Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 18 | Automobile Makes Laps Prosperous

Automobile Makes La Laps s' s Prosperous ABISKO Swedish Lapland Deo Dee 1 By A A. A P. P Santa p.-Santa Santa Claus Glaus will move southward this year ear with an unusually unusual unusual- ly fat and sleek lot of ot reindeer There was an on abundance of snow last winter win ter and rains have been frequent throughout the year In the mountain ranges over which the Laps herd their charges Consequently the tho mo moss moIlS s the climate scanty of l t the land nJ which north h s survives of r the hs lr Arc Arc- the tio circle and the small mall birch and shrubs have havo provided the reindeer with more than the average amount ot of forage travel The InCrease rease of tourist through Lapland as n. n result of new automobile roads has hns brought prosPerity prosperity pros pros- to many Laplanders Travelers Travelers Travel Travel- excursion ers are now leaving the tho ships at various points in the NorWegian Norwegian Norwegian Nor Nor- fiords fjords and inspecting the theland theland theland land of ot the midnight sun at close range Touring agencies have arranged arranged ar ar- ranged camps on many picturesque lakes overlooked by glaciers and venturesome von von- mountain climbers are wandering wandering wan- wan dering far away from the beaten trail Like American Indians the Laps are becoming more and more commercialized commercial commercial- In the line lino of travel Many of them f are t becoming professional Laps and they reap e a harvest in tourist o t tr season sea sea- son selling rn rne reindeer I d slippers r and r reindeer reindeer rein rein- deer clothing I to the visitors This has been an especially iy Rood good goodyear year for tor the Lapland souvenir dealers the tha far faa nort as steamer traffic Into assumed prewar e proportions P Even h the German m shipping companies re renewed i-c- i their excursions Into toe land Jand landof landof of the midnight sun Then n the Gothenburg th exposition at attracted attracted at- at large numbers of Americans and Englishmen who made the rail trip from south h Sweden to the tho n northern north north- em ern mountains g t whose 1 primitive re ren population lation afford such a striking contrast to the highly developed civilization and and culture of tha southern half halt haltof of the tho Q f. f i