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for May and net declines on the list Of If to 21 points October at its lowest trades at 28. .2sc The close was at net declines of l3 to 21 points, May closing at 30.4oc ana October at 26. 32c.
 The lower opening was partly due to a poor Liverpool market and to further com plaints of poor trade from Lancashire. but most of the selling appeared to arise rom the view that the weather map was not as unfavorable as expected; temperatures 2 were abnormally low over the belt, put the map did not show much moisture as anticipated. The census bureau figures on total production for this last season or 9729,04s bales just about met expecta- tions and had no effect on values.
 After early declines of 12 to le points by sold-out bulls and on more hopeful news from Fall River regarding the mil were at the best of the day. at str, advances this stage May rose to 30 6sc and October to ss.4sc. Selling started again during the noon hour and offerings were more liberal in the late trading than during any other part of the session.
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BUTTER MARKET

CHICAGO. March 2o.-The butter mar ket was firm today with greater demand than supply. Premiums were offered in many cases, butter scoring s2 selling as high 51c, with centralized car lots cleaned up.
 Closing prices. fresh butter: CT score 47Ac, Ss score 4shc, s9 score 4sc. 90 score 49hc, 91 score soc. 92~score 60%c.
 Centralized car lots: B score 4S@4shc 90 score Soc.
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RY GOODS MARKET

NEW YORK, March 2o.-Cotton goods were steady in todays markets with trad ing in gray goods light. Some sales Of 381s inch 64x60s for contract delivery were made at 11Ac a slight falling off. Owing to stock distributions in New Eng land trad ruled steady, knit goods were in moderate demand. New hosiery prices showed slight advances. Burlaps were easier. Silks were less active. Fancies were active and firm. Dress goods in fine worsteds were bought freely.
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Federal Issues Show
 Loss During Session

NEW YORK, March 20.-Marked heavi- ness of industrial bonds and continued,1 small losses in United States government bonds bringing several other active issues to new lows for the year featured today's dealings in bonds the New York Stock exchange. Foreign government obligations were steady with some improvement in the French issues. Losses in the active United States government bonds ranged from 4c to 1Sc on $100-
 The sugar liens, which have beene in good demand, developed considerable heav- mess. Junta Alegre Is dropping 21s points. Eastern Cuba Sugar 71ss, 115 and Ameri- can Sugar 6s fractionaly. Losses of more than a point were recorded also by Union Tank Car Is and Virginia Carolina Chemi- cal 7ks with warrants. Chile Copper; Is advanced IA points. but the 6s were off fractionally.
 Trading in railroad mortgages was mixed. a gain of 1 point being registered by Colorado and Southern refunding 41as and losses of point each by New York Centrals refunding 5s Denver and Rio Grande consolidated As and Central Pa cific 4s.
 Total sales, par value, $1o,1S4,oo0.
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PORT MOVEMENT

New Orleans: Middlng. so;s:e; re- ceipts, b,540; sales, 110; stock, 174,S8b.
 Galveston: Middling. 31. 06c; receipts, 5,1OO: exports. 14,s2s; sales. 675; stock. Mobile: Middlins, so. Soc; receipts. 1l4; ''saN Savannah: s: Middlins. se.ssc: receipts. Charieston: Receipts. ao5; steck.t 47.512. Wilmington: Middling, 3o.25c; receipts, 46s; stock. 31,336. Texas City: Stock. 5.oo7.
 Norfolk: Middling. 30. soc; receipts. S16; sales, AZ; stock, S1,764.
 Baltimore-Stock. 2,312.
 Boston: Middling, 31.2oc; receipts. SIS; Philadelphia: Stock, 4.725.
 New York: Middling. s1.1oc; receipts. Minor ports: Receipts. 71o; exports. 71o; stock, 7.476.
 Total for week: Receipts. szs43; ex- p'I Total G for season: Receipts. 6.1s1.sss; exports, 3,77S,423.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON

