, 1925-06-04

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an attractive illustrated bookle
of the most outstanding scenic
booklets will be distributed in the
key cities commanding entrances
into Wyoming and mailed to prospec-
tive tourists in an effort to persuade
them to get acquainted with the
wonderful scenery of Wyoming, in
form them correctly of the splendid
highways in the state II urge them
to take advantage of the all-Wyoming
circle tour through the Yellowstone
National Park of "in one way and
out the other"
All present at the meeting agreed
to boos for a mighty caravan of l.
600 cars or more to attend the first
annual meeting of the club to be
held jointly with the Wyoming Press
Association at the Mammoth Hot
Springs in the Yellowstone National
Park early next August, definite
dates to be announced later. This
winding caravan of gaily decorated
cars will assemble in Lander and
then proceed to the Park over the
splendid highway to Two-Gwo-Tee
Pass skirting the shores of the
Brooks and Jackson Lakes in the
Jackson Hole country with the snow
crowned peaks of the towering Te-
on ever in sight. From the
Southern Entrance it will proceed in
a ~leisurely manner to the Mammoth
Hot Springs Hotel, stopping briefly
on the way at various points of in
terest to view the many wonders of
the greatest park in the world.
AT Mammoth a permanent organi-
cation of the Wyoming Motor Club
will be launched with the idea of
selling Wyoming to the world. De-
parture from the Park will be made
through the Eastern Entrance down
the beautiful Shoshoni Canyon with
its fairylaud scenery to Cody where
the caravan viii break up and scat
ter to the four n of the state.
Every enthusiastic booster for Wyo-
ming is invited to join the process
sion. Citizens of Lander and Cody
will make the occasion Of the cara
vans visit to the respective towns
gala days and provide grand jam
borees in honor of the event.
Pioneers of a later day viii be this
mighty cavalcade of horseless car
riages gliding smoothly over mag
nificent highways riyaling the pave
ments of a city in contrast to the
w~eary-worn, travel-stained pioneers
of an earlier age who treked slowly
over winding trails fording swift
flowing mountain streams through a
country inhabited by hostile savages
in covered wagons drawn by patient
~plodding oxen with their necks bowed
to heavy yokes and prodded on and
ever on by determined men and
women fired with the unconquerable
urge to found a new empire in which
they might have o to carve out
their own homes and have a part in
its upbuilding.
Something of this pioneer spirit
peryaded the meeting held in Casper
Friday when the newly elected vice
president. w. +. Wilkerson, in taking
the chair declared that II will be the
chief object and aim OF the club to
sell Wyoming first TO itself and then
to the world, to interest everybody
first as a tourist in the unsurpassed
scenic beauty OF the widely scatter
ed sections of the state and later to
invite them to become settlers and
aid in the development of our vast
areas OF virgin soil for agriculture.
engage in the stock business and as
sist in the development OF our un-
limited natural resources OF metal
mines. coal and petroleum. His re-
marks were greeted with enthusiastic
applause.
II was practically an all-day meet
ing. While IL was called primarily
as n meeting OF the executive COM
mittee chosen by the county directors
of the different highway engineering
districts OF the state at meetings held
throughout the state or May 3, II
was in reality n general meeting as
no one was barred from attending
or participating in the proceedings.
At the morning session organization
plans were discussed informally. At
the afternoon session plans were dis
cussed for aiding the Worland State
Corn Show, the Casper Poultry and
Pure Seed Show and the Wyoming
State Fair at Douglas.
The evening session was called to
order by Charles II. Stafford secre-
tary OF the Casper Chamber OF Com
merce. who briefly stated the object.
No time was lost in getting down to
business. II was decided To com
pleto the temporary organization an
nounced at the meeting OF the Fed
Grated Clubs OF the Big Horn Basin
held n few weeks ago at Thcrmopolis.
Temporary officers were then chosen
as follows: President. l.. l.. Newton.
publisher of the Wyoming State
Journal Mt Lander. vice-prcsident. w.
+. Wilkorson. OF Casper. president OF
the Wyoming Automotiye Company.
and sccrctary-trcasurer. A. J. Hax-
lett. publisher OF the Inland OIL In
dox.
In order to take advantage OF the
tourist soason this year. y publicity
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