The Hays free press., 1922-09-14
NEWS ABOUT THE VICTORY
HIGHWAY

IOpeka, Kansas september IL
The establishment of the Victory
Highway through Steamboat Springs
IN Routt County, Colorado, has in
creased motor tourist travel through
that city by 100 per cent, and has
resulted in the construction of one
of the most enticing tourist camps
there, to be found along the entire
highway.
The camp is located on an island in
a lake near the town. The island is
supplied with mountain water, piped
there from the city mains, with
plenty of shade trees, and with other
conveniences. Nearby there are sew
eral mineral springs, from which the
city has derived its name, and the
locality is one noted through the
Rocky Mountains for the trout fish
ing which it offers.
The island on which the tourist
camp is located is reached by means
of rustic bridge which has just been
completed this summer.
Motor tourists using the Victory
Highway frequently find the camp
ground at Steamboat Springs so
pleasant that they break their journ-
ney there for several days.
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There are no less than ten branch
bureaus of the Victory Highway
association west of Topeka, through
which information as to the route
may be had.
These consist of Chambers of Com
merce, automobile clubs, and sim
liar agencies, which have been sup
piled with strip maps and information
on the highway, for distribution to
the touring public.
The information agencies are locat-
ed in Kansas, Colorado, Utah and
Nevada. The latest organization to
affiliate with the association in the
matter of giving out news is the
Chamber of Commerce of Reno, New
ada.
Idaho Springs on the Victory
Highway in Colorado, is this week
celebrating an occurrance of history,
which was of vital interest not only
to Idaho Springs, but to the colonial
tion of the entire western half of the
continent.
The Victory Highway passes the
site where, on January z, 1859, gold
was first discovered in Colorado. The
first ''color" was panned out by
George A. Jackson, a prospector who
had wandered into the country.
Idaho Springs will turn the clock
back sixty-three years this week. Gov
ernor Shoup of Colorado, is to take
part in the celebration. A detach-
ment of the Colorado National Guard
will stage a real battle. One unique
feature of the celebration will be the
burning of a five-room house, stuffed
with hay and straw.
Lesser amusements, such as a
turkey chase, with numerous of the
big birds given their liberty at the
same time to be cuaght by the lucky
ones, creased pigs, and a peculiarly
ColOrado-like event, rock drilling
contest, Will be attractions on the
program.
There will be an old fiddlers' con-
test, compared wiah jazz; dancing,
barbecues, and a long whisker con-
test.
Mrs. James c. Wright, one of the
first white women to arrive in Colo
rado, who crossed the plains with
Jackson's party in 1859, viii attend
the celebration.
The town has gone back in appear
ance to the Days of '59,' in prepar-
alton of the celebration.
The first mining camp of Colorado
is fast becoming mountain pleasure
resort. There are mineral springs
there, hotels, trout fishing, and radiat-
ing from the town, large number of
delightful mountain trails for side
trips.
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Ben Blow, manager of the Victory
Highway Association, over the west
ern portion of the highway, several
new official hotels and garages have
been designated along the route.
Fifty official hotels and garages
have been designated along the route
It is the policy of the manager of the
association to carefully investigate
the standing and practices of the con-
Germs which receive the official signs
Hostelries and garages Of the Vic
tory Highway now stretch at intervals
of about forty miles along the route
between Kansas City and San Fran