LIVERPOOL. March 2o.-Spot cotton in limited demand; prices sasier; good mid ding. Is. 66d; fully mi6d.ing, 1e. sod; n'a ordinary. 15. .66d: ordinary. 15. S6d. Sal<- 5000 bales. including 2.soo American: Re. ceipts, 12,000 bales including 11,900 American. Futures closed firm: March l6 .lsd. May 16.o4d. July 15.s7d. October 14. rod, January 14. 24d.
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SUGAR MARKET

NEW YORK. March 20.-Raw sugar was easier and prices 1-16c lower to the basis of 5hc for Cubas, cost and freight equal to 2. 2sc for centrifugal. There were sales of 10000 bags of Cubas for March ship ment.
 Raw sugar futures were easier and final prices were at the lowest of the day and night. Closing: May 5.59c, July 6.57c. September 92c. December 5.S1c.
 Refined unchanged with fine granulated quoted from 8 soc to S.30c. Refined fu- lures unchanged to 15 points net lower.
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COFFEE MARKET

NEW YORK. March 20.-After opening unchanged to points lower the coffee market stiffened up a few points on cov- ering, but otherwise there appeared to be very little demand, and prices eased again in the later trading. and the close was at the lowest. showing net. losses of to 15 points. Estimated sales. 17,00o bags. Clos ing March II 45c. May II .19c, July Io.45c, September 9.57c. December 9.27c. March, 1924. 9.17c.
 Spot coffee was reported In fair demand at l3c for Rio Is and 15h @15%c for San tos 4s. Cost and freight offers were some what irregular, but about unchanged on the average. including Santos 3s and 5s, part bourbon. at If. soc and Rio Is at 12 40c.
 The early cables showed no cnange in Rio exchange with the Rio market un- changed to 250 reis lower and Santos 2o reis lower to 75 reis higher. Later cables quoted Santos net unchanged to 325 res lower and Rio 50 to 75 reis lower. Bra gillian port receipts. 24.000, Jundlahy re- ceipts 1000; Santos cleared 14.000 for New Orleans and 5000 for Galveston.
 LONDON MONEY
 LONDON, March 20.--Bar silver. 32 + q per ounce. Money. 2h per cent. Discount rates, short and six months bills, 3-16 per cent.
 HORSES AND MULES
 EAST ST. LOUIS. Ills, March 20.- Horses steady to strong; mules steady: quotations unchanged.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON FUTURES
SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS March 2o.-Spot cotton
 quiet, 12 points lower. Sales on the spot. 66; to arrive, 52. Low middlins, 30.13c middling, 30. ssc; good middling. 31. 3Sc. Receipts. 5,54o; stock, 174,9S5.
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MONEY MARKET

NEW YORK March 20.-Cail money easier: high s. low 5. ruling rate s. closing bid 61a. offered at 5%. last loan 6h, call loans against acceptances A.. Time loana firm; mixed collateral 60-S0 days 5A o g.. 4-6 months bA @5h. Prime mercan- tile paper s.
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METAL MARKET

NEW YORK. March 2o.--Copper steady; electrolytic spot and futures. 17A @17Ac. futures, 49.2594s soc. Iron steady. un- changed. Lead steady; spot. s .25@S. soc. by delivery, Sc. Anthony spot. s.75@ 8.87c.
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noREMUs. DANIEL & co.

