The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-16
PREDICT HEAVY
TOURIST INCREASE.
MINNESOTA ARROWHEAD AS
ISOLATION GETTING MANY IN
QUIRIES REGARDING SUMMER
TOURIST BUSINESS.

With five times as many inquiries
coming in every day, as compared to
last year at this time, and nearly all
the resort keepers increasing the ca
pacity of their hotels and tourist &C
comodationS, officers of the Mime
sofa Arrowhead Association are look
ing forward to the greatest summer
tourist business in the history OF
Northern Minnesota.
Although there is considerable snow
on the ground and many of the trails
to popular lakes and streams will be
unpaSsable for some time to come, an
average of ten inquiries are coming
in daily to the Arrowhead Offices from
all sections of America A year ago
at this time less than ten inquiries
were received each week, according to
the association.
During 1927 there were 207 900 tour
lists, who visited the Arrowhead coun-
try, spending approximately $4,000
600, Arrowhead officials estimated,
while present indications are that the
total for 1928 will easily pass the 300.-
600 mark and may possibly reach 400
600 before the end of the season.
Should the popularity of the Ar
rowhead country in the Eastern and
Southern states continue to grow dur
ing the next two years, as it has
since 1926, Mr. Vibert is of the belief
that the half-million tourist total will
be reached by 1880.
From almost every state in the
Union inquiries are coming for resort
booklets, the Arrowhead tour pamph-
let, roads and maps of this area. The
courtesy cards sent out last summer
to residents of Oklahoma are now
coming back in large numbers, show
ing that many of the residents of that
state have laid plans to visit the Ar
rowhead country sometime during
1873
Special pamphlets and booklets are
now being prepared for national dis
tribution by local boat lines and bus
companies and well known American
touring bureaus that are including
the Arrowhead in their special sum-
mer trips.
Several railroads have written for
large supplies of literature, stating
that they, too, have received numer-
GUS inquiries about the Arrowhead and
Minnesota Lakes.
In May the Arrowhead Association
will again hold large exhibit at the
Outdoor exposition at Chicago, car
rying the story of Americas greatest
summer playground" to several humid
red thousand men and women, who
visit this famous indoor show each
spring. In addition, special Arrow
head information booths will be OPP
Grated at three national and interna-
tional conventions at Minneapolis
this summer, urging delegates and
their families to visit the Arrowhead
before and after their gatherings.
These are the Rotary international,
June 18 to %; National Educational
Association, June 80 to July Z, and
American Medical Association, June
IL to 15 Close to 10000 persons will
attend the three conventions it is esti-
mated.
Special invitations TO Rotarians all
over the world will be sent out shortly
by the Rotary clubs of the Arrowhead
country, asking them to visit this
area before or after the convention in
Minneapolis. Fifty thousand of these
invitations are to be sent out, Mr.. Vib-
ert said
Recently the Arrowhead Association
raised a fund of $4,000 in Northeast
ern Minnesota to carry on its four
square program of development, in
Guiding summer recreation, agricul-