The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-20

From the East.
 Uncle Sam is building a side entrance to his natural museum of marvels, the Yellowstone park. For twenty years he has welcomed tourist and sportsmen at the northern gate, in Montana, and sent them .out by the same way. Now he is preparing an outlet on the east and giving to Wyoming a highway of travel which is destined to become of the show roads Of the nation.
 With pick and blow, dynamite and drill. scraper and shovel, the hired mountains, hewn a thorougfare through forest primeval, bridged turbulent tor rents and wood the favor of purling rivers and placid pools.
 Already the tin can trail of dozen
 broken" camps has been left to lure the willing pilgrim over twenty miles of as fair a route as ever bore the vaunted title of Lovers Lane" Eight miles more remain to be built before the toil- CTS shali have linked a railroad water tank and the continental divide with sixty-Ave miles O. coach road.
 This means that Wyoming, which claims nearly all of the 3.412 square miles of Yellowstone park, will at last possess an entrance to the park capable of accommodating tourists who prefer the luxury of cushioned coach to the uncertain seat of broncho. s.
 President Roosevelts trip through the park in April was made. by way of Gardiner and the Northern Pacific rail- road. But August park pilgrims were giveni new route via the Burlington railroad and Cody, Wyo. This will afford coaching journey of 15Q miles or more. through new country all the way. and with separate entrance to the park.
 The north fork of the Shoeshone river which feeds the Big Horn, tributary of the Yellowstone, has been chosen as the most available and picturesque route for the road The North fork, which joins the South fork of the Shoeshone just above Cody, runs eighty or ninety miles. taking it's source in the noun tains bordering Yellowstone lake on the east.
 It is a lively bit of waterway. For most of it's course it boils. and bubbles and bounds along at furious speed, fall an average of thirty-one feet to the mile. Its jade green waters now blow a path through solid rock now slash throughfare through timber, and again noiselessly compass half dozen peb- bly sand bas's.
 It's pilgrimage is through land that rivals the Colorado Garden of the Gods for strange and impressive structures. N In such a setting as this has young government engineer and hundred or more 1aborers been hewing their. way along the borders of the river from the eastern extremity of the shoshone division of the Yellowstone park forest reserve to the park line. Up to date they, have completed twenty miles of road and have only eight or ten miles left before entering the park and mak- ing connection with new stretch of carriage road, which is an extension of the regular park highway.
 From Cody to the forest reserve line there is a thirty-five mile road of ex- cellent construction. the property of the county. This has been in use several years, since the broad fertile valley east of the mountains has long been a ranchman's paradise, with cab ins and corrals dotting the line of the river in picturesque variety. 3
 The work last year was largely de- :. voted to rock construction. that is all os the open country which offered few obstacles toward the making of a road was improved so that in place of the narrow trail a broad, well graded highway over which a team might travel without jeopardy to life and lirab. Several small bridges which crossed narrow cuts and small moun- tain streams, were built and one or two larger bridges. ..s
 But the more difficult operation of rock work was, for the most part, avoided. In this way the builders temporarily lodged the promontories which here and there, frowning Gibral- tars, planted a formidable foot in the waterway and challenged the as- sault of the inlpetuous torrent. In this way-on the installment plan--some twelve miles of road were completed before winter put a veto on further work. 5z8#s &%ss.$
 This left for this years gang the toil- some task of moving mountains"
 Armed with hand drills and dynamite and black powder. the toilers went into the mountains this spring prepared for operations. of the explosive sort. Through April, May and June was the slow but necessary work of destruction carried on. g-.--. .. .ss
 On some days as much as four miles of roadway is completed between dawn and dusk. Again it, takes a week to 'hew a thoroughfare obstructive rock, which rises seven hundred or eight hunderd feet in defiance of the road surveyor. surveyor. .--New York Herald. THE GENERALS WORST SCARE.