NEW YORK. March 2o.-Stocks: A mar ket which can act as this one did today In Wiggly is in a pretty strong position. Minor steels receiving more attention and
 to be one of the cheapest stocks in the still heard on Reynolds sprnss which Is ness Pullman looks to be one of the cheapest of equipment stocks. and there is said to have been some very good buy
 Cotton: There has been considerable liquidation during the past two , or three ,s selling well. But 1t lacks the snap and ac- tivity which we would like to see. For that We arc without a positive opinion though rather inclined to antici- pate steadiness for the present.
 Spots are inactive, demand is ns,no ilght put in belief is growing that freezing temp&era- era lures have destroyed many weevls. Tha final ginning figures. while about as ex- pected, serve to emphasize the smallness of supplies and is therefore of sentiment tai effect.
 Chicago grain: Wheat was firm and made a small net gain. Demand was zen ficial observation gave the impression that the buying was of good character. Export business both yesterday and today, ex- ceeded expectations, the most encouraging feature from the standpoint of the holder being an improvement in the demand TOT hard winters. Gulf premiums for this kind of wheat were quoted 2c higher. Corn ad- yanced fractionally. although there was good commission house selling on minor rallies. Export demand showed some lm- provement, and while figures have not yet been published of todays trade. the total will probably reach substantial amount. There was a lack of pressure in oats as . result. no doubt, of the damage reported from very low temperatures in territory where the new crop has sprouted.-Dore- mus, Daniel & Co.
 STEWART'S LETTER
 BIRMINGHAM March 2o.-ouotations from Liverpool again came over diSap- pointinss this morning: futures were l0 points below dues. with sales of 5000 bales at decline of Is points in their middling. Cables from Manchester con tinued pessimistic. stating dullness with reactionary feeling existed among trad CTS. Our markets opened 10 to 20 under Mondays close better weather, which brought in overnight selling. The mar after the first hour and finished the day around the opening prices. Spots were venerAliy 10 down. with reports or busi- ress quiet in tha southern markets. Sales hales The governments final ginning fig nrea of g72a,u4S were about as expected and had little effect on values. Alabama Einned s20.000 bales against eSS,o0o last : iao S60. There furry of buying ord,rs in October on the news that the OhD river was on a rampage suggesting floods in the delta. Outside of this and nIs The weather map today was clear and w.rr,irg up but a distant forecas. from MasrinEton indicates another rainy spell for ;he western belt close by. Since the e-s eNpect nothing more than scalplng fnarket awaiting further developments but a,ntlroeut favors purchase or october on wealS perioas--s. R. stewart < Co.
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PRICECG COURTYARD ON GOOD DEMAND FOR STEEL SHARES

NEW YORK, March 2o.-Chief in- ttrest in today's sSock market cen tered in the extremely violent fluc- tuations of Piggly Wiggly stock, which opened today at 75ia, jumped to 1A and then dropped back to S2, 10 points above last nights close, in response to the apparent squeez- 3Eg of the short interest" Trad Dg in the stock was suspended by ol der of the board of governors after the market closed. this action being taken with the approval of attorneys for Clarence Saunders, president of the Pitsgly Wiggly com pany. who is reported 10 nave de- nanded delivery of 4s,000 shares of stock.
 The cratic gyraio in this issue naturally caused some unsettlement ' in the balance af the list but a good demand for the independent steel, textiles and some of the rails eventually turned prices up- ward again.
 Baldwin, Studebaker and some of the other issues ranging from two to nearly points.
 0 0 0
 Locomotives Drop.
 American Locomotive dropped T ore than a point to 1371s and n arled heaviness also was appar- s7cnt in Associated and Tidewater .Oils, Dupont and Maxwell Motors, IA, off 1 to 21a points.
 z. Sales of a block of 10000 shares rof Southern railway at 35, up T, cfeatured the trading in the railroad group other changes In which were Irregular and fractional. = Call money opened at per cent ~and advanced to 5R in the late ' .asternoon. The time money and com s.mercial paper markets were quiet .s.with no changes in rates. = Strength of French francs. which -icrossed 61a cents for the first time Fin several weeks was again the .sfeature of the foreign exchange f;market. Sterling was reactionary. demand bills being quoted at S4.69 or approximately cent below yes- g-ter days ruling rate. Hungarian eX- change dropped to 25s cents, new low record.
 g3 Financial.
 = Days total sales 1,216.o00 shares. :. Twenty industrials averaged 1O53S; net gain .02. sr High 1928, 105.3S; low 96.96. ', Twenty railroads averaged S9.60; net gain "A.
 r High 1923. 9o.6S; low s45s. a-f
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RAW SILK

