Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-06-11 | Page 44 | Auto Tourists Break Record

IAUTO TOURISTS BHEJjKflEGORO More Pass Through Here Now Than Ever Before, Says ; Prank BofterilL NUMBER WILL INCREASE AS SUMMER PROGRESSES Company Makes Specialty of Collecting Valuable Data as to Roads. More automobile tourists are coming to Salt Lake this yonr than ever before. According to the best information obtainable, not less than one car a day is coming into the city from the east or west, without taking into consideration consider-ation at all the large number of automobiles auto-mobiles owned in the intcrmountain region re-gion which are continually making trips about the couutiy. The indications are that the number will bo greatly increased in the summer. sum-mer. Frank Botterill. manager of the Tom Iiotiorill Automobile company, 1 who has made a specialty of collecting road information on the. country be- tween Denver and the Pacific coast, . raid yesterday that he had ne-cr before had so 111:1 iiv requests from all over for this information as he has been having latelv. ' "jv early every mail brings a letter from somebody who wants to know the best wav to 'come by automobile to Salt Lake City," said Mr. Botterill yesterday. yes-terday. "They come from as far west, as the Pacific coast and as far oast as New England. In fact, I have had one letter from Honolulu and another from Montreal. II "The published guides give the roads ' pretty completely as far west as Denver, Den-ver, but there has been nothing complete com-plete and accurate published as yet on the roads west of Denver, and as a result re-sult a largo number of tourists from the east have not been coming beyond Col-' Col-' "This year more of them are taking '., tho trip a? far as Salt Lake City, and I we have good information on the road between here and Denver. Most of the distance tho road is easy to follow, al-I al-I though there is one stretch in Wvpming, I near Medicine How, where a person is likelv to get lost unless he has careful j directions. "Wo have now complete information ! on the roads between Salt Lake and Ely. Salt Lake and Idaho Palls, and Salt Lake and San Francisco, so that these trips arc becoming more popular. A large number of persons have written writ-ten us that thov intend coming east ,1)3' ; automobiles from California, and there i; is also a big movement from tho oast.,!