The daily sentinel., 1913-08-08
DR.. GREEN WRITES
INTERESTINGLY
OF HIS TRIP
Says Wyoming Road Is Awful,
Could Never Be Accepted
as National Highway.

A representative of The Daily SEN
tinel received letter today from DR.
]. Z. Green, who left this city early
in June to go cross-country to the
Yellowstone park. The letter is very
interesting and is reproduced here as
follows:
Yellowstone, Aug 4, 1913.
Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Colo.
Dear Friends: | promised to write
you ere this, but l have had hard
going and it has kept me on the Jump.
Have had rain and mud since July
2 2 and can hear it laundering now,
and only on three days have | driven
without rain in some part of the day,
but ! have enjoyed it nevertheless
and cannot tell all the things and diff
ferent kinds of experiences have
had in letter. for l am afraid 1t
would take too long to write II.
Outside of the northwest corner of
Wyoming, it is nothing but vast
sage brush plateau and alkali-both
land and water. at that After leav-
ing Colordo where there was an
abundance of trees, grass and water
and only coming into Wyoming five
miles and coming to nothing but sand
and sagebrush with water to 2l
miles apart was quite a change.
From Rawlins | took the old Lam
der trail to Sweetwater, 81 miles,
then left it and came over what is
known as South Road, as there is
more feed for horses that way. The
road comes by Atlantic City, Pacific
Springs, Pindale and from Pindale
we went over the divide down Hog
back canon into the Jackson Hole
country. The lower part of the val
ley is all settled up. Jackson is a
little village of about 200 people.
North OF Jackson, in what is known
as Jackson Hole" is a wide valley
of 100000 acres of tillable land and
over 200 goo acres Is government
land yet. The beautiful Teton range
of mountains lie along the west side
of the valley and are very rugged and
snow-capped the year round. The
east side of the valley is Lydia range
of hills, covered with abundance of
grass and shade of all kinds of nut
trees. | have always had the impress
sion it was a rugged, rocky valley
with rocky canons leading off from
it, but it is just the opposite. They
can only raise hay as II is too cold
for grain and seldom gets ripe, yet
| saw quite bit of oats. Jackson
lake is beautiful body of water and
they have put in a large dam and
raised its surface Al feet, to be held
until fall for irrigation down in
Idaho.
The part of Wyoming l came
through there are very few settlers.
l have driven all day without seeing
house, and one part of the road l
drove three days without seeing a
I L.. L, al, oil
by itself where someone had found a
little stream they could use before 1t
sank in the sand.
That part of the state is given up
to sheep they say and yet l never saw
but one flock while crossing the
state.
We are now at the west entrance to
Yellowstone park in a nice little
town nesting down in the pine trees.
They tell me more than 500 more
people came into the park last year
by this entrance than by the north
entrance. Yesterday there were AZ
loads averaging six people to the load
left here. besides 1 teams of pri-
vate parties. | expect Mrs. Green
Leila and Lois tomorrow morning
and will try to start to see the Won
ders of park that we hear so much
about. l don't know whether | will
stay to get an elk or not. They have
made new laws so it is lots of trou-
BILE and red tape to get one out of
the state they tell me, after once get
ting one. Well, | will ring off. ere
you have to get some glasses to fin
ish. Regards to my friends.
Sincerely,
DR. ]. e. GREEN.