NEW YORK. March 20.-Raw silk
 easier; prices per pound: Kansai. double
 extra cracks, $s. 20 Q9.35; Kansai best No. | l, $8. .95G GS. 06; Kansai No. filler. $S. 90 O 9; Shinshu No. l, $s. .S50s. 90: Canton ex. tra A. 14-16. sS.75@S 80; Shanghai China
 steam filler. gold double deer. ss.so0
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Told by Priuate Wires
HUBBARD BROS. LETTER

NEW YORK. March 2o.-tSpecial.)- Liverpool at our opening was slightly opened some to 10 points down. The trade, Liverpool and commission houses were principal buyers, while spot interests were buyers and the south were sellers. After the opening there was very little activity. There was a great deal of dis cussion regarding the effect the cold weather will have throughout the south west on the boil weevil. Some people contend that the recent warm weather would catch them unprepared and cause great damage. There is fresh news on tho strike, and we understand 1t, the meeting between the manufacturers asso- citation and textile workers will be held on Friday. Welexpect the market to be a little easier temporarily.
 Futures in. Liverpool are due: May 16. O2d. July IS .S4d.-Hubbard Bros. Co.,
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COTTON SEED OFT.

NEW YORK. March 20.-Cotton seed oil averaged lower under scattered liquidation induced by the easier trend in lard and cotton. Refiners absorbed the May offer ings. Crude marekts held steady and closed unchanged to points net lower. Sales. 16.200 barrels. Prime crude 10. 760 He; prime summer yellow spot. IF 012 soc {; May. 12.15c; July. l2.2Sc; September. 12.17c.
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INTERIOR MOVEMENT

Houston: Middling. 31. 1oc; receipts. 3,17o; shipments. 3.211: sales. 2so; stock. 146.867.
 shipments, l,76s; sales, 1850; stock. 1oo.- Augusta: MiddIing, 30. 5oc: receipts, 932.
 st. Louis: Middlins. 31c; receipts. 1,2s2: shipments. 1,SSs; ,5s;,,sts stock; s;o ls,tss' sac
 Little Rock: Middling. 30 .6oc: receipts. s5; shipments. 671; sales 5; stock, 36.7ss. Dallas: Middling. 30. Soc: sales, S4. Montgomery: Middling. 30. 25c.
 Total today: Receipts. HITS; exports, l0,228; stock, 347,451.
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Violent Fucuaon O Pggy WggH Stock Features Days Stock 7adn
NEW YORK BONDS
Railway and Miscellaneous

NEW YORK, March 20.-Following are today's high, low and closing prices of bonds on the New York Stock Exchange, and the total sales of each bond:
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NEW YORK CURB

NEW YORK. MARCH 2o.-Tollowing is the official list of transactions on the New York Curb Exchange, giving all stocks and bonds traded in:
 IndustriaIs
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.

11U006IQ 0EO8s ~ ~Oe Members New York Stock Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New York Pro- ducs Exchange. Associated Members Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders SO. licited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms given for consignment of spot cotton for de. livery,
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NAVAL STORES

|, :. SAVANNAH. March 20.-Turpentine | shipments. ss stock, l.4s3. Resin firm
 sales, SIS; receipts 647; shipments. s66; stock. 67.1Ss. Quote: B, D. E, 34. s5; F. c. $4. .s7h; H. I. K. M. $5.15; M. s5. 30; JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 2o.-Tur- pentine steady, $1.46X. Sales. SO; re- ceipts, 102; shipments. none; stock. 13,- 645. Rosin firm; sales, 668: receipts, 6o1 !; shipments. 100; stock. 159.617. Quote: B to E. $4.95; F to G, 4.97; H to M, $5; N. $6.3o; we. 60; wv. $6.6o. DULUTH. Minn.. March 2o.-Closng flax
 seed: March $2. ss% asked. May s2.s4N,
 July s2.74H asked.
 POULTRY AND PRODUCE NEW YORK, March 20.-Liye poultry
 steady; chickens by freight, IS Q 26c; fowls soc. Dressed poultry quiet and un.
 NEW YORK, March 2o.-Lard firm:
 middle west, $12.S6@1c. Flour steady:
 spring patents. $s.5o@6.75; other articles
 cH1CNGo. March eo.-poultry, alive
 lower; fowls. 2Sc; springs. 2sc; roosters. 16c.
 NEW YORK, March 2o-Butter firm: receipts, 1888: creamery higher than ex- tras. 61h @52c; creamery extras. 92 score,
 50% @51c. Eggs firm; receipts. 4s.sss: New Jersey hennery whites uncandled ex- tras. 41@44c; locally ca4lied extras. 42c. l Cheese steady; receipts. 1sS.s44 pounds.
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NEW YORK COTTON FUTURES NEW YORK, March 20.-The .marke
NEW ORLEANS COTTOl

