The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-07-28

out to meet the yellow buses and
stands with his fore paws on the side
Of the bus while the passengers give
him something to eat. One can al
ways see bears feeding at the gar.
bage grounds. Occasionally bear
becomes so cross the ranger has to
kill him. The bears do little real
damage. Occasionally they visit q
camp, and upset things looking for
food. saw one old fellow chased out
Of camp just as he was getting his
nose into the absent owners lard
bucket. Only two people have been
killed by bears in the park, so far
as could learn. One was woman
and the other man. In each case
they had been feeding the bears and
angered them by holding out their
hands with nothing in them.
There are plenty of deer, elk, bob
cats and some mountain lions in the
Park. The rangers kill the mountain
lion and bob cats whenever possible.
Fishing is one of the favorite sports
in the Park, the bridge below the yell
lowstone Lake Camp and the rapids
below the lake being fine places to
catch salmon and trout. Scores of
people line up on the banks or in the
the river each day. The water is
so clear that one can see the big splen-
did fish lying on the bottom. I had
poor luck at this place. got strike
or two after fishing a couple of hours
and grew disguster and quit when
women who had never fshed before
stood within three or four feet of me
and with limb from tree for a
pole and a couple of common hooks
without bait, pulled in fish after fish,
while ! with my more expensive rod,
reel, spinners, flies, leaders and plain
coachmen, failed to interest the men,
bers of the finny tribe in the least.
A big majority of those visiting the
park camp out. Camp grounds have
been set aside for them not far from
the hotels and the Wiley camps, where
the people are very comfortable. One
can camp out in the park as long as
he desires. There is always plenty of
the finest kind of water, and an album
dance of fuel. One can buy grocer
mes at several stores in the park very
reasonably. Gasoline costs 40 cents
a gallon in the park and IS cents just
outside. While in the park, l patron
lied the Wiley camps mainly. I did
cook few meals just to keep in prac-
tice. The smell of frying bacon and
eggs, potatoes and coffee made froN
water dipped from the ice cold yell
lowstone Lake up nearly two miles
above sea level gives one wonderful
appetite.
I don't intend to burden you with
any long description of the wonders of
the park such as the Mammoth hot
springs with beautifully colored ter
races; the devils kitchen down under
the ground in what was formerly a
part of geyser; boiling springs ev-
erywhere with water hot enough to
boil an egg; the scores of geysers
with Old Faithful spouting forth it's
boiling water to a height of $50 feet
every 81 minutes by the clock and at
night the searchlight playing on it.
l visited the Giant geyser that spouts
every Il to II days, shooting forth
it's boiling water to height of 200
feet, lasting for hours; the Canyon
Falls and the river below as seen
from Artists Point, the most beau
tiful sight I have ever seen, Glacier
Park and the Canadian National Park
not excepted. You will have to visit
the park yourself to appreciate these
and scores of other wonderful sights.
Yellowstone Park was hidden away
until discovered by a white man in
1870 and two years later it was set
aside by the government as Nation
al Park, not to be defaced or dis
turbed. One dares not mar the beau
ty of the Park. Nothing may be car
ried away as souvenirs.
I came out the Cody way over the
Sylvan Pass, up where there are great
banks of snow. This was on We'd
nesday when the same day the Their
registered 10 in Billings.
! stopped at the Shoshone dam which
some years ago was built between
two mountains by the government to
store up water. from the Shoshone
river to be used by the farmers for
purposes as needed. The
dam is 318 feet high and is built of
118 feet wide at the base. It
has caused basin 10 miles long and
miles wide to be formed above it.
The government is now building a
tunnel back into the mountain and
will install huge power plant to
furnish light and power for the towns
for many miles around and power for
digging irrigation bitches for the pro-
ject which is but partially completed.
I stopped at Cody, Wyoming one
night and slept in the hotel that Buff