Scenic Auto
mobile Tours of the
!. State.

Believing that the world at lary
and Iowans in particular have CARRIE
with them the image of Iowa as til
state where the tall corn grows" in
Guiding picture of broad, rolling
green carpeted prairies sleek cattle ant
swine. well kept. modern farms ant
unrivaled agricultural leadership. til,
Iowa Chamber of Commerce now seek.
to paint somewhat of different pict
ure of the state by the ina uguratiol
of a Tour Iowa First campo ign.
Iowa, according to the state com
MERGE bodys officials, is more than
land where the tall corn grows. They
claim she is worthy of the name given
her by the Indians hundreds of years
ago, k-y.C'w-a, meaning beautiful
land Iowa-"a short spin from
prairie lands to fairl lands," has at
Maquoketa. a natural bridge rivallinS
that of Virginia; at DEBORAH. caves of
equal scientific interest with those Of
'uSnS' AoASS Us lively us tuOSe OF
New England and the west; rock for
nations at McGregor SO colorful. so
strange, so beautiful, that this section
will possibly become national park
in time.
The officials of the Iowa Stat e Cham
Der Of Commerce further claim that
the state is not lacking in point of his
torical interest for the traveller. The
lower Des MOines river, they say, is
more interesting in history than the
James river in Virginia and that the
regions about Lake OkOboji and Spirit
Lake are replete with Indian lore and
facts. Dubuque, Davenport and other
Iowa towns along the Mississippi river,
the inland towns Of DEBORAH. Iowa City.
LIE Mars and others have historical
associa tons as fascinating in the story
Of Iowa as that Of the Pilgrims in the
history Of New England and the ma ton,
1t is claimed.
The Mormon Trail.
In Iowa. the travellers may find still
evidences Of the Mormon Trace. thei
trail thousands of immigrants took
across Iowa with OK teams and covered
wagons. Near the village of Montrose,
half way between Keokuk and Fort
Madison, are the crumpled, pictures.
que ruins of their former habitation.
1t is pointed out that the covered
wagon and the OK team of yesterday
brought man a traveller into this the
then undiscovered country Iowa. they
say, still is an unknokn quantity in
some respects, and the decendent of
the covered wagon--the automobile, sug-
gests an ideal way to 20 sightseeing,
and discovering through Iowa. The
years have brought many conveniences.
No longer must the traveller pitch his
tent by the wayside. A hundred or two
tourists camping grounds are scattered
over the state, along main highways
and even byways. AS an example of
this. there are II of such camping
grounds along the jefferson highway,
located at Nort.lwOOd, Mason City,
Sheffield, Iowa Falls. Gearing, Nevada.
Des M0ines, IndianOla, Leon. Davis
City, and Lamont, each having ample
facilities, some including lighthouses,
special apparatus for cleaning cars and
the like. IOwa's state parks can be
visited in this fashion and accommO-
datiOns found.
Suggested Towns.
To tour Iowa first. properly. the
Iowa State Chamber Of Commerce sug-
gests few sample tours which might
happily be taken by the Iowan who de.
sires to add historical interest to his
outing. One might start with the state
parks ut keosauqua and Pennington.
and, following the Scenic highway
along the Mississippi 60 through Fort
Madison, MOntrose. keokuk. Burlington,
Wapello and Muscatine (the location
of another state park--Wild Cat DEM :
then on to Davenport. Clinton, Ma