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Show Scenic Country as Part of Yellowstone C3 W3 & Jackson s Hole Section Wanted in Park MAP Eliows proposed enlargement of the Yellowstone National park and the development of a "southern entrance j , through the Jackson's Hole country. The heavy black winding line marks tho boundary of the Jackson's Hole , country. ; j I i! YELLOWSTONEvPAfeK Wkrlff'- A j Jeton Pass 1 , " Southern Entrance Would Provide Tourists View of Beautiful Country. AN" EXTENSION of the boundaries of Yellowstone park to include the scenic beauties of the Jackson Hole country was the object of a bill Introduced by Representative Prank W. Mondell of Wyoming: during the Sixty-fifth congress. The bill was slaughtered with hundreds of others when the congress adjourned last Tuesday, Tues-day, but it will probably be revived and put before, tbe next congress. Yellowstone , park now includes a territory ter-ritory in northwestern Wyoming- sixty-two sixty-two miles north and south and fifty-four miles east . and west. It laps over the boundaries of Wyoming- about two miles into Montana on the north and west, and into Idaho on the west. With ' the pro- pos.ea extension snown on me map tna park would be enlarged by a third and add to the already bountiful natural attractions at-tractions of the park the beautiful mountain moun-tain scenery, the hunting and fishing grounds of Jackson Hole, which abound with big game, and Jackson lake. At present there is only one entrance to YelloV"stone park which interests Salt L,ake the western entrance, reached via the Oregon Short Line railroad. Thousands Thou-sands of tourists enter the park every season through this entrance and make tho tour over the park in stages or automobiles, au-tomobiles, returning- to the same entrance to resume thefr railroad travel, or crossing cross-ing the park to the eastern entrance Hnd boarding the Burlington railroad. With the exception of the Northern Pacific railroad, rail-road, which reaches the park in the north, these are the only entrances and exits for the transcontinental traveler. Under the proposed extension a road would be built by the government connecting con-necting with the present road near the northern end of Yellowstone lake, skirting skirt-ing the eastern shore of the lake, foilow-insr foilow-insr the winding course of the Yellowstone river, crossing the present boundary of the park, through Two Ocean pass at an elevation of 8300 feet, and then through the wild and mountainous sennery of the Jackson Hole country to Moran, where it will connect with the rresent road leading to Jackson, following the Snako river, turning to cross the Teton pass and out to Victor, Idaho, a termina' of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line railroad. The proposed road is shown by broken road lines on the map. This Inauguration gives to the tourist who visits Yeellowstone park from the western entrance an opportunity to see all the marvelous works of nature in the Yellowstone and also to travel through tho beautiful scenery of Jackson's Hole. Complaint has often been made that ; Yellowstone pork hrs a discouraging , sameness in its scenery. The geysers and 1 waterfalls of the park are, of course, unique and distinctive, but in the tedious traveling over the roads by stage or auto the gray similarity of the roadside scenery soon palls. This condition is not met with In the Jackson's Hole country. Here are a rapid succession of changing scenes i mountainous gorges, fragrant forests, rushing mountain streams and frequent jewel-like lakes nestling up against towering tow-ering cliffs. Jackson's Hole is a sportsman's paradise. para-dise. True lovers of hunting and fishing , make annual pllcrimages irom all over j the world to spend a few days In this abode of the wild. Bears big grizzlies elk. deer, mountain goat, foe panther and wildcat, the mountain lynx and innumerable innumer-able other species infest the wlid portions por-tions of the country in abundance. Trout -the big kind throng the mountain streams, and the devotee of Izaak Walton can find here a real contest with a game member of the finny tribe. Tho most Important feature of this proposed road to the people of Utah, Idaho and. Salt Lake City is that the tourist, after completing the trip through Jackeon Hole, will leave the park through Victor, ,boarding the Oregon Short Line, and. in nine cases out of ten,- will come to Salt Lake for a few days' rest. This means a big deflection of tourist trade to Salt Lake City and vicinity. The tourist business is an industry in itself, and the added increase in the number of ! visitors to this section will bring new ! money and new homes. Salt Lake will profit by this extension and it Is up to Salt Lakers to get behind Representative Mondell and help him get the bill through the next session. |