The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-07-08

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WRIGHTs CONTINUE WESTWARD
Are Camping at Yellowstone Lake
this Week
The Times is in receipt Of the fol-
lowing letter this week from Alex r.
Wright:
We have camped on the edge Of
Yellowstone lake for few days.
There is a fve-stall permanent
camp here, with good corrugated iron
roof. Each stall will hold two cars.
In one Of them we ran the cars, while
another affords tenting and living
quarters. We have large table and
three benches, and in the center our
camp fire burns constantly. There
are CRATES to place over the fires and
we have some real "home."
Dad Hodges AYERS we are to stay
here week, but the women folks do
not like the bed well enough to let
Dad have his way. Fishing is splen-
did in Yellowstone river leading from
the lake. There is a large bridge
crossing the Yellowstone about mile
from camp, and there we have spent
most of the time since landing two
days ago. This crossing is known as
Fishers bridge and it is lined with
people from daylight to dark. Good
salmon mountain trout are carried
away in abundance. From the foot
ing Of the bridge to $50 feet away
trailers are working down the river,
which is very swift at this point, in
fact is fast running everywhere we
have seen it. The trout weigh from
1 1-2 to 2 lbs. and are splendid to eat,
differing from the lake trout, which
are said to be wormy. We are feast
ing on fish every day now. Before
entering the park we loaded up with
provisions, but had run out of fresh
meat. The fish come in just right.
Lake Yellowstone lies up in the
mountains 7,741 feet. All around it
are snow capped mountains. To the
right Of where we camp, which is just
east Of the imposing Lake hotel, may
be seen the Teton mountains, 67 miles
away. Grand Teton is 13,747 feet
high. The lake is fed from the melt
ing snow and springs from the sur
rounding mountains, and the water is
almost ice cold.
AS I sit writing in the open this
Fourth Of July morning there is a
clear sky overhead, but I have on a
heavy hunting coat and want to get
out where the sun strikes to be COM
Portable. The air is bracing and ex-
hilarating. Right among the trees
between our camp and the hotel still
fingers heap of snow. As we pass
ed going to the hotel, the tourists stop
ping at the inn were out having real
snow-balling bee.
The protected game of the park are
not wild any more. We have seen
bear, deer and beaver along the road
and they will barely get out of the
way Of the automobile. Yesterday
morning as we went to the bridge for
a days fishing, deer lay in the hol-
low along the roadside and did not
stir, and as we came to the bridge a
large black bear was pulling out of
the water, where he had been for his
morning bath. Several cameras were
trained on him and noises made so he
would pose, but he just looked around
once. There were only five bears out
to feed at the dump back Of the hotel
last night, but we got up too late to
see them. We will make another try
tonight.
Mrs. Wright and myself were thru
the park fourteen years ago with the
North Dakota editorial party, and
there is not much new to us. The
trip at that time was covered in five
letters for the Times and I do not
think it necessary to go over the
ground again. Suffice to say that the
Mammoth Hot Springs look the same
only the openings are in a different
place. The Norris Basin, the next
stop, has the same green tinted pools
and the surly Black Growler, the
"growl" coming from the passing OF
the steam through the shell-like for
nation.
AS we pass along we see the NAM
moth Paint Pots, which look like paint
or lime Stacking, with steam sputter.
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