, 1922-01-04
What About Tourist Travel

Have you noticed what the Denver
papers have been saying about the
tourist harvest OF 1877 Thirty-nve
million dollars from i've hundred
thousand tourists. left In Colorado
wouldn't you call tina. pretty sood
dividends on The hospitality Of the
staf:. They sold SIS .o0o. 900 worth OF
sun. line and scenery and got Their
money IN real money and as much
more in advertising. For don't you
know that every dollar a tourist
leaves with you Is q dollars worth o
advertising for tho place he leaves It
In? wyoming has greater assets In
sunshine and mountain and plain
scenery than any state IN the union.
and every time we sell q dollars worth
OF It to a tourist II doubles the value
Of what we have left. and we've got
It all left. for no n can carry away
a single dollars worth Of II. no mat
ter how many Thousands OF dollars
worth he may buy
The new yea. must see some tre-
mendous strides toward q cement
concrete highway the fun length OF
the Yellowstone highway. It's got to
be done. It Is absolutely imperative
from n business standpoint for the
state OF Wyoming. The Lincoln high
way Will bring thoussads OF tourists
as far as Cheyenne this year. 1t is
already estimated that the tourist
crop will be double that Of 1871. When
they get to Cheyenne where r they
going. II we have the highway that
invites them because OF its excellence
they are coming up into the state
on TO the Yellowstone National
park. but II we do not have the high
they are going south TOWARD
Denver. This not only encourages
Tho building OF a good south road 70
thu park. but causes Us to lose a lot
of good business that should by every
in the world come to Casper.
The Denver merchants are unanimous
In tho opinion that the tourist trade
has made the two dullest month"; 81
tho year. July and august. the best
months OF all tho year. Even better
than that the holiday trade. Imagine
that Who would have thought It
to mako July as big a month
for business. In the dry goods line. as
December7 Yet they have done hat
very thing in Denver. and the tourists
did II.
We have many good men but OF
work hero right now. and right now
is the time to begin our road pro
gram for the year. President Harding
said when he signed the Federal Aid
bin giving the country. SIS. 0oo. 900 for
immediate use on tho roads that Il
could not be signed too soon because
It would give employment 10 idle
of men who need tho work
The state OF Colorado Is preparing 10
spend another SIS. 0o0. 900 during the
year 1922 In building new roads and
maintaining tho Old ones in the state
OF Colorado. Colorado is awake to
what good roads NEAR to them. Both
commercially and from the standpoint
Of the tourist as well. or course the
tourist business is social as well as
but when I say CONNER
/ mean from strictly n com.
merctal point for the residents o.
Colorado. The following clipping
which has been printed in almost
every paper in the state of Colorado
what an interest they nro tax
ing the kinds OF ~pavernents that shall
be used in hat state.
There was a test made II the vtcin
ity OF Cleveland on the mount of fuel
required for the operation of five two
trucks on various roads, with the
following result:
- 5.7--s--- miles per gallon