The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-08-15
RECORD NUMBER
VISIT YELLOW
Stone PARK

of its history. Attendance is run
ming a third heavier than ever before,
there have been more celebrated Wis
itors than in any previous year, and
every condition has been favorable
to the maximum enjoyment of the
park.
The total travel to August l was
1928 persons, compared with 3D.
$40 persons to the same date in 1922,
ana AZ 1876 in 1921. The rail travel
was 23,143, compared with 1875
last year and 12,717 in 1921.
Motor travel to August 1 was 49,
800 persons in 14,76 cars, compared
with $4,000 persons in 9,307 cars last
year, and 1888 persons in $3.50 cars
in 1921.
By entrances the travel this year
has been as follows: Northern gate
way. % 3311; western, 24,279; east
ern, 1891, and southern, 6,882.
The favored automobile entrances
were the Gardiner gateway, with A.
974 cars, and the eastern, with 4,376.
Through the western entrance came
1880 cars, and through the southern
226. Arrivals at the south entrance
were increasing rapidly toward the
end of the month. The southern en-
trance established a record for auto
mobile entrances at a single gateway
on July 29, when lit ears entered
with 600 passengers. This heavy
travel was due in part to erroneous
reports in circulation alleging an i'm
passable condition of the eastern road
to the park.
Rail travel to August 1 by en-
frances was as follows: Gardiner
gateway, GIL; western, 12,430;
eastern, 3,946; southern, Sc.
The greatest days travel in the
history of the Yellowstone National
park was July IS, when 1856 persons
entered. The record of the previous
year, made July %, was 1888. So
far during the present season there
have been twelve days when more
than 2 900 visitors arrived.
The greatest number of autOmO-
biles and passengers entering the
park On a single day was ATS cars
with 1923 passengers, on July II,
Last years record was 337 cars with
1,181 passengers, on August Z.
The tremendous travel to the Vel
lowstone park this season is not diff
cult to explain.
Besides being the objective of {
great number of motorists, the parl
is in the route of thousands of car:
going to and from the Pacific coast
The volume of transcontinental auto
mobile travel is unparalleled in ms
tory.
Second, the visit of President ant
Mrs. Harding and the Alaska part!
attracted national attention to TIL
park. The visit of a large congress
sional party also stimulated wide in
terest.
!, Third. there seems to have occurre,
: a general re-direction of interest o.
, the part Of eastern tourists from Eu
: rope to western America. Attendant
of visitors from both eastern an
southern states is far heavier thai
ever before. 1t is significant tina
the press of the entire country i
? giving generous attention to the Yel
= lowstone, as well as other nations
parks.
Fourth, the enjoyment of the par
seems to have become democratizeC
, The visitors represent every class G
travellers, including great numbers c
Il mechanics and farmers arriving i
their own cars. A recent party il
Guided forty printers of New Yor
City. Horseback parties of societ
girls from eastern cities have share
the roads with groups Of Boy Scout
i from the towns of reighboring state
Of course the park itself has bee
- the chief motive inspiring the majos
ity of its visitors. Old residents hel
IS do not recall a time when the Ye
al lowstone region YVES more beautifu
ID Late spring rains and recurring SHOW
ers have left the park greener ar
more abundant with wild flowers
II this date than ever before.
B. The Yellowstone bears, too, ha7
a. done a tremendous service in promo
r. ing enjoyment Of the park and e
couraging further attendance. Bea
this year have been more numero
n than at any time since 1919, when b
s. cause of excessively cold wealth
many of them left the park area al
IN were killed by hunters. Many
ne these bears have appeared regular
OF on park highways, Holding up" a
tomobiles for sugar and bacon rinC
ce and permitting themselves to be ph
~tographed at the leisure Of the ph
st tegrapher. President Harding IN
in self made the acquaintance Of
tie mother bear and her cub while hel
it's The maintenance of the park hig
ng ways under the extraordinary traft
has heau a~ccompIished IN a safisfs