The Winslow mail., 1925-09-01
THREE TOURIST
HOTELS NORTH
PART OF STATE

Plans for the erection of a chain
of tourist hotels in Arizona at an
estimated cost of $1,000, 200 were
revealed in an order issued last
week by the Arizona Corporation
Commission granting the Arizona
Wonder Circuit Tours a certificate
authorizing the operation of pas
senger and baggage stages in con-
nection with the establishments.
The hotels, four in number, are
to be located in various parts of
the state and will be designed to
cater to the tourists, winter visitors
to Arizona, and those desiring
scenic tours. The stage line is to
be operated for the purpose of
carrying the guests from one hotel
to another and to conduct them on
sightseeing tours Of the state.
The largest hotel of the chain is
to be located in the Salt River val
ley near Phoenix, according to the
order of the commission granting
the certificate to the Arizona Won
der Circuit Tours. The hotels are
to be built and operated by the
Arizona Hotel and Transportation
company, it is stated
The Salt River valley hotel will
contain seventy-five rooms and a
number of five-room bungalows
and will be built on the Spanish
hacienda plan. 1t is to be operated
only five months of the year and
will be closed during the summer
months. 1t will be operated for the
winter visitors to the valley and
will have a golf course, a polo field,
and horse cOrrals. 1t is to be To-
Gated on plot of ground on which
the company now has an option.
The second largest hotel will be
Peaks near Flagstaff and will have
sixty rooms The style of archi-
lecture of this hotel will be de-
signed to carry out the mountain
atmosphere and the hotel will be
operated only during the summer
ployes will be used in both the Salt
River valley hotel and the Flag
staff hotel.
A White mountain lodge on Buff
falo creek in the heart of the big
game region in Arizona to accom-
modate fifty guests will be built
and operated as a mountain camp
and hunting lodge during the
summer and fall months, while the
fourth hotel will be an all-year
camping lodge near Pine in the
Tonic Basin, and will accommo-
date twenty campers. 1t will be
operated as dude ranch, with a
western atmosphere and specializ-
ing in motor and pack trips to
scenic points in that region, includ-
ing the Natural Bridge, the Mogol-
Ion Rim and other points, and to
be operated the year around.
Under the terms of the certificate
granted to the Arizona Wonder Cir
cult Tours, the company can not
engage in the regular tfanspOrta-
tion of passengers, but must fur
nish a transportation service to
meet. the requirements of the pa
irons of the chain hotels. Such a
service, the commission states, will
not interfere with any of the regu
lar scheduled stage lines in the
state. The new company proposes,
the border states, to operate motor
cars, motor trucks, motor coaches
and passenger coaches.
The company will be allowed un-
der the certificates to operate
stages for the patrons of the chain
hotels from Phoenix to Globe and
Miami via the Apache Trail and
the Roosevelt Dam or the Superior
Miami highway, from Roosevelt to
Pine and Payson, from Globe to
Springerville and through the
northern part of the state to points
of interest, including the Grand
Canyon, the Painted Desert, the
Petrified Forest, and other points,
and from Flagstaff to Phoenix via
Prescott and Wickenburg. Under
the terms of the certificate, the
company may operate over a part
of the route named or over the en-
tire route, as may be occasioned by
the desires of patrons.