The Carbon County news., 1928-11-08

NO HuiuLCQ buiAbN N4iNdSetAAN AiA''N
hundred and eighty-four people toured
Yellowstone National park this sea-
son. as against 200,S25 during the year
1927. or a gain of 30,159, or about 10
per cent increase over last years tlg-
ures. In spite of heavy road eonstruc-
ticn over Sylvan and Cub creek, the
eastern entrance shows an increase OF
3.142 visitors for the season, which Is
splendid showing in view Of the fact
that much unfavorable publicity was
sent out regarding the Cody road, and
the park officials themselves did not
urge travel over this route, to the end
that the road contractors would be
bothered to the least degree.
Supt. Horace NJ. Albright has had
compiled a splendid report Of the ac-
tivities in the park this season, with
tables showing travel statistics as
follows:
Thirteen thousand two hundred and
eighty-two visitors arrived prior to
June 20. the official opening date,
as compared with 1899 visitors prior
to the official opening date of last
year.
Private automobile travel was ad-
mitted at the north and west gate
WAYS on June /, and at the east and
south gateways on June Is, as COM
pared with June at the north and
west. June 19 at the east and July /
at the south last year.
The early travel was adversely al
fected by road and weather conditions.
June was unusually cold and preclpa-
tion was the heaviest of record since
1905. There was snowfall on the H.
exceeding inches in depth. 1t Is the
ONLY June on record with no clear
DAYS, but regardless of weather and
road conditions a new high record Tor
preseason travel was established.
The travel this year is classified as
follows:
Rail visitors Observation-Disclosures 41'os
Automobile visitors ---=.=-~--..-.---lo lo5,ooo
Motorcycle visitors -...-.--......-.-. lso
Visitors on horseback. afoot.s. LAG
Preseason visitors
unclassified -----.----------...----. 5'IUV
One hundred and eighty three thou
sand five hundred and sixty-five auto
mobile visitors toured the park in 5S,-
nos cars. as compared with 1896
,-;s;-,rS IN 10 055 cars last year.
Rail and motor travel, both en-
trance and exit, favored the western
gateway this year. There were o.
4o5 entrance auto visitors travelling
in 2o,536 cars at the west gate, as
compared with 58,128 travelling IN vs.
95e cars admitted at the Cody OF
eastern gateway, which was the ia
yorite entrance auto gateway prior 10
1927. Thirty-nine thousand eign1
hundred and sixty-five visitors travel
inc in 1851 cars were admitted at
the Gardiner, or northern gateway,
and 1865 visitors travelling IN 5,6o3
cars were admitted at the Jackosn
Hole or southern gateway.
The entrance rail travel shows West
Yellowstone we'll in the lead. The
rail visitors accredited to this gateway
consist of IT, 7,408 arriving via the I'm
ion Pacific railroad, 1887 via the
Gallatin Gateway from the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Pacific rail
way, and 256 via the Bozeman ter
minal of the Northern Pacific railway.
There was 13,021 visitors who en-
tered the park via the Gardiner
gateway, 1857 via the Cody or east
ern gateway, and 108 via the southern
gateway, from Lander, the terminus
of the Chicago and Northwestern rail
road
The automobile travel includes 10,-
813 visitors travelling in 1886 cars
who entered the park more than once
during the season.
A daily check of private auto en-
trance travel via the Gallatin route
was had during the period July % to
81, inclusive. The daily average was
246 persons travelling in rs cars, as
compared with a daily average of 231