Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-11
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$4,000 Clubhouse, Lift"
From Valley to Top Glacier
Point and New Buildings In
cluded in 1920 Program.

- $4,000 clubhouse was the personal
Cnr1stmas gift which Stephen 4. Ma
ther. director of national parks, pre-
scented to the rangers OF the Yosemite
NATIONAL park during his visit. from
which no has Just returned. The club
mousse Will be erected Immediately and
VIII provide the rangers with comfort
able sleeping quarters, reading and
writing rooms, library and several
other club features.
A. b. c. Dohrmann, president of the
Yosemite National Park company, con-
trtbuted $1,000 toward the equipment Of
the clubhouse and the following guests
OF Mathcr on the party gave 500 each:
Or. Emmett Rixford, Warren Gregory,
Charles Z. Townsend, William T.. Col
py. Allan Chickering, Duncan McDuf-
Tie. Charles w. Merrill, William A. Nc
Gee, Halsey L. Manwaring and Joseph
II. Knowland.
UNIQUE "LlFTr
Probably the most unique outdoor
feature in the world will be the lift
which Is to be erected from the floor
OF the Yosemite valley to the top OF
Glacier point and which was explained
py william r. Colby, secretary of the
sierra club and approved by Mather
Tor the department OF the interior.
This lift will be in a shaft which is
TO be drilled through the solid Yosemite
granite. a distance of 5000 feet from
the floor of the valley. 1t will cost ap-
proximately 100000 and drilling will
be started in six places at one time
The dimensions of the shaft will be
sxl3 feet and power driven elevator
Will be operated at frequent intervals.
1t will make Glacier point accessible
from the flooRof the valley in less than
two minutes and will serve to bring
thousands of tourists into the high
Sferras back of the Yosemite. Accord
Ing to present plans building operations
Will be begun shortly
Mather also announced that the de-
partment of the interior proposes to
install complete sewage system at a
cost of $150000 and new administra-
tion building at an outlay of $4,000 is
to be erected in the near future.
NEW HOTEL
He stated further that the Yosemite
National Park company had raised the
necessary funds to start building oper-
atoms on the magnificent new hotel
at the beginning of next year and thar
with all the contemplated improve
ments the Yosemite is facing an UNI
precedented era of popularity.
Mather's party was made up of the
following DIR, David p. Barrows pres
tdent of the University of California;
Ralph y. Merritt, comptroller of the
university; Lincoln Hutchinson. pro
lessor at the university school of COM
merce. Professor Joseph lie Conte: |
Joseph r. Knowland former congress
man and publisher of the Oakland
Tribune; Fred Grimwood; Carl S.
Bachman; Robert Newton Lynch, gen
eral manager San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce. Hall McAllister. Cali
tn A 90 Co,a i
McDuffie: William A. and Fred Il. Ma
gee; c. w. Merrill, prominent metal |
lurgist; Charles ID. Mahaffie, solicitor
of the department of the interior, |
Washington ID. c.; Halsey Il. Manwar-
ing, general manager Palace hotel, San
Francisco; DIR. Emmett Rixford; Gail |
lard Stoney: Charles f. Townsend; J. |
j. Agnew, president California Seed
Growers association; J. y. Woodwon. |
district superintendent California state
highway commission: Allan Checker |
ing: G. It. Bliss, president Lake Tahoe |
Transportation company; W. T.. Colby, |
secretary Sierra club; j. ]. Cotter, adj !
ministrative assistant to Secretary
Franklin X. Lane: A. r. c. Dohrmann, |
president of the Yosemite National |
Park company; Francis p. Farquhar; |
G. M. Goethe, national recreation COM |
mission; Warren Gregory and James |
s. Hutchinson.
w. b. Lewis, superintendent of the |
Yosemite. national park, assisted by
Forest Townsley, chief ranger, and T. !
E. Farrow, general manager OF the Yo-
semitic National Park company made |
all the necessary arrangements for the
entertainment of the party in the
valley.
HAVE GREAT TIME
Sleighriding, bobsledding, toboggan-
ing, skiing and horseback riding was
INDUCED in by the guests and excur-
sions were taken to the top of Vernal
falls, Mirror lake, the Happy isles and
Bridal Veil falls. All those present ex-
pressed their surprise at the easy ac-
feasibility of the Yosemite during the
winter months.
Mather gave a Christmas celebra-
ton to the children of the valley and
presented each of them with a gift
Every child from two months old AL
bert Leopold JONES' who was born in
the valley during King Albert's visit.
named after him and presented by him
with q silver christening set, to the
little Indian tots was remembered and
a huge Christmas tree, grown right in
the valley was brilliantly lighted up.
ELK FOR THE PARK
During the visit Hall McAllister
Of the California Academy of Sciences
announced that he intended to bring
herd OF native elk to the park and
splace them in the zoo there and Mather
stated that he would see to It that
herd of reindeer would be brought in
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