NEW ORLEANS, March 20.-A some what better opinion of weather conditions over the belt was mainly responsible for depressions in the price of cotton today. The forecast of some warming up In tenn the belt of the latest area of low pressure to appear in the northwest were the main conditions over the belt. In the late trad ing 1t was plain that the selling was due mainly to hopes of better weather map in the morning. At this stage the market reached it's lowest levels. s0.4oc pound
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NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. March 2o.-Followng are today's sales. high. low and closing prices of stocks listed on the New York Stock E.Xchnnge:
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES

changes irregular. Quotations in cents: Great Britain. demand 4.s9, cables 4.ssN 6o-day bills on banks 4.S7. Francs de, mand e.4eh, cables 6. 50. Italy, 4.S5 and 4s5M. Belgium, 5.60 and 5.6o1.. Ger, many .oo4sH and o9ssAs. asan Holland. 3s ss;aa A Denmark, 1s12. Switzerland. 1s.6O spain A. Greece. l. Poland. .oo25 | Czecho -Slovakia, 2.s7. Argentine. S7.07. Brazil, II. 25. Montreal. s7 9-ls.
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OIL CITY REPORT

OIL CITY REFOkT OIL CITY, Pa., March 20.-Credit bal- ances $4; runs. 69,104; averages, 56,772s shipments, 111,830; average. 54,S2S.
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shed protection. It holds the snow
spring, preventing floods and spring
freGhots and serious erosion of the
soil.
Fire Is Worst Enemy
The worst enemy of the forest
is fire. which, in some years, has
amounted to thousands Of dol ars Of
actual loss and incalculable damage
to watersheds and destruction of rare
beauty spots. No one goes to n burn
ed, desolated mountainside for recre-
alton. but all select the beauty spots
clothed with green and strong with
the pungent odor of pine and spruce.
In spite of one OF the drlest seasons
of record in 1922. there were only 81
fires in and near these five National
Foresest; but % of them were caused
by human agency and. therefore pre-
ventable. Ten of these started. as Il
result of unextinguished camp fires
and five from the cnrelessness of
smokers.
State Shares in Receipts.
One-fourth of the money taken in
from all sources, timber sales. graz
ing permits, summer hotel and res
dence permits. is returned to the state
treasury and distributed to the coun-
ties in which the forests are located.
and placed in h road and school
funds, so from every angle these
National Forests are a real asset to
the state.
Every one enjoys the beauties of
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Travellers
Delighted
With Game
In Region
Deer, Elk, Bear, Mountain
Shep and All Kinds of
Birds Prove Never End
ing Attraction.

