The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-02
GREATER TOURIST
TRAVEL TLOOM|NC
FOR coming SEASON
Northern Pacific Officials Ex.
pect Increase Of IS per Cent
Over Last Years Total
NEW PARK An ATTRACTION
Grand Tetons Playground and
It's Majestic Mountains and
Lakes to Be Open

st. Paul, April 2.-Vacation travel
through the Northwest and Pacific
Northwest in 1929 will be fully IS per
cent greater than the similar travel
in the tourist season of 1928, in the
opinion of E. E. Nelson. passenger
traffic manager Of the Northern Pa
cific railway.
The forecast is based on requests
in the central and eastern states.
These requests already have devel-
oped into large booking for organ
ized tour and party trips, the railway
company officials said. Individual
requests also are unusually heavy this
spring. indicative of the stimulus in
the travel trend.
Despite the unprecedented travel
to Yellowstone National Park in 1923,
when 230. 1884 persons visited the park,
an increase Of Is per cent over the
preceding year. park travel this year
will establish new records, Northern
Pacific passenger department officials
predicted.
Dude Ranches an Attraction
Dude ranches. now representing an
organized industry in the Rocky
Mountain area, and recreation centers
and cities in the playground OF
America" In the Pacific Northwest
will be visited by thousands of tour
lists, the carly inquiries and bookings
indicate. 45
Travel will be encouraged also by
more than a score of large conven-
tions which are to be conducted in
the Northwest and in the Pacific
coast cities. The Elks and the Shrine
conventions at Los Angeles and the
American Bankers association con-
vention at San Francisco will draw
hundreds of members to the North
west en- route to the meetings or re-
turning to their homes in the east.
Many of the organization members
will visit Yellowstone and other ma
tional parks as side trips.
Yellowstone Park has been brought
forcibly to the attention of the ma
tion because Of the development late
In the last year of a mammoth new
geyser. This geyser erupts for four
and one-half hours each day, and
throws a stream 80 feet in diameter
and from 60 to 80 feet high, which
spreads out in the shape of an UNI
brella. The water temperature is 200
degrees and as It runs away it makes
a stream eight feet wide and one foot
deep, Secthing and boiling for great
distance. Because of the remark
able phenomenon, some Of the late
tourists in 1928 gave this geyser the
unofficial name of Wonder Geyser"
because it has no equal in the world.
Old Faithful Geyser, still holds It's
remarkable attraction for tourists.
Grand Teton Draws
Another development during the
winter, which has turned the eyes of
tourists to the Yellowstone Park re-
gion this year, is the announcement
Of the creation by legislative enact
ment OF Grand Teton National Park,
which is located south Of Yellow
stone and can be reached readily by
a side trip which will be afforded
this season by the Yellowstone Park
Transportation company. Grand Te-
ton National Park contains the spec
tacular Teton range of mountains
with its unrivaled picturesqueness.
The eccentricities of the last win
ter tended to make Yellowstone this
year more attractive than ever before.
The lack Of snow early In the season
encouraged the animals to remain
within the park boundaries. But later
heavy snowfall came, preventing the
usual migration. The park. therefore,
this spring is filled with animals
which will entertain the tourists this
year.
The Pacific Northwest, with Mount