The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-11-20
BOUNDARY OF
WONDERLAND
HAS at Last Been Surveyed and
Plainly Marked.
MONUMENTS EVERY HALF MILE
Warn Poachers That They Are Tres
passing on Forbidden Ground-Pos-
sibly a Fence Will Be Built Entire.
ly Around the Yellowstone Re.
serve.

The survey of the boundary of the
Yellowstone National park has been
finally completed and the boundary
marked with permanent monuments.
This will prove of assistance to the
troops stationed in the park in rum
11ng to earth and prosecuting game
poachers who have always raised lne
plea that they did not know they
were hunting in the great national
reserve.
The proposition to fence the park
IS among the possibilities of the next
AZ years. 1t would be expensive, but
would materially assist in keeping
the game inside
J. Scott Harrison a government
Inspector of surveys, had charge this
fall of completing the survey of the
eastern boundary of the park. The
boundaries of the great park are now
marked with monuments every half
mile.
The survey of the park was COM
menced seven or eight years ago. The
work dragged along and the eastern
boundary was the last portion to be
finished. The parties who had the
contract for completing the survey
Of the eastern boundary did not fin
ish the work and the interior depart
ment directed Mr. Harrison who in
spects the surveys of government
land in this state, take charge and
rush the work through. He got
through few weeks ago and tells
quite an interesting story of the wild
and unsettled country through which
the line runs.
HI norrio5 c,,r1,o.- CT villas
north and south. me line of the
boundary. besides being marked by
monuments. is indicated by a trail
Dlazed along the trees and marks on
the trees.
The monuments that were station
ed every half mile are of stone and
80 inches long and IL inches square
and over one-half inbedded in the
earth. Cut in the stone are figures
showing the distance north from the
initial monument on Mountain creek,
10 miles east of the most easterly
point of the Yellowstone lake. On
the west side of the stones are the
letters Y. N. P. yellowstone Nation
al Park and on the east side the
letters Y. F. r. yellowstone Forest
Reserved.
1--WE blazed many of the trees
along the line and cut marks that
will last for years. Many trees were
also cut out Of the way" said Mr..
Harrison. ''At every trail and cross
roads we put up wooden posts prop
erly marked There is no excuse for
any one not knowing now when they
are in the park. There has always
been more or less conflict as to the
exact location of the eastern bounda-
ry. This has been definitely settled.
One of the highest peaks over which
the line runs is Amphitheater noun
tain, which is about II, 900 feet high.
The line crosses on1on of the steep
sides, a short distance below the
summit. 1t was impossible to make
the survey in some places on that
mountain, and We had to do the work
by triangulation. % The snow was
pretty deep in some places where we
were working. For a number of
days we worked in snow breast
deep. This made the work a slow
and difficult task
Mr.. Harrison says that the idea of
fencing the park, which has often
been considered, is not bad one.
Heavy posts with strong wire could
be used, and this would make a fence
that would last many years.
big game is as plentiful as cattle
upon the ranges" continued Mr.. Har-
rison. Where we We're working
we generally saw more elk than cat
tie. There are also many moose and
bear to be seen there
Mr.. Harrison did not visit the IA
nous Death gulch, which came into
prominence during the recent visit of
the president, although he was near
it. There is not the least doubt, Mr..
Harrison says, about wild animals be-
coming asphyXiated in that gulch
from breathing the noxious gases
which ooze from the ground in the
bottom of the valley. During last
summer a place was found short
distance from the Mammoth Hot
Springs hotel where deadly gases
are emitted from a subterranean ca
vern. This was not known before
and the government will probably
take stems to inclose the place in a
high fence to keep tourists away.