The Coconino sun., 1925-10-02
Cochise County Booster Refttes High
Price Propaganda at Grand Canyon

person can get room for $1.50, or
one fronting the Canyon for $1.75 q
night, or if you have your wife, it's
$3.50 or $500, according to location.
And here you get your meals "a la
carte" and can pay as much or little
as you desire. All the markets afford
is served and that's all there is to be
had anywhere.
| OF course it is suDerfhuous to speak
of the excellence of the Fred Harvey
cuisine. To criticize it is to make
one out ''nincompoop, but that is
not all If you roll into the Canyon
by auto you can get yourself roomy
cottage, one hundred or so feet from
the rim at $3.50 per night, or if your
wife happens to be along, $3.50 4
night, clean as a pin with maid serv
ice, two nice double, sleepable beds
with spotIessly white linen, electric
light, and if you have three in your
party it is $3.50 a night, or four per
sons $450 per night. think an ideal
combination is to take cottage and
park your car by the board walk or
right near your cottage, thus saving
storage charge, that's $3.50. Then
breakfast at the Bright Angel, any
where from so cents up per couple;
lunch--many do not eat any, but It
you do it would be another so cents
or up per couple, and then go to the
Ell Tovar and have dinner at $500 per
couple, and you can do all of that
anywhere for between So and SO per
couple per day. Can you beat it ?
Let's see, cottage, $3.50; dinner, $500;
breakfast, the man, hot cakes and cup
of Java, and Harvey makes good
Java, 40 cents; >,the wife, coffee and
toast, 20 cents. That's 60c for the
breakfast; lunch, if you take it, say so
cents for the man and 20 cents for
the wife She's waiting for the El
Tovar dinner Add that up and it is
$3.50 for two for a whole day. Why,
at the most ordinary places you can
not beat that. Of course you can pay
more, but the point is you don't have
to at the Grand Canyon and besides
that you are not putting your hand
into your pocket every time you bat
your eye to tip some one.
In Europe Ca man from New Zea
land told me) the tourist in a similar
situation (if they had one) would be
| flim-flammed to death, and he said
the knew because he had been all over
Europe before and after the war. He
said: "The most reasonable thing here
is the Harvey prices. The Grand Can
yon is the only thing that is unreason-
able and that is because it is so un-
reasonably large"
| Take the trip down Bright Angel
trail You leave at $50 a. M, and
return about 5 p. m. You ride mule
down and back. A big mule that costs
+ some dinero and you have a guide, and
wheh, at noon, you arrive at the Colo
rado river opposite the mouth Of
Bright Angel canyon, you are fur
nished a Harvey box lunch and the
trip and lunch cost you $500, or you
go to the Indian dance outside the
Hopi house and you see the dance ard
hear the lecture, and it is free unless
you want to voluntarily throw a little
on the Indians drum head. or drop
into the music room of the El Tovar
at s at night, hear a good lecture and
see moving pictures of the Canyon
and trips. Advertising, yes, 'tis true,
but it's free, or you go to hear one
of the Kolb brothers lecture and see
their slides and movie pictures of the
Canyon. None others in the world
like them, and it is the most inter
esting thing imaginable, and it's only
fifty cents. / do not know of any
place on the globe, by personal travel,
or in reading that one can get so much
| for ones money as this "monopolized"
CONCESSION the government has given
to the Harvey system, but | do know,
and Of this am sure, that to flood
! this with anything of lower stand
ard than the service set by Harvey
will be to make it another Coney Is
land.
Ny only regret is that the Grand
Canyon is not down south so we could
make the Harvey system across the
state a feature Of the states greatest
land best east and west national high
way "The Main Street Through ARR
zonap ap-Rodeo, New Mexico, to Yuma,
Arizona via Douglas, Bisbee, Tomp-
stone ard Tucson, but we can't have
all the good things down here. 1t is
we'll enough to have the only highway
open 365 days each year, Ell Paso to
San Diego and Los Angeles, but don't
stay away from the Grand Canyon
thinking you cannot afford it because
of misleading 'high price" propagan-
da.- Tombstone Epitaph.