The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-24
AUTO TOURIST
TRAVEL BRINGS
LARGBRETURNS
Denver Man Tells of Great
Dividends Derived From
Auto Travellers
BUSINESS PROPOSITION
Prospective Investors and
HOmeseekers Visit State
on Pleasure Trips
BUSINESS PROPOSITION

value OF tourist traVel 10 state
and community was explained and
suggestions on how to direct auto
travellers through North Dakota
were given by Harry N. Burhans. ex.
ecutive secretary OF the tourist and
Chamber of Commerce, in an address
delivered at the open forum of the
Bismarck Association Of Commerce
last night at the Grand Pacific no.
tel, which was attended by more than
100 men and women of Bismarck and
Mandan.
Merchandising Scenery and Gil
mate" was the subject OF Mr.. Bur
hans address. Tourist travel is
really an industry" the speaker
said, land bringing tourists and
prospective investors to North Da-
kota is a business proposition and
should be looked upon with the same
care and consideration that is given
to merchandising goods. Money
spent by tourists in Colorado last
year equalled six times the gold out
put of the state and Denver mer-
chants say that August, formerly
the poorest retail sales month, now
is next to December, the best. Den
vers share OF the tourist returns for
ldSL year is COHScINutlNSly SoIi"os
ed at $l2 100000.
one Of the paramount factors in
auto travel is the state automobile
association. Another is transcontin
entail highways. North Dakota has
an excellent automobile association
and one that | am happy to say
stands high in the travel world
Mr.. Burnans told of the facts new
to him that he got from reading Ii
teratuy, put out by the North Da-
kota Automobile Association. He
said that he was surprised to learn
that North Dakota stands first among
the states in home owners and pro-
duction of hard wheat and that this
state has immense coal deposits. He
said that if each community in the
state would gather historical data
and that it would be published in
continuity in tourist guide it
would be a great asset to North Da-'
lota in securing tourist travel.
Service to the traveller is another
thing. he said, necessary to securing
tourist travel. The auto camp and
he declared. I'VE started with free
camps and it was necessary then
that they be free" Mr. Burhans said,
but now the time has come when
the traveller should pay for service
he receives, as he must pay for SER
vice in hotel or on train. Auto
camp service and camp charges
should be standardized and nation
wide conference will soon be held
when this important thing will be
done.
Free camps encourages the class
of travel that is not wanted. The
auto tourist business, like every 9TH
err business, has its undesirable class
and this class will be largely elimin-
ated with the universal charge"
Mr.. Burhans warned against the
CRATER. He recited examples of So
called tourist associations that got
out tourist guides and maps for
which they received huge sums Of
money from communities, but the
declared that no merchant and no
community should spend one cent
for publicity without approval from
the state automobile association.
Mr.. Burhans declared that the OBJ
iect of, his trip to the northwest is
to talk over plans for cooperation.
The only way we can get along is
by cooperation, he declared. He said
that a plan can be worked out for
an interchange of tourist travel.
"Denver will be glad to handle North
Dakota literature and a plan can be
worked out for interchange of ira
vel. We will do all we can to route
tourists through Yellowstone Park
and North Dakota when they have
made the trip one way over anoth-
er route" he said.
"When our boys went over on the
other side to fight they were all call
ed "Yanks" whether they were from
Maine or California" Mr.: Burhans
said. "And so now there is no east
or west. north or south. We are all
one.
C. E. Danielson of Minot, president
of the North Dakota Automobile as
sociation, made brief address. eve
who live in North Dakota know what
q great state it is and the many op-
portunities here for h0meseekers, but
until recently we made no effort to
get the stream of auto traffic to go
through the state SO that the ad-
vantages might be made known in
that way throughout the country.
The North Dakota Automobile Asso-
citation has been organized only a
few years but we have gotten out
maps, tourist guides and other. liter
ature and have brSught thousands
Of tourists into the state. The count
will 60 up if we 60 after the tour
lists and that is what the North Da-
kota Association intends to do. We
are affiliated with the National Au-
tomobile Association and our litera-
ture is distributed in all parts of
the United States.
"We know that many of those who
come this way as tourists in the
summer months will come back as
settlers and thatis the reason we are
trying to sell the auto tourist idea
to the people of the state"
Dinner was served at 6:45 and the
speeches followed. Attorney General
George Shafer introduced the speak
ers. George Humphrey led COM
munity singing.
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