Arizona republican., 1898-03-28

besides improving the fertility of the soil-A1bert Rogers, in Coleman's Rural World.
 THE YELLOWSTONE PARK.
 Plans for the Coming Senson-
 Young's Warfare on the Poacchers.
 Livingston, Mon., March 27.-The snow in the Yellowstone National Park is still many feet deep in the mountains and in all the Teton region. Arrangements are already under way however, that will provide very diff ferent outlook for the tourist in the park senson of 1898 from that of 1897.
 During the closed senson Col. Youn g has made life burden to poachers, so much so that the renegades and out laws of the Jackson Hole and other l Wyoming districts have threatened his life. They have been more energeti- cally pursued and more severely pun ished than ever before. As a conse- quence the outlaws have gone hungry and game has got drought the winter in excellent shape. Col. Young's en- deavors to have the boundaries of the park extended on every side to nat ural rather than artificial limits means blow to these poachers worse than any other. If he is successful, the Jackson Hole country will cease to be resort for outlaws in the west, and park game can no longer be driven there in herds for slaughter. At pres ent the summits of the Tetons rise far south of the park boundaries, but here after they will be included, and the few men who have travelled form the park to the Tetons have many stories to tell of wonders there. These in clude geysers and geyser formations, canons painted by nature as vividly as those of the upper Yellowstone, mag nif1cent petrifactions in forest and an- imal life, and splendid game preserves The remaining extensions will add to the park many features of interest.
 new Fort Yellowstone will greet the tourist of 1898. The dingy walls of the old fort are giving place to a handsome and commodious structure set in the valley over against the Nam moth Hot Springs Hotel at the park entrance. Probably several new ho- tels will be found at points of interest hitherto inaccessible to any travellers but the few fortunate enough to have their own vehicles Roads will be built to these and a region opened that will lengthen form five days to seven the full grand round" of the park stage trip. More attention is to be paid to bicycle travel than ever be- fore. and new roads and old will have facilities for this class of travel. Per mission to operate stages has been given to transportation companies in addition to the old Park Transporta- tion monopoly, and at least two full lines of stages will be in operation. Arrangements are being made for mak- ing entrances to the park at other points than Cinnabar, and it is quite likely that hte monopoly always en- joyed by the Northern Pacific Rail- road. the only line to reach the park, will be broken in short time.
 The National Park is intended for something besides the pleasure of the tourists who are taken through it dur ing three summer months One of it's important purposes is to preserve form extinction some of the game ami mals of the west
 Work in this line was begun almost too late to save the buffalo. but there are now there immense herds of elk. numbering probably 10000 head. and there are probably nearly as many an telopes. Beavers. once nearly wiped out are reappearing in the streams: bears are too plenty for comfort; DOT | cup1nes, foxes, lynXes. and other small animals are very plentiful and tame Wolves and coyotes. of course. flourish altogether too well. It is now pro- posed to kill off enough of the coyotes to prevent their hunting in packs and | to drive them out of the park. The wolves present problem that has not yet been solved. A number of expert | trackerS. hunters and game-keepers, mostly in the military service, are em- ployed at the park. Their duty is to break up pcaching. It takes not only a brave man. but a clever hunter to catch a poacher. He must know the habits of the animals as well as the poacher himself Many men have for years made business of hunting on the national preserves, selling the horns, hides and where possible the meat also, on the outskirts A buff falo skin, formerly worth s1, is now almost unattainable for money: buf- falo head is worth form s250 to $500; elk horns bring from s25 to s100 pair; beaver fur is valuable, and so is fox and lynx. The temptation for the poacher is great, for the shooting, if he can escape Col. Young's men. is easy But this spring fresh horns and skins are very scarce in the towns near the park.
 NOTICE OF BIDS.