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Show OGDEN LOSING THE AUTOMOBILE TOURIST. The Elko Free Press admits that automobile travel is being di-'crted di-'crted from the route which leads through Elko to the southern oad by way of Ely. The Nevada paper explains the loss in the fol-owing fol-owing : The natural way for transcontinental tourists to go through Nevada is hrough Elko. Yet, naturally favored, as v;e are, only a small per cent of .he travel is coming this way, and all we havo to do to lose It entirely is .0 romaln Inactive and continue to lie in our blissfully Indlfferont state. A few days ago one of our citizens, in conversation with Senator Eaa-:on Eaa-:on of Austin, learned that thero was an averago of five touring cars laily passing that place, most of them going by way of Ely. This is ro-J2.rdless ro-J2.rdless of the fact that it is approximately ninety miles further over that oad than by way of Elko. What is the reason? While wo have been doing nothing to Induce tourists to come thlo way, and have depended on the, advantages offered by nature, other counties coun-ties have been conducting a campaign of advertising, have placed in the hands of tourists loggings of their roads, and have placed guide posts along their public highway. From Salt Lake City to Los Angeles the road is logged and sign posts have been erected by way of Ely, which of course iliverts the travol from the natural course that is, from Elko Other counties throughout the state have placed guide posts for the benefit of travolers, and this, if nothing more, should be dono at once In this county. It could be done with little expense, and It would bring many motorists this way By degrees the road could afterwards be logged, and there Is not a doubt that In a short time we would rcallzo tho necessity of a first-class highway across the state. Every automobile tourist following the Ely route is a tourist lost to Ogdeu as well asElko, and, therefore, our interests and those d the eastern Nevada metropolis are identical in this matter. "W'e must follow the example of the Omaha good roads boosters by sending send-ing a party of Ogdcn men west from here to Reno, Nevada, to stir up interest in the making of better roads and the careful marking of the same bj' the placing of guide posts. A determined effort, in a quite way,, is being made to throw the overland automobile traffic to the routo south of the lake and on west through Ely. This scheming to get Ogden off the automobile automo-bile map should be met by a campaign of vigorous co-operative boosting boost-ing by Ogden, Brigham, Gorinne, Tremonton Snowville, Montello, Wells, Elko and every town west of here to the California line whose welfare is involved. This automobile traffic is worth having, as it is growing and will be most important during the world's fair year. If it is worth having, then let us go after it with vigor before too late. |