Show ROAD 0 BUILDING TOURIST BUSINESS GROWING RAPIDLY Because the American people have almost overnight ov r nIght developed Into a nation on wheels the tourist busIness has become one ot of the rea really 11 big IndustrIes ins In- of the co country In fact there ore are more automobiles In the United States than there th are telephones and that people are getting the habit of using their cars for sight seeing par pur- pos poses s Is proved by the reports from varIous scenIc centers Wealth In quantity Is spent where the tourists ts go It Is a spot cash proposition and If positive figures c could uld Ue be secured cured E ns ns' ns to the amount of mone money spent spent every ery year by motor tourIsts the total would undoubtedly be surprIsIng Take California for fot example ThIs state has grown to be bethe bethe the wealthy commonwealth It t now Is largely because or of a farsighted plan laid out some years ago for attracting tourIst traffic to the state and then holding It Prior to the San Diego and San Francisco expositions Call CaU laid n a gre great t mileage of concrete boulevard fifteen feet wide and tour four Inches thIck The state engIneers knew at the time that the roads weren't thick enough to hold the future fu fu- ture heavy henvy traffic and so officially termed the pavement concrete base planning later to put on a top sur sur- face In 1015 the state laid miles mUes of thIs road Today California has about miles ot of permanent concrete con con- crete creto road to delight the tourIst What thIs good roads program meant to California Is shown by the records of the various tourIst bureaus The California State Automobile association association tion estimates that there were approximately approxImately ap ap- proxImately tourIsts during rte gL Scene Along the tho Hudson River 1023 who spent no an average of 10 per day p per r person durIng on an average stay of thirty days This This' would place the total ot of new money put Into dr- dr In California by tourIsts In one year at about There has hns been a steady Increase In motor tourIsts during the past few years In 1 1020 0 but motor tourist cars entered en en- the state ThIs Increased to In l 1021 21 and to In 1 1923 23 The state ot of WashIngton with Its one thousand miles ot of concrete roads Is also comIng In for Its share of tourIsts The Seattle chamber of commerce commerce com com- merce states that in 10 the month of June thIs year cars from thirty American states Alaska HawaII and other places entered Blaine on the way to British Columbia In 1023 some cars regIstered for tor entry Last year the DominIon parks branch Ot- Ot tawa tawa Canada estimated the tourist tr traffic In Canada worth In Colorado there were campers In the auto camps ot of the state In 1023 l The state ot of Iowa has over tourist camps at various towns and each cities attracting Its Ita quota of motor wanderers On oa August 13 13 the tourist welcome bureau of Milwaukee WIs registered motor tourists which Is estimated at only about sixth one of those passIng pass pass- Ing through The tourist business In Inthis inthis this state Is regarded so hIghly that boy scouts patrol the highways leadIng lead lead- lag Ing Into Milwaukee acting as guIdes for the Incoming tourists Wisconsin Is especially attractive to the motor gypsy because of Its 1700 miles of concrete highway and Its fine tern ot of road marking The 2500 miles of concrete In NewYork New hew York state has also been a drawing card for motorists It Is estimated that In the Finger lakes region alone over ocr motorists passed through I last year ear spending on as an average of 10 each per day The principal attraction at at- traction there Is scenery and good chambers ot of corn coma roads The thirty merce In the Finger Lakes tion which was tanned formed five years ago ogo took active part In having approximately ap- ap proximately worth ot of hard surfaced roads put on the construction ro program am for the next few years vears |