The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-05
question is liable to come up at any

question is liable to come up at any
time.
The following estimates for impre We
ments have been included in the itlCrt /.
New road in Gardiner canyon. includ-
ing three steel bridges. 100000 road
through Golden Gate canyon. including
new steel bridge to replace the wood
en- bridge around cliff. and widening
road along cliff, the latter all solid
rock, $4,000: raising three miles of road
IN Gibbon canyon and cutting out one
mile OF dangerous grades, also opening
four miles of new road down the Glib
bon to connect with western approach,
slboo0; completion Of eight miles of
road near Fountain hotel, SIS, 600; COM
pletion of southern approach along
Snake river, 20 miles. $4,000; new road
from West Thumb to Natural bridge,
cutting out present line around lake
shore eight miles, $4,000; surfacing
new road from Lake hotel to Grand
canyon, is miles. $4,000; new bridge
across the Yellowstone near the falls.
$4,000; new road down right bank of
Grand canyon, three miles, $4,000; new
read near Grand canyon, to cut OFT
dangerous hills, $4,000: new road, Can
yon to Norris, 10 miles, $4,000; new
road, Grand canyon, via Tower falls,
to Mammoth hot springs, So miles, S12.-
600; new bridge over Yellowstone near
Tower falls, 100000: new bridge over
Lamar river, $4,000; completion of each
approach, Is miles, $15.0O0 new plant,
$4,000 new office and other buildings,
$4,000; current repairs and maintenance
for season of 1900, $4,000; new bridges
at various points (six needed at once),
SlZoo office, transportation and mis-
cellaneous expenses. 100000 there
should also be added for clearing out
ana rendering more easily passable the
numerous trails throughout the park,
which are essential to it's proper police
and protection, $1,000; total, $500, 900.
This work will have toi'be done at
some time, and it would cost about one
half to nave one appropriation cover
the whole. The amount appears large
when compared with the usual annual
appropriation, but in the end it would
be measure of economy for the gov
eminent to appropriate all at once. so
that systematic plan of work might
be adopted and carried out. The re-
suit would be to make travel easy and
safe and bring almost every point of
interest of the park in the line of tour
list travel After this work is complet-
ed the cost of maintenance would prob
ably not amount to more than half of
the present annual appropriation. and
a part of this could be used for macad-
amizing few miles Of road each year.
this work is obtained or not, there are
certain items for which the department
should make every effort to get appro-
priations. The most important are as
follows: Fifteen thousand dollars for
new steel bridge in Golden Gate can
yen. This is absolutely necessary for
safety. The present bridge Is unsafe
for another seasons travel. There is
no other way of getting through. This
bridge is of wood, fastened to the side
of precipitous cliff with wooden sup
ports below, and has been in use sew
eral years.
Sixteen thousand dollars for road in
Gardiner canyon. This road runs at
the base of a. mountain, the side of
which, next to the road is composed of
loose earth and an easily disintegrated
stone that from time to time breaks
away and falls into the road making
travel along it at certain seasons dam
gerous. This change should be made
in the interest of safety.
Twenty thousand dollars for new
road Grand canyon to Norris. This
road should be changed to avoid an ex-
tremely steep declivity with an abrupt
gerous.
Five thousand dollars for bridge over
Lamar river. The old bridge washes
out every spring, cutting off the Soda
Butte station and isolating an impor-
tant part of the park.
Twenty thousand dollars for new
bridge across the Yellowstone near the
upper falls. This bridge should be
built both as a means of protection and
for the opening up of the east side of
the river to tourists. The means of
getting to the other side, where much
of the game ranges, is to cross on the
ice in the winter and to ford it at the
shallow points in the summer. 1t is
late in the winter before this can be
done on the ice. During high water it
is impossible to ford anywhere, and it
is late in the summer and at only a
few points where this can be done at
all.
Captain Brown concludes his report
by saving: 1.-The park is unquestionably
fulfilling the purposes for which it was
set aside by the government. 1t has
been visited by about 10000 tourists
this year from every part of the United
States and from foreign countries. AS
its natural wonders and picturesque
beauties become more widely known
these numbers will undoubtedly in
crease. AS a game preserve it is prob
ably the greatest in the world, and as
the game disappears from the country
surrounding it and other points of the
West its value will be conspicuous as
the preceding ground ana refuge OF Tue
wild fauna of our country. To prop
erly protect this extensive area and en-
force compliance with the main regula-
lions for its government requires more
troops than the number now stationed
in the park, but it is well understood
that under the present conditions no
more are available for this duty. The
majority of the men in the command
were newly enlisted and had hardly
t1,n of hn iy,on
they were sent out to the different sta
tons. 1t is but just to them to state
that the important duties they were
charged with have been performed
with commendable prudence and eff
cheney, and it is believed that the care
and condition of the park thist season
will compare favorably with those at
any period of it's history
HOSFORD.