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HALF MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL WILL ESTABLISH TUCSON AS PLAY GROUND OF THE NATION
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Outside Capitalists Back Big Project, and Local Representative, General L. H. Manning, Seeks Suitable Site; Will Be Equal of Any Tourist Hotel of Country and Plans Specify Grounds Embracing 200 Acres for Golf Course and Other Amusement Facilities for Guests; Will Fill ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s Greatest Need

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A tourist hotel to cost not less than $500,000 that will be the equal in appointments of any which have made coast and South Atlantic resorts famous and put them on the pastime map, will be erected in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ by outside capital provided a suitable site can be secured.

General Manning, president of the chamber of commerce, let it be known yesterday that the capitalists who plan this big hotel have enlisted his efforts and that the matter had already reached the state where a site was being sought.

Assurance was also given that the capitalists are in earnest and that when a site is secured the project will immediately take form. While the details of the business preliminaries were not made public there was no attempt to hide the fact that the chamber of commerce regards the proposition as about the most important thing that has ever promised to come ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s way and that if the hotel is secured it will without question establish this city as the prime winter resort of the country.

Holding this view it may be believed that no stone will be left unturned—and none that should be left unturned will be so much as jarred—by General Manning, who is acting as agent of the capitalists in the preliminary stages of the matter. It is hoped that the course of these preliminaries will be such that a definite announcement may be made within a few days, or in a few weeks at the outside.

It was also stated that the plans of the capitalists who have at last appreciated the value of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s winter climate, embraces project a hotel that will be second to none in accommodations, appointments and facilities for the amusement of its guests. The latter will include a golf course, parks, tennis courts, boulevards, garages, etc. When it is stated that the capitalists desire about 200 acres for the hotel grounds the immensity of the project may be imagined. For a site for the half million dollar hotel the promoters will expend at least a hundred thousand dollars. The improvement of the 200-acre grounds surrounding the hotel and other incidentals will probably bring the final cost up near the million mark.

Should the plans of the hotel promoters go through without a hitch—and none has developed so far, it is assured—it will be the first fruit of years of advertising of "ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s climate" but it will be fruit of such a kind that not even the most optimistic booster had hoped for.

It is fitting, too, that General Manning should be instrumental in pulling this plum for ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, for years ago e saw the possibilities of this city as a winter resort and he was most active in the bringing of the Santa Rita hotel here, which was the pioneer modern hotel of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. For years General Manning has preached in season and out of season—if there were such a calendarical division in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s climate—the need for more and better hotel facilities.

The coming of the Espee railroad marked one era for ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and the establishment of a half million dollar tourist hotel here will definitely establish ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ as the winter playground of the wealthy folk of the United States, marking the beginning of another era.