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Show Used, and then the States in which they are situated ought to see that good roads are made, so the tourists can visit them. ' . " Little Lake .Tahoe, through which the line which divides California from . Nevada runs, is a lovelier lake than Lake Como, and yet we suspect that of all the people east of the Rocky mountains in the United States one would find ten who could tell them all about Lake Como to one who could tell-them that there was such a place as Lake Tahoe on the map. Old Rainier is about as grand a mountain as Mont Blanc, and a little trip to Alaska, which can be done in great comfort in three weeks, will show a glacier that will make, the biggest one in Switzerland look like an ordinary icehouse. . . The West is a rich country, rich in mines and rich in soil, but one of the most marvelous and permanent sources of. wealth for the West will "be its scenery, when the country understands what it is and when roads are made so the people can take it -in. . SCENERY THAT PAYS. Switzerland in the last fifty-five years had an increase in-crease in the private wealth of the country from $2,000,000,000 to $3,400,000,000. And the way it has - been done has been, first, through the scenery of Switzerland, and second, through the advertising - " tb'af that country has put out. It is said that New Hampshire draws about $2,-000000 $2,-000000 a year from tourists who go to visit Mount Washington. These facts ought to supply guod hints to, the men of the "West.' The grand places in the STest ought to be-eiBgled out and specially adver- |