The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-12
PARK PARAGRAPHS

Gardiner to-day FRIDAY, January IL
on his way to Waterloo, Iowa. wher
he intends to spend the remainder o
the winter. Assistant Superintendent
d. E. Sawyer is left in charge at head
quarters.
On the 9th ult., the wind got
swelled up his cheeks and blew ;
ten thousand horse power gale dowi
Golden G ate. o. Swanson was com
PEELED to fall back with his mountain
army and seek shelter among the
Limestone Hoodoos.
Alfred McMartine is the latest arri
val at Mammoth Hot Springs. He
was scaler for Chas. f. Hobart 1T the
National Park Improvement com.
pany's mills last winter and summer.
He went down to Kansas on the out.
look for real estate. but became home
sick for the mountains and geysers
and had to come back. lie is again
in the employment of his old friend
Mr.. Hobart.and sings, ''My home is in
the mountains and not on the plain,
glad to be back in Montana again.
David Dobson, some time ago was
passing through Crevice Greek can
yon. westof Gardiner. with SIX pack
horses. They were following each
other Indian file, fastened together by
a rope to keep them in line. One Of
the animals stumbled and fell down
the precipice, drawing three Others
after him. They rolled over and over
like SO many boulders obeying the law
Of gravitation. Poor Dave was in a
sad fix, but he, cut the packs loose
and got the poor animals back on to
the bride path. having TO abandon
his load. and was glad to get out with
his animals alive. This is the same
David who carried the Cooke City
mail twice last winter by following
the bed of Soda Butte creek, often
thigh deep in water from the Butte to
Cooke.
The new double track road from the
Terraces to Swan lake by the way of
Golden Gate is the commencement of
Il grand system of park roads that will
be Il credit to the United States, and
will, when completed, be Il heavenly
road for mules and horses. as COM
pared with that by way Of He'll Gate.
1t is true, we have been taught that
the road to and through He'll Gate is
the broad and easy way and that many
90 In thereat. But when team can
haul 4 ton easier by the Golden Gate
Than it can haul an empty wagon the
other way, there can be no doubt
which road will attract even sinners
who are not also fools. The road to
iades, (that is the revised name.
5 supposed to be down hill all the
way, but both roads into the New
jerusalem, (the revised name for the
National Park are Slightly up hill
md the less hi, no hill. the better.
The government work will be sus-
,ended in the National Park Gil the
9th. Work will be resumed as 500
S congrass decides what amount shall |
'e expended in the park of parks and |
he wonder of wonders owned by this
alton of nations, Lieut.. klngman.
ark engineer. estimates that $3.50, 900 I
ill construct Il double tract wagon
Dad around the park from and to
fammoth Hot Springs by the way of
Torris Basin, Upper Geyser Basin.
'ellowstone lake and the Grand Falls.
Vhen this road is completed, other
,ads will he needed to new and un.
scoyered portions of the Park.
here ara more than one hundred and
'ty objects of Wonder and beauty at !
le Springs. of (which tourists seldom
e more than twenty-five. The rea.
n is because there are no well
arked pathways and finger boards
'inting theway to innumerable caves. !;
'ols, subterranean chambers, pulsat- ,
z geysers and terraces. all more s
arvelous than the widest imagina- y
N can conceive or the most elegant :
ngne or pen describe. Col. J.B.
ough, engineer Of the II. II. r. r., a
ggested that q good topograpllerl 9
ght to he employed by the United !