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Show YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. i - ' r;'-- - ' I Discontinuance of (Government Work for the Present Season. 'On the 20th inst., says the Livingstone Enterprise, all government road work in the Yellowstone Park . was discontinued for the season and the men were paid off. On Thursday Lieut. D.--C. Kingman, U, S. A. engineer in charge, Oscar Swanson, E. Lamartine and Jas. Blanding, foreman ofroad work, and a large number of the employes came down to Livingston. ' j The new work, accomplished- this summer sum-mer has been as follows :. Beaver Lake to Norris "Basin, seven miles; through Gibbon Canyon, two" miles ; Firehole Basin Ba-sin nine miles eighteen miles in all. ' In addition to this the road from Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs and that through Gardiner . Canyon the Golden Gate have been opened, making an additional ten miles of new road completed in the Park during this year or 28 miles in all. It is needless to say that the improvements improve-ments cover or avoid the worst original roads in the Park, and the hew work is all of the very best character a positive pleasure to travel over. The road from Beaver Lake to Norris has seven considerable con-siderable lakes in its seven miles and is called Seven-Lake road ; one of the lakes, several acres in extent, is impregnated with iron, but very pleasant to the taste and possesses healthful properties, . A few thousand dollars of last year's appropriation remain unexpended and will be used in case of emergency, such as the destruction of a bridge or a sudden land slide durinsr the winter or. snrincr. If no such necessity arises it will .be availed of for the beginning of Work in the Park next season... A road from Norris Basin to Yellowstone Fall is, in Lieut. Kingman's opinion, urgently necessary, and will be begun next year as early as possible and carried to a completion comple-tion as quickly as the appropriation will permit. Lieut. Kingman Bays that ;:all the Congressmen and other public - men who have been in " the Park this year have ... freely " : admitted that liberal appropriations ' for Park . improvement improve-ment are advisable. Even "the great objector," Holman, regarded it as the greatest economy to make large annual an-nual appropriations to improve the Park and carry on the necessary and inevitable work as rapidly as possible. No more than $23,000 at the outside has hitherto been available in any one year for road work in the Park. Double or treble that sum should be expended each year in that kind of work. Lieutenant Kingman has the very sensible sen-sible idea, which he will carry out if the appropriation be sufficient, of enrolling a j corps of section men on the Park roads. To about eight miles of road he will detail two men and a team to keep it in good repair, and employ their spare time in smoothing and graveling. A thorough sy- tem of graveling would obviate much" c-T" the inconvenience now experienced from dust and mud. |