The Winslow mail., 1925-08-21
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO Do
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TRAFFIC THROUGH
WINSLOW IS LESS
Winslow, Ariz, Aug. 15.-From
some cause, travel over the Old
Trails highway is decreasing. In
1923 the average during the tour
ing season was 500 cars day This
fell to 400 in 1924 and thus far this
season only about $50 cars a day
are passing. No figures are at
hand to check against other routes,
but it is believed that highways to
the northward are getting much of
the traffic lost here. To assist in
turning traffic this way and for
the information of the tourists in
WinslOw now is being published
the National Old Trails Tourists
Daily News, for free distribution
both to the eastward and on the
coast.
The letter follows:
w. E. CRUM
Oil Operator
sos 4th National Bank Bldg.
Wichita, Kansas
The attached clipping from the
Los Angeles Sunday Times of Aug.
16, stating there are $50 less cars
daily passing through Winslow
than during the season of 1923, and
apparently giving no good reason
for this decrease.
While / have no authentic reason
for this decrease in travel, | would
like to advance to you probable
reason, or at least express my opin-
ion on what would seemingly
cause some decrease in the travel
on this, the west end" of the Ma
tional Old Trails highway First, 1
do not think there is as much
travel to the coast as there was in
1928. Secondly, the FREE and al
most unlimited amount of adver-
tising you are getting of the con-
ditiOn of this highway, in particu-
lar the strip from your city to-
Flagstaff and from a short distance
| west of Needles to BarstoW. The
thought of going over these two
stretches again after having been
over them a few times before is al
most enough to cause person to
select another route to reach his
| destination, as was the case with
us the last two trips. Before leav-
ing home in June this year we
made inquiry as to the condition of
these sections above mentioned, and
were informed that they were still
in deplorable condition, so we de-
cided to come the southern route,
just as many other people must be
doing. -
You take the percentage of the
advertising you will get from these
| $50 cars, or rather their occupants,
that are now coming over this road
| daily, and you will undoubtedly get
some damaging results. 1t was
| only yesterday | was talking to a
party from Fort Wayne, Ind, that
had just arrived here, and upon
| learning the reason of his leaving
the N. o. T. at Los Lunas and COM
ing on over the southern route,
| found that he had returned last
year over the N o. t., thus learn
ing the condition of the Barstow-
| Needles and Flagstaff WinSloW
parts of this highway, and upon
learning from eastbound tourists
this trip that these stretches were
still in bad condition, he left the
N. o. T. at Los Lunas. Hence an
other car failed to pass through
Winslow.
We have been making the trip out
| and back each year for several
years, and hope the howl of the
knockers will change and say the
| N. o. T. is good all the way through
now, for there is no route to the
coast that affords the hotel accom-
modations as does the Harvey Sys-
tenn along the NJ o. T., none with
as many natural, historical and 9th
er places of interest to the traveller
or as pleasant a climate as this
route. Place a man at the east
entrance to your city; let him ask
thinks of the N O. t. He will be
a good booster. Place another man
at the east entrance to Barstow,
and let him ask the same traveller
what his opinion is of the N. 0. t.,
and he will be a knocker.
Business reasons necessitate our
returning to our home in Wichita
over this route, therefore we will
appreciate one of the FREE bulle
tins mentioned in this article. If
everything holds together over the
Barstow-Needles and Flagstaff
Winslow stretches. we will be
through your city about Sept. 16.
Trusting that we will find these
stretches in better condition than
expected, Judging from almost daily
reports on them.
Yours very truly.
w. E. CRUM.