Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-09 | Page 12 | Good Highways Win Visitors for Parks

I Good Highways Wa Credit forth.- J" '00 additional visitors visit-ors who were at Yellowstone park during the past season is given Rood j roads, development of the automblle industry and the "Sc.; Ame rica First" I logan. Of a total of 7'..77T tourin 8, !S 743 Entered the park by automobile, I3.fi 6 ears being used In fhtr transportation-according transportation-according to inf in:: i' on given out from it-.' department o the Interim (jver the signature Ho ! M Al-; bright sup rlniende'nt of the park. 'In.- total number of automobiles visiting vis-iting the park in 1019 wna 10,737, carrying car-rying 3.88j. constituting the previous n . ord. of the tourists visiting the park by iiirii' own means of transportation, 03 per cent earn. mplng facilities TrsvH by train was gre itlj Increased tbi season over last, the superintend-1 jjnf report shows, 10 M tourlsta pat voplxlng 'he hotel and camp resorts lim ing; iho fifin, jut closed as com-pared com-pared to 21.275 I ixt year. Th great-. great-. -i day of train travel Is given as August Au-gust 1". whan 665 visitors arrived at Ote north, west and seal gateway cities. August 2 scored with the 1 I9S visitors visit-ors Hie gre.itis number entering the park tn n single daj l'i I! h'-'ory The greatest nuo.l v of automobiles to enter th- 11""' "n any one d.ny was 73. on August The season's totul includes 74 people hikers from nearly near-ly pluces. while the total of automobile automo-bile travelers Includes those who arrived ar-rived on motorcycle, the total number of these smaller motor vehicles t. visit the park being eighty-four, carrying lifi passengers. Montana furnished the largest number num-ber of tourists to the park from imyl one state, 10.302 Idaho, with d217, mes second and I't.ah, with 31S3 .-. rhtrd on the list. Every st-itc la rep-re rep-re ted, fii ths rerls'iatlor. showed nineteen tors fn countries Bonding a -total ol :37 tourists, no of them being from Canada, The total number of automobiles; In; eluding BlScteen motoyyeles t isitli;' the park In 1917 was "7d '.. carrying 21,164, as compare:! (j the J r. ; automobiles, including eightv-four motorcycles, mo-torcycles, and their 18 7tr- passengers, this season, in ni7 i tourists reached the park by hursel.:j k or iy hiking, as compared to the 'i- this, ea r. Announcement is mads in connection connec-tion with ths superintendent's report that additional camping gr - in I n orc-modatlons orc-modatlons are to he provided by the! p: .1; management next ssnabn