The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-04
TOURIST TRAVEL IS HEAVY TO
 YELLOWSTONE

YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo., Aug. 4.-Travel in Yellowstone national park, always the best barometer of vacation travel in the west, gives every promise of making 1920 the best tourist season on record.
 It is significant fact, too, that most of the visitors to Yellowstone this year have been no casual "f1itters," hurriedly scanning the wonders of this park, then hastening home on return ticket, but are tourists in the broadest sense of the term, making the grand circle of the west and learning the wonders of their country as never be- fore.
 Persons entering Yellowstone from the north at Gardiner Mont, and from <Ae west at West Yellowstone, Mont, in almost all cases have been around by Los Angeles, then up to San Fran cisco, Portland and Seattle, perhaps into Glacier national park, and inter- vening cities. They go out to Salt Lake City and Denver. Visitors com ing in from the east by way of Cody already have seen Denver, Colorado Springs, Rocky Mountain national >'park and the Wyoming cities, and con- tinue their journey to the Pacific coast.
 Travel from the south through Jack sons Hole and Snake river valley has been restricted by road trouble, but a few veteran motorists have made the journey, finding ample compensa- . ton in the beautiful scenery of the Tetons, which soon will be made a part of the Greater Yellowstone"
 Never before have the Yellowstone roads been opened to travel so early under such difficult conditions as this year. The extremely hard winter, which caused much suffering among the wild animals, piled 40 feet of snow in Sylvan pass on the east, Dunraven pass on the north and the Snake river valley on the south, but thoroughfare was provided in excellent time. Heroic efforts were necessary, of course. P snow shovel was improvised to meet the situation, being contrived from a paterpillar tractor and sheet iron. Nearly two-score road crews were put to work mending the soft spots with stone and earth, and tourists received the benefit in being able to make the entire loop tour without danger or dis cofafort.
 Sylvan pass was opened first, almost the entire road force of the park being mobilized there in cooperation with the citizens of Cody, to accommodate the great number of people coming into the park by way of Cody, Chey- enne and Casper The road was opened on June IT; the earliest pre- vious date was June 20.
 Snake river came next The first car passed through on June 28.
 Dunraven pass, the beautiful scenic route from Yellowstone canyon to Mammoth Hot Springs by way of Tower falls and the Roosevelt country, >an exceedingly difficult mountain road which reaches an altitude of $500 feet, T,,I, h O sport snowballing and taking pictures of the drifts which bordered the road, dwarfing the big motor busses.
 It was necessary to close Dunraven pass two days later, when very warm day made great headways in the snow banks, producing soft spots in the road that were considered dangerous, But those were remedied in brief A hours and the pass was opened again.
 Beginning slowly, travel in the park picked up quickly and soon passed last years figures. On July 6, when the gates had been opened officially for less than three Weeho, ii''0N Poh sons had entered Yellowstone, com pared with 10,O79 last year. The number of motor vehicles admitted was exactly the same, but the seasons daily average was showing steady growth. The total number of automo- piles admitted to July 6 was 1,736.
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