The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
TOURISTS Are
COMING DAILY
Arrowhead Association Reports
Indicate Large Influx of
Summer Vacationists.

Formal opening of the 1884 tourist
season in the Minnesota Arrowhead
country over Memorial Day was marked
by the largest enrolment of visitors in
five years.
Although hotel and resort owners
usually receive their first tourists
around Memorial Day, when the travel
season gets under way, reports re-
ceived at the headquarters of thesM Min
nesota Arrowhead association in Duluth
indicate a record number of motorists,
fishermen and vacationists during the
entire month of May. Many of the
resorts opened from two weeks to a
month earlier than usual, because of
the advance reservations, with the Off
cial opening forcasting the heaviest
season in several years.
The Arrowhead information bureau
has opened for the summer, while the
1884 tourist rates are now in effect on
entering this city. Duluth is now listed
as an excursion point, with the entire
Arrowhead country included in the low
fare schedule extending as far as the
Southwest and the Pacific coast.
TouSands of visitors at the Chicago
fair last year and this summer are
expected to visit the Arrowhead country,
being attracted to this national summer
playground by the unusual amount of
advertising given this region at the
Minnesota exhibit. Inquiries received
at the headquarters here from pros
pective visitors have broken all records
to date, indicating an unprecedented
movement to this area, according to s..
v. Saxby, executive secretary of the
Arrowhead association.
The early hot spell throughout the
Northwest in May brought many of the
early motor parties, while fishermen
have been filling the resorts at the
northern lakes and streams almost
daily for the past two weeks.
Resort owners met in Duluth recently
to enroll under the national hotel code
and to make plans for handling the host
of tourists expected to visit the Arrow
head country during the next four
months.
The Arrowhead Country, Minnesota's
nationally known summer playground,
will be in the spotlight at the Chicago
Worlds Fair again this summer
Although Minnesota will not be repre-
sented in the Hall of States, as it was
last year, arrangements have been
made to have large display in the
Travel and Transport building, with
considerable space to be devoted to the
Arrowhead, George H Crosby, president
of the association, announced.
Thousands of maps, resort directories
and road guides will be distributed at
the booth, while a special attendant
will be on duty there at the time, Mr.
Crosby said.
Special road signs have been placed
on all highways leading from Chicago to
the Arrowhead country, while photo
graphs of scenes and advertising will
be placed in the metropolitan news
papers in the central and southwestern
states inviting all Worlds Fair visitors
to come to the Arrowhead after their
stay in Chicago.
''The Arrowhead Country will again
make a strong bid for Worlds Fair
tourists" MIR. Crosby said. I'VE will
make every effort to interest the visitors
in the famous wilderness resorts, fish
ing lodges, motor tours and Federal
conservation camps in our region.
Prospects have never been better and
we are looking forward to the best
tourist year in the Arrowhead since
1929"