The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-19
SPORTS AND PASTiMES.
Yachts on the Lakes to BE lowed by
Kites Instead of Sails

Kites Instead of Sails.
E. Hofer. writing to the Forest and
Stream from Mammoth Hot Springs,
says:
Il suppose we shall have to say it's
spring here at last. The snow is off
between here and Gardiner, and there
is considerable green grass, and now
and then you can see a wild flower or
two along the road. | saw a few John
ny-jump-ups and the buds of some but
tercups.
Il see no game along the road, as
most of it is working back Antelope
have gotten as far as Yancey's, al
though there are a few close to the
town of Gardiner and on the fiat across
Gardiner river. Blacktail and elk have
gone back, too The whitetails are
not to be seen just now along the
road, because there are crews Of men
putting the road in condition for the
seasons travel. 1t is possible to ride
a horse to Norris basin by going
through Snow gate, the old road Gold
en- gate is impossible. Scouts and
soldiers have been to Riverside sta
ton and the Lower Geyser basin this
spring with horses. and to Yancey's
and Soda Butte. The two troops of
cavalry here now are to go to Manila;
they will start soon after being reliev-
ed by NJ troop of the LIST cavalry. 1t
is thought that it will be about July
l before they can get away, as there
are men at the outer stations that can
not be gotten in much before that
date
The spring is more than a month
behind that of last year. Where the
snow is off the grass has not start
ed, or is only very short. Toward
Gardiner the lowest and warmest sec
ton of the park, the country looks a
bit green.
THE order I mentioned in my last,
limiting licensed drivers to only one
team, has been revoked. Now, five
wagons for passengers, and all the
baggage teams necessary for a party,
are permitted with each license. only
requiring the holder to accompany the
party personally.
THE Yellowstone Park association is
not going to have their lunch stations
this year, but only the hotels The
transportation company or some other
parties will run the lunch business at
Norris, Upper Geyser basin and the
Yellowstone lake (west arm). / under
stand that no coupon tickets will be
sold this year by the railroads includ-
ing the park trip. 1t will be a sort
of free-for-all, and parties who are
prepared for transporting tourists ex-
pect to do a large business
Captain Edwin has, during the past
winter, added to the animals in the
enclosure in front of the Mammoth
hotel two COW elk, four blacktail
tmule) deer and four Whitehall deer.
They are looking very we'll, and it is
expected that there will be some in
crease by births.
Scout Morrison, who has Travelled
many hundred miles this winter
through the park on snowshoes. tells
me that there are over 200 dead elk
between the mouth of Blacktail Creek
and Hellroaring, a distance of about
five miles along the Yellowstone river
These are mostly calves, with a few old
bulls. There are about 300 dead elk
along Soda Butte creek and slopes to-
ward Cache creek. mostly again young
elk, showing what a very hard winter
it has been. On Falls river. during
one of his snowshoe trips on March /,
he saw Il moore, one herd of two bulls
and three cows. and the others, three,
two and a lone one. He saw two
moose in the Madison basin. These
are more moose than ever before re-
ported. Morrison found three dead
mountain sheep along the Yellowstone
river that had died of starvation. He
saw 26 live ones that were very thin
and starved looking.
After / wrote my last letter, while
the ground was yet covered with snow,
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