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Show UTAH FIFTH IN PARK TOURISTS Nearly 100,000 Visit Yellowstone: Yellow-stone: 4256 From This State . t S;cclai Dlapatcli YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo . Oct, 13. tno person out of every thousand thous-and in the United &tat--. approximately, approxi-mately, enjoyed the privilege of tour-In tour-In : the V" liowstono National park dnrliiK the season Just C)OMd The lotal nunilcr of visitors was nearly 100.000 and they came from i i state In th' union,' all Hie ter-, ter-, litqiien and Insuliir possessions of the ; I'nltcd States, and 23 foreign countries. coun-tries. I From all of which It appears that tli- American people ;sre rapidly cotn-mi: cotn-mi: ti ;in . i j r . . I.illi.n of the western wonderlands that haVe been pre.tter-ci tu them in their primitive chaxac-ler ! hlle the rest of th- eminlry Is belnn devoted to cbninierclal, Industrial and .1 u-1 ii ii i : ii nil de t-lopmenl to materia mater-ia tirogress of nil lOnds. 08,223 I-ISITORS "See Amern :i T'lrst" Is easing t" i msre veatclnrord, u slogan, a of llioso few 'boost" organlza-itons organlza-itons that burnt d with a desire to II .ill other Americans what things of absorbing Interest their own conn-I conn-I held for tin in. It Is becoming the Mile of existence at leat the vaea-tlon-tlnie rule of life for scores and n or R of thousands ho onee thought stght-sccing and travel meant only I ' .irope." The precise 'toUi I of visitors to the park during th season whiqh opehed tune lsth r nd cl.s.-d September Septem-ber 20th, was 98.223. which figure in rxcess of any previous travel 1 total for the Yellowstone It ex-reetfed ex-reetfed the 18:M total of 81.651 and ; that hiim the biggest preylous year- by ir.r.72. the Increase being divided lmot equally between rati and nu- , t omobllu travel. l loMolill.l I I vi-s nr the tOtal If-:: travel. 33.3fS vls- rn came by the several railroads approaching the park, and 04.358 by automobile or olhr private convoy-an. convoy-an. e. The number of automobiles en-IcrlDJt en-IcrlDJt the park was 18,263. The westerh entrance to the park, vFeel rellOWStone Montana, continued contin-ued to lead In rail trawl. 17.094 peo-Drterlng peo-Drterlng the park by thrt route. The northern entrance, with 10,8(1, sme next In point of numbers and the eastern entrance third, with '...-.'i I The eastern entrance again proved ' I in attracting automobllo travel. (.039 motorists favoring Cody and the scenic Shoshone ("anyun as an .i ppro lcIi to the park t i m is run I! Whilo the tourist travel to the Yellowstone originated In all parts of th i.untrv. the frfr western states, i funks doubtless to the greater devo-jtlon devo-jtlon of their population to th outdoors, out-doors, sent by far tho greater num-I num-I ber of "sage brushers." as the auto-Imoliila auto-Imoliila .-.-irnpi rs have hen nlcknumed. Tio states of Montana. Idaho. W j ornlng. California and T'tah lead In automobllo travel. In the order or-der named. From Utah there visited th. park 3032 In 1032 automobiles, and 324 by rail Hall travel found larger represen-. represen-. tatlon in tbe middle west and the 'states of the Atlantic seaboard. The eodlag states In this respect being Illinois. New York. Ohio and Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Every state, however, was represented by both automobile and rail travel. I An interesting eommentory Is found In the variety of conveyances used by vacationing America. The I Yellowstone public automobllo camps throughout the season presented a I more comprehensive '-'automobile allow" than has ever been staged un-4T un-4T Auditorium or show-room roof. There were 123 make of automobiles represented In the motor travel and among them was to be found an amazing variety of Individual Ideas as t.p the most ronventent vehicle for following the open road. There were innumerable adaptations of modern touring cars Into houses on wheels, an. I Innui ' variations of the 'traveling automobile tramp outfit. I not to mention motorcycles, ancient 'and modern horse-drawn conveyances, and those adventurous folk who' found the greatest enjoyment touring the country on foot. .M LI 23 HOLDS RSX ltl. The largest travel entering the park In a single day In Yellowstone .history was on July 23 when 1.983 j visitors entered the park. The largest larg-est rail travel was on June 20. when 1.-23 visitors reached the park gate! by the three railroads serving the park. In view of the Increase in travel, with its Indti atlons of even greater Increase in tho future, extensive additions ad-ditions in the hotel and camp accommodations ac-commodations In tho national park aro being made for 1323 Comprehensive Compre-hensive Improvemc nts uro also being made In tho sanitation and extension Of tho public automobile camps. A large nmount of road development develop-ment work for the convenience and accommodation of the automobile! traveling public hus been undertaken' In an, a considerable portion ofi it will be pressed to completion in time for the 1923 season, in addition to the continuous upkeep and improvement im-provement of th" road system with n the park, the approach roads In the surrounding forest reserves and in the states adjacent to the pnrk. arej to have the benefit of extenslva lm-provement lm-provement at the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars I U IK Mis 'I he Iloback Canyon route. lending fr(,Mi Rock Springs and Kemmerer, Wyoming, to tho south i ntran. i-. which was opi'ni;d this year, will be in goner. gon-er. il us- In 1923. A hundred thousand thous-and dollars Is being expended by ths Federal govcrnnu nt In the Improys-ment Improys-ment of the Gallatin road, leading from Bozeman. Montana, to ths west entrance of the parlc at West Ycl-lowKtone Ycl-lowKtone The Ulaek and Yellow Trail acrons the Itlg llornn to Cody has been completed and the magnificent nrw highway through the Wind Rlvsr canyon ha been starti 1 The park service Itself has und rtakcn this year the survey for a new road between Athton, Idaho an 1 tl.e I .-r ('n-ys-i Buln. This road Is to lad through tho scenic Ttechier Hlver country which has unsurpassed natural attractions at-tractions but which has be. n Inio--cesslble to the general traveling pub-llo. pub-llo. Iyess than r0 i)eople all told, hLve ever traversed the replon In the half century ofathe park's exlstince. |