The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-09
T0URISTSARE COMING NORTH
 THIS SUMMER
(From Fairbanks News-Miner)

and afterwards spoke against tourist travel to Our Town until accommoda- tions for tourists were assured, after which they would be ready to cover this camp all over with rich stamps, some of the impatient people of Our Town who want what they want when they want it, whether it is good for them or not, were peeved and com- plained at the inactivity of the Alaska Steamship Company, but more people here could see that the steamship of ficials were right As an instance that they are ready to start the tourist travel next year we print the follow ing we received from MT. Bunch:
 My dear Mir Thompson:
 I am inclosng proof or reprint of an article to appear, or which has ap- peared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle" regarding a special party of about six ty persons which that paper is pro- posing to organize and conduct on a special tour to particularly to Mount Mckinley Park, to partici- pate in Dedicatory Services sometime during next July.
 We have had letter from the As sociate Editor and Tour Manager of the paper and he has also talked with our New York office and I have writ ten him as fully as could regarding such trip and also covering alterna- tive routing of party one way over the automobile road between Valdez or Chitina and Fairbanks, and the other way over the Government Rail- road, including Fairbanks in the itin- erary, instead of merely making the trip from Seward or Anchorage out to Mount Mckinley Park and back over the Government Railroad. We will, of course, do all we can to assist in making up the party and routing it through Fairbanks, either in and out over the Government Railroad, or one way over the automobile road if arrangements can be made to satisfac- tOrily handle the party over the trail and take care of the people at the roadhouses and hotels.
 I am writing to you to get the mat ter before your people and to secure full and definite information covering the trip over the trail and covering the roadhouse facilities, distances, etc, and the transportation facilities, rates, etc. You will understand that the matter is only prospective so far and the party may not be organized and the trip may not be made. will want as early as possible com nlete list of all of the roadhouses along the trail. both from Valdez and Chitina to Fairbanks, with the names and addresses of the operators, the rates for meals and sleeping accom- modations and the distances from Val dez and Chitina. I think l should also have the names of the different hotels in Fairbanks and the names of the proprietors, rates, number of peo- pie each can accommodate.
 I have written the Brooklyn paper that think in making the trip over the automobile road it would be ne- cessary to divide the party and have the people leave the terminal of the automobile road in three or four smaller parties on succeeding days in order that they can be taken care of at roadhouses, or that it might be arranged to start the entire party from the terminal at one time, either from Valdez or Chitina, if they go in come out over the trail, and travel different distances and put up at diff ferent roadhouses, then on the second morning start the same way, travel different distances again to different roadhouses the second night, and fin ally on the third day arrive at the other end of the road practically at the same time in one party. You can see that it will be necessary for me to have memorandum of the distances, in order to figure this out. All ar arrangements will, of course, be made we'll in advance and an itinerary well worked out and in such case if the party materializes there will be plenty of automobiles to handle party of sixty, and will Fairbanks be able to take care of that many extra people at one time for a few days? Would Fairbanks undertake to furnish all of the automobile facilities required, or would it be necessary or advisable for us to also figure with people at Chitina and Valdez? In case Fair banks would undertake to furnish ia
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