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Show mm park ! ROADS READY; Yellowstone Travel Will Bel Exceptionally Heavy This Season YELLOWSTONE PARK. Wyo.. I June 3. Thousands of inquiries re-1 gardfn'g touring conditions In Yellow-Stone Yellow-Stone National pari:, indicating ex-I ex-I CSPtlonally heavy travel this year, are j j pouring into the superintendent's of-1 flee, and prompts this announcement th( park will be open on time, despite ah unusual long, cold spring and that the roads will be in flrst- lass condition for motoring from the : very beginning of the season, j The autumn ot' 'J2l was warm and ' i dry. thus making It possible to do heavy hauling by trucks In connection j with construction work without cutting cut-ting up the roads. Thus, all of 1ht 'highways vient into the winter in splendid shape, and under the system j I of ranger patrol In the spring, to pre-) vent washing by melting ynow water,1 I they are bound to emerge from their I , winter covering in practically the I ! same condition. The park will be open to private motorists as soon as the payees are cleared of snow, but travel by rail can not be accommodated until June 20. when all of the public utilities of the park are ready for operations. On that date It Is expected that every road in the park, with tho possible exception o the Mount Washburn road, will b- open, nnd every human effort will he put forth to make accessible ac-cessible to automobiles this spectacular spectacu-lar and thrilling highway to ihe sum-! j mit of Washburn, 10.100 feet above; I tho sea. MAN I FA KK IMJrKW KSMSA 18, Always advancing, Yellowstone Na- , tlonal park will have many new fea- j j tures available foe its tourists to en-I en-I joy. better facilities for their ac-i ac-i eommodation and entertainment, and : nion opportunities for healthful rec- reution. I The old Cooke City road, leading, j from Camp Roosevelt in the direction, : of the wonderful Grasshopper Ma-'. I der, a road that has been in disrepair, I foryears on account of insufficient I j fundt to maintain it, will be repaired i this year and patrolled throughout the summer. Camps at Cooko City ami Goose Lake, and good horses,) will make the Grasshopper Glacier , easily accessible from Camp Roosc-! Roosc-! velf. The road around Runsen Peak, closed to travel since the admission1 of automobiles to the park, will be reopened thib year in improved condl-tion. condl-tion. and will make accessible the pen- : sational Gardiner canyon. second , deepest in the park. In this canyon is Osprey Falls 150 f et ono of the park's finest water oxhibitSj ELK AND BUFFALO PICTURES. The buffalo corral at Mammoth Rot Springe has been partitioned, and I this year elk will be in the reach of ! tourist cameras, as well 03 the most magnificent bulls of the buffalo herds. The i ellowstono f-'aru camp company com-pany will conduct four fourteen-day j Haddle horse tours of the trails, which year will parallel every road In the park Thoso tours will be under the direction of Tex Holm, famous,' ody guide and horseman. Also, there Will be more saddle horses avail - i able ai Mammoth Hot Springs. Old Faithful, Grand Canyon and Camp j Roosevelt, than ever before. New sid trip trails will make the marvelous i scenic summits of Mount Everts, Bun- , on ,r-:t: and Sepulchre mountain, all near h'-adquartcrs. within easy reach i of the lovers of horseback riding I New trails near the Grand Canyon I and along its rim will afford delight-I i new horseback and walking trip-in trip-in that section of the park. By way of improvement of accom- , modations and facilities for visitor the dining room of Old Faithful Inn' has been enlarged in capacity by a new log addition, 50x51 feet a very attractive and Interesting room. The I Lake hotel will bo enlarged this year by an annex containing 121 room-',, each tvith bath, but this will not bo available for use until 1923. The Camps company has enlarged Its permanent camp capacity at all I points of interest by erecting units of i attractive wooden cabins of a design recently approd by the landscape , department of the national park ser-, vice. At old Faithful the permanent perma-nent camp has iif-o! further Improved by tli ere, tun of a large amusement j hall where a fine orchestra will be employed to entertain guests and campers from the nearby automobile camp. The Transportfl-tion company has added 2u new eleven-passenger busses I and several Beven-passenger touring I tars to its already very large fleet ' Tho National park service Is en-1 larglng its public automobile camps at all points and will build several more ibis summer. The new combined ranger stations and community centers cen-ters for campers at Grand canyon and I Old Faithful have been completed by the government, and will bo ready for use at the opening of the season. Another An-other station will be built this year at' Lake Yellowstone public automobile camp. At least 70.000 private motorists are expected to visit the park In leas j than :'" days The rail travel Is bound I ) be heavy, due to the very low summer rates quoted by the great railroads serving the Yellowstone. According to plans now formed, while the National Editorial association associa-tion is visiting the park in July, tho fiftieth anniversary of the establishment establish-ment of the park will be formally celebrated In pageant and other appropriate ap-propriate ceremony. Yellowstone was the first National park In the world, and the idea that its dedication as a national playground gave to the vorld In 1872, has been utilized as a conservation conser-vation principle by many nations. The golden annlcrsary of the creation of this great park Is therefore of worldwide world-wide significance, and will doubtless be discussed wherever the preservation preserva-tion of great scenic regions with the'.r trees, flowers, animals and birds, is the subject of popular or scientific interest. |