The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-05-17

built on the proposed highway lead
} ing from Red Lodge to Cooke City.
"On top is found two more popular
places for the tired tenderfoot. CAM
sawtooth, run by F. |. Johnson
nestles in the Shoshone national for.
est in Wyoming. At the present time
it must be reached by horseback, as
1t is go miles from gasoline" After
the mountain road is completed it will
be six miles from a fine auto high
way.
Camp Beartooth, the fourth Red
Lodge resort, is on the shores of Bear
tooth lake, in the very heart of the
Rockies. W. R. Hicox has built a
coy camp at this scenic spot, under
the shadow of the Bears Tooth" ap-
propriately named by the Indians, and
whence the name for the entire region
originates.
Riche1 Lodge and Camp Sonia will
open for the season the last of this
month, and the other two, which are
on the mountain heights, will be
opened about the middle of next
month. Sawtooth and Beartooth have
to depend on the mountain trails and
usually considerable amount of work
must be done in order to get the
horses over them the proprietors not
getting any assistance from the Sho-
shone forest reserve officials.
The charm Of both Camp Sawtooth
and Camp Beartooth lies in the fact
that they are real western mountain
resorts and lie far from the ordinary
track of civilization. They are
unique.
The Beartooth resorts named are
each distinctive. No section of the
west has accommodations more varied
than do these. Dudes can take their
choice and firing of one form of
amusement, can move from one to the
other and enjoy the charms and novel
features of the mountains.
Throughout the foothills are found
cabins built by people for summer
homes. Camps are also maintained
for gatherings of different organiza-
tons and this feature of recreation is
only in its infancy. The mountains,
like the national parks, belong to the
people and they have the privilege OF
using them if they SO desire.
The proposed Red Lodge-Cooke City
road, while it has been long, uphill
struggle to promote, looks more feas-
ible each week and doubtless will be
a fact shortly. 1t is a large under
taking, but one that is not only
economic but necessity. The move
ment was started several years ago
not with the intention of creating q
new entrance to Yellowstone National
park, but so as to open up the rich
mining which at present lies dormant
in the region of Cooke City But 9
third angle is the fact that it also
opens up the Beartooth region to the
pleasure seeker.
The proposed road will start at the
Red Lodge city limits and after dis
lance of some Is miles, all of steady
ascent, will curve gracefully onward
and upward along the side of the
mountains until it reaches the top
None of the grades will exceed 5 pei
cent in rise and any motor vehicle will
easily negotiate the climb to al
elevation of 10,960 feet, the highest
point of any continuous piece of road
way in the Rocky mountains.
The road from Red Lodge to Cooke
City is exactly 641a miles in length
and about half lies in the state O.
Montana and one-half in Wyoming
The survey made under direction o.
the government last summer is per
manent and calls for roadway of Il
feet in width, with extra wide curves
and permanent bridges and culverts
The proposed cost is $1,943,200 anc
this appropriation is at the presen
time being asked for in the Nationa
capitol
The government survey made las
summer was under the direction O.
the department of agriculture and cost