Washington County News | 1900-04-14 | Page 3 | Hotel Rates in Cape Town |

Type	issue
Date	1900-04-14
Paper	Washington County News
Language	eng
City	St. George
County	Washington
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Hotel Rates in Cape Town
Type	article
Date	1900-04-14
Paper	Washington County News
Language	eng
City	St. George
County	Washington
Page	3
OCR Text	Show Hotel Katea lu Cape Town. , A hundred pounds a month for a bed In a three-bedded room! Such Is 9 ample of the prices now prevailing in Cape Town. Some ladies in London who had been inquiring about prices a.nd accommodation were quoted aa ibove. According to the London correspondent cor-respondent of the Birmingham Gazette, they were told that they could be ac-tommodated ac-tommodated for a hundred pounds pet bed in a three-bedded room. Three hundred pounds a month for one room Is pretty steep. It means that hotel proprietors pro-prietors are coining money, and that a decent sized hotel In Cape Town is bringing in as good a revenue as a gold mine at Johannesburg.
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