The Coconino sun., 1927-08-05
New Hotel On
North Rim To
Open June |, '28

Arizona's newest million-dollar
tourist development enterprise, mark
ing the entrance of a third transcon-
tinental railroad into the field of adj
vertising Arizona sbeauties to the
vertising Arizona's beauties to the
lines in the state, will be in operation
next summer.
The new tourist attraction will be
the Union Pacific railroads big
hotel on the north rim OF the Grand
Canyon, announced only a short time
ago and now under construction An
nouncement that it will be completed
by June, 1928-the opening of the
next summer tourist seasons con-
tanned in a statement of its develop
ment plans which has been furnished
| by F. H. Knickerbocker, general man
ager of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake
railroad company of the "U. P" sys-
tenn, to the Arizona Industrial Con-
gress, Arizona's statewide develop
ment body.
The Union Pacific now has under
active construction on the north rim
of the Grand Canyon a main hotel
building, cabins, garage, chauffeur's
quarters and rest stations, and also
hydro-electric power plant, pipe line
and water reservoir, Mr.. Knicker-
booker advised the industrial congress.
The cost of these facilities will
amount to $750,000, and in order to
! hasten their completion the eonstruc-
tion work will be pushed through the
winter, caterpillar snow plows having
been acquired to keep the roads to the
north rim through the Kaibab forest
open during the winter months.
| The new Union Pacific hotel on the
north rim will be almost directly op-
posite Ell Tovar hotel on the south
rim, and new trails are being con-
structed from the north rim to the
floor of the canyon to connect with
| the trails from the south rim and
Phantom Ranch. In addition to OPEN
| ing up the north rim of the canyon
on scale far greater than ever be-
fore, the new lodge will give the
| Grand Canyon national park an un-
surpassed set of tourist accommoda-
| tions and facilities, as the national
park service is engaged in an extern
sive program of road and trail con-
struction and improvement on both
rims, and the Santa Fe-Harvey sys-
tenn is largely expanding its south
rim facilities.
The ~. P" entrance into the Ari-
zona tourist field is a sequel to it's
development Of tourist facilities serv-
ing Zion national park and Bryce
| Canyon in southern Utah, though it
is worthy of note that its expendi-
lures at the Grand Canyon will ex-
ceed the combined cost of its facilities
at those points. AS is the case with
Zion park and Bryce Canyon, it's
travel to the Grand Canyon will be
by motor stage from Cedar City, Utah,
and the three famous attractions may
be linked in loop tour embracing
some of the most scenic spots of
northern Arizona and southern. Utah.
The company's investment in motor
busses and trucks to serve that Sec
tion already totals 100000, Mr..
Knickerbocker stated, while $147,000
has been expended to provide tele-
phone connections linking the respec-
tive attractions.
Extension of the Union Pacific's
tourist development to the north rim
| in Arizona will automatically result
in bringing TO the state large num-
bers of travellers from the more
northerly routes, and coupled with
immediate construction of the Lees
Ferry bridge, making possible a
highway connecting the transcontin-
entail motor routes through Arizona
and Utah, it is expected to give added
| impetus to Northern Arizona's devel-
opment as national playground.