en- In the unprotected areas during
the open season. People are more and
more enjoying the sight OF wild ami.
mails in the open and are realizing
it is more difficult but also more
than with Il CUR A live elk is
worth a hundred lead ones at any
line for only n few secure benefit
from the dead one while ndr
may see the living one. A game
poacher is truly an enemy of the best
interests of the state.
These five forests play a real econo-
mic part in the state for they furnish
pasturage in summer for S9,327 cat.
tie and horses and 1916, 245 sheep.
These animals are grazed under 956
separate permits issued to individuals
and companies who have established
a right to the use of these ranges,
or are just beginning to use them.
Lumber Business Growing
The Sill, $50, 900 #. b. NJ. of timber
in these National Forests holds a vital
place in the development of the state.
About one-eigth of this is protection
forest n may not be cut but the
rest is being removed under proper
regulations and is put t commercial
use. There are very large operations
on the Medicine Bow and Washable
Forests where hundreds of thousands
of r. r. ties are cut each year, floated
down the streams or hauled out by
rail. treated within the state. The
cut during 1929 amounted the 81, 9O7,-
900 IT. b. NJ. which is far below the
annual growth. The cutting of tim
Der under Forest Service regulations
assures a constant supply of wood
products year after year for all time
for local industry. Perhaps the great.
est value of the timber is in water
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and users of the forest and this is
one Of the reasons why the fires HSSs
no greater in number and did so littie
damage the past ason \ total Of
IO9 acres of land inside the forests
and rs adjoining the boundr!es, was
burned over and the damage amount.
ed to $4,000.
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the forests when in them and knows
hat the wood products are essential
to the Industrial life of the state and
yet there are some so thoughtless as
to endanger all these things by be
ing careless with fire. However, in
general. there has beon the most
hearty cooperation by the settlers
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) Forests
Had
Campers In
One Season
Medicine Bow, Hayden,
Big Horn, Washakie
and Shoshone Visited
By Many Tourists
By II. N.
Chief of Public Relations,
u. S. Forest Service

Good roads in Wyoming are
absolutely necessary in this
day of automobiles and motor
trucks, both for the economi-
cal handling of the ordinary
business and to take care Of the long
distance travel. The United States
forest service in CONJUNCTION with the
bureau of public roads, state high
way department and various counties,
is constructing roads and highways
through the National Forests of the
state, making connecting links that
have long barred the way 10 through
traffic.
The Burfalo-TensIesp rosd across
the Bighorn National Forest will at
tract thousands of people travelling
from the Black Hills and plains
horn basin and on to Yellowstone
Park, or coming back hat way on
the return. The Woods Landing road
across the Medicine Bow Forest is
a part OF the Rocky Mountain High
way and some 10000 people tho past
season selected that route on their
way to Moth lark in Colorado, the
North Platte FLYER and western
wyoming. This Extraordinarily
Lake road has opened up those rare
beauty spots, the lakes and snowy
range Of the Medicine Bow Forest and
hundreds of people in the southern
part of the state are enjoying rial
recreation in that region. Perhaps
no more interesting region has been
made accessible than that traverscl
by the Twogwotee Pass road just
finished his season through the Wa
shake Forest. The marvelously beau
tlful Brooks Lake with the surround
ing cliffs and green forests is a gem.
and the view of the Teton noun
tains, as you descend into the Jack
Pass. is not surpassed in any coun-
try. Then there is the Hoback Canon
road in course of construction, that
recreation in hat region. Perhaps
will make the trip to Jackson Hole
n pleasure, and the road being con
structed up Wind River from River.
ton to Thermopolis thai will eliminate
the Birdseye trail over Copper Noun
tain. These several roads will make
the trip to northwestern Wyoming
and the Yellowstone Park a real
pleasure.
New Road up Shoshone.
The high standard road to be con.
structed up the North Fork of the
Shoshone River above Shoshone Dam,
to be begun in 1928. will give joy TO
the visitor on his way across the Sho-
shone Forest past these wonderful
rock formations. along the rushing
stream and through the green for
estes on his way to Yellowstone Park;
and the road up the South Fork OF
the Shushone RE will make a trip
into that region a pleasure and open
up to the public a.portion of the for
est, IN to this time. not easily reach.
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and birds. Deer. elk, bear, mountain
sheep, and uch birds as grouse, sage
hens and eagles are a never ending
attraction when seen in the open.
Wyoming is the one place left in the
United States where big game may
be seen in the game refugees, or nunt-