Show HIT YELLOWSTONE 1 OVER NEW TRAIL First Train of Tourists Makes Trip Over Route Just Completed ted PIERCES WILD REGION I News of Road Kept Under Hat Hal of Builders of the System The first of tourists recently recent l I ly made n a trip lill into Yellowstone park pal over th the new nev yellowstone Y Valley rail ran roll road 11 Prom From Merced to the thc present El I Portal the thc distance i Is I 85 miles the road traversing a cOlin coun country try wonderful In iii Its scenic grandeur UI rhe The road cad Is the equal of an any In tho the mountain inter country as a scenic route routt Knowledge of or this road however however how how- ever was held in exceedingly meo meagre ro quantities b by the traveling public none nona but the railroad tl officials ever e having er traversed l It it II antI and they thy In the lIw eighteen n months devoted dc led to Its conr were wele too bu bus busy getting material over he hc almost inaccessible mountains and supplying food to the workers to tIe lIe ot vote oie time tiUte to tu publicity For over r forty miles the line skirts skirts- tIll the tIller he er very VOY edge or of the Merced above e which rise wild mountains for or from front 2000 to i 1000 feet forming a l most delightfully picturesque canyon n on The road rend too seems c ms well built of nr the tho best Dest construction and with laid out grades The Thie total cot of the the roa rood road I is around l J the mark TI It l tool took eighteen months to In complete I employed from I 1200 to 1 1500 5 01 in men OF I during luring tim that t time Much h of oC the tho Yosemite Yo Yo- semite end nd was built hullt through solid I rock a antI and the lie amount of blade black anti and I giant powder tI used oll W 8 enormous The Thc railway a will also open a new and I hitherto little known portion of the t national park larl Inn hut which possesses lS l'S e scenic attractions full fully the equal of or long famous all valley Reached h by i The lYNch lYNch-Hetch valley bounded I b by hu huge e scarred glacier walls and I adorned with numerous waterfalls waterfall C emptyIng into the Ii river 11 down o n below can eari In easily bo be reached I from the Ito end CUd of If the new railroad ntH anti and rockers Crockers Hazel Green n. n the Merced antI and groups of big tre trees e fire are all now easily ac sible to those who vho care car to 0 make malo the trip With the lug Ing ng of the thc old flog a toll ton road through the lie the northern portion of the park past Mount Hoffman Lake Lale Tuo- Tuo meadows and the high Sierra Siena beyond a n new impetus us will willI I undoubtedly edly be hl given I en to travel tru In that tion ion made pos possible by the constructIon construe construe- tIon lon of a railroad to lo the Yosemite park pail line litH 1 no |