Annual Report Of The Superintendent Of The Yellowstone National Park To The Secretary Of The Interior

Author : United States Yellowstone National Park
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332988900
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1907 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Yellowstone National Park and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1907 On May 1, crews were established at Beaver Lake, Beryl Spring, Excelsior Geyser, Spring Creek, junction of Lake and Canyon roads, and on lake road 6 miles from Canyon, and a carpenter crew and small general repair crew were placed on the Tower Falls road. These crews were obliged to travel over the deep snows in the very early morning when the crust was frozen strong enough to bear the animals and wagons with the camping outfit, supplies, and tools. The travel was dangerous and men and animals suffered hardships. The greatest difficulty encountered was between Upper Geyser Basin and Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, there being more snow than for many previous years. This route was made passable on June 12, and the first traffic coach crossed the Continental Divide on June 13. The pull in snow and slush was heavy. The greatest difficulty in keeping roads in repair was in the can yon between the north entrance at Gardiner and the Mammoth Hot Springs. Two large slides containing upward of cubic yards each occurred on this road. They were removed by means of wash ing the dirt through culverts. During the extreme high water in July several sections of the guard walls on this road were washed out, and great difficulty was encountered in preventing sections of this road from being entirely washed out. Heavy guard walls laid in cement are needed in the Gardiner Canyon at several points - also at the Gibbon Falls, Virginia Cascades, Tower Falls Cliff, and on the Spring Tower Falls road. These walls are now laid in dry stone. The solid rock encasing the petrified tree near Yanceys was blasted out, leaving the tree 30 feet high and more than 20 feet in circumfer ence'. An iron fence with concrete base has been constructed around the tree and a road built connecting it with the main road. Another petrified tree near this one should be fenced, else it will be carried away piecemeal by tourists in a few years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.