Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-11-15

D. M. Marine, secretary of the
Business & Professional club, and
John G. Skinner, city attorney,
were empowered and directed by
the council to secure an option for
the purchase of land necessary to
the selected site, and Mr.. Marine
was requested to prepare, with the
help of other council members and
citizens, plans and estimates of
the park, in order that an applica.
ton for construction funds may
be made to the federal public
works administration. Steps are
being taken to secure part of the
actual construction materials.
The site of the present city
tourist park was chosen as the To-
cation for the new park, that will
offer tourists Accommodations Sec
ond to none in the Northwest
which is no more than tourists
will have a right to expect at this
city. Other locations reported on
by the special committee, w. w,
Eastman, chairman, were disre-
garded in favor of the location on
the southern edge of the city, be-
side the new highway, which was
considered ideal by the council.
Driving toward an object that
has been strongly advocated late
ly by this newspaper, Mr.. Marine
and Mr.. Shelley for the previous
two or three days had been in
vestigating the possibilities site at
the southern end of Broadway, and
recommended it to the council. Mr.
Marine was able to give concrets
suggestions for the camp to be
built there, and the council asked
him to take a large share in plan
ming and directing the project.
Proximity to gas, water and
electricity and sewerage service
was given as n of the best reas-
ons for the location, as well as
the natural beauty of the wooded
area.
1t is planned to enlarge the city
park by purchase of a dozen lots
adjoining the present camp. Pre-
liminiary maps were shown the
councilmen by Mr.. Marine, who
explained how the park could be
enlarged to permit building of the
modern camp that is intended. The
city camp now occupies the space
west of the Cooke highway be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty-first
streets. This area would be ex.
tended north and possibly west.
Aldermen and other towns.
people at the meeting were agreed
that a first rate tourist camp
would be an Improvement to that
section of the city, and would in.
crease the value of property il
the vicinity.
"Now is the time to accomplish
this. If. we wait until the tourisi
travel on the new highway be
comes an actuality, we would b'
voting bonds, trying to get money
by popular subscription-anythinf
to build and provide the n~ecessar!
Accommodations here. We've got II
do this, in order to benefit from
the highway, and we might al
well do it with the help of thu
public works act" said o. H. P
Shelley in an address to the coun
Gil.
He read an appeal recent.
broadcast by Secretary Of the In
terror Harold Ickes, urging munic
qualities to avail themselves of th'
funds and services of the publ,
works administration, and re
marked that "Red Lodge canno
afford to let this opportunity pas
by"
"For eight or nine years." SAT-
Mr.. Marine, I'VE worked and spen
money in the effort to secure thii
new highway, for one reason ant
another, but we admitted that on
of the biggest reasons was tina
we wanted the tourist business
The job isn't done. If we fail t
!, provide some reason and mean
for travellers to pause in thi
, town, then the highway will be
! loss, and travellers will pass u,
this town like a pay a going pas
a tramp.
! eve spent 80 cents Of the dol
1 lar in getting this road built. w
=, can't afford to let the whole thin
: go to waste because we are afrai
' to spend the other measly dime t
t put in a decent tourist park, tina
! any self respecting city should OF
8 fer in our situation.
!, even if we got stuck with
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