• TOURIST TRAVEL
IS HEAVY TO
YELLOWSTONE
YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo., Aug.
4.—Travel in Yellowstone national
park, always the best barometer of
\^cation travel in the west, gives
every promise of making 1920 the best
tourist season on record.
♦ It is a significant fact, too, that most
of the visitors to Yellowstone this
year have been no casual “flitters,”
hurriedly scanning the wonders of this
park, then hastening home on a return
ticket, but are tourists in the broadest
sense of the term, making the grand
circle of the west and learning the
wonders of their country as never be
fore.
Persons entering Yellowstone from
the north at Gardiner, Mont., and from
"*^e west at West Yellowstone, Mont.,
in almost all cases have been around
by Los Angeles, then up to San Fran
cisco, Portland and Seattle, perhaps
into Glacier national park, and inter
vening cities. They go out to Salt
Lake City and Denver. Visitors com
ing in from the east by way of Cody
already have seen Denver, Colorado
Springs, Rocky Mountain national
J^park and the Wyoming cities, and con
tinue their journey to the Pacific coast.
Travel from the south through Jack
son’s Hole and Snake river valley has
been restricted by road trouble, but
a few veteran motorists have made
the journey, finding ample compensa
^ tion in the beautiful scenery of the
Tetons, which soon will be made a
part of the “Greater Yellowstone.”
Never before have the Yellowstone
roads been opened to travel so early
under such difficult conditions as this
year. The extremely hard winter,
which caused much suffering among
the wild animals, piled 4JJ feet of snow
in Sylvan pass on the east, Dunraven
pass on the north and the Snake river
valley on the south, but thoroughfare
was provided in excellent time. Heroic
efforts were necessary, of course. A
snow shovel was improvised to meet
the situation, being contrived from a
paterpillar tractor and sheet iron.
Nearly two-score road crews were put
to work mending the soft spots with
stone and earth, and tourists received
the benefit in being able to make the
entire loop tour without danger or dis
eolnfort.
Sylvan pass was opened first, almost
the entire road force of the park being
mobilized there in co-operation with
the citizens of Cody, to accommodate
the great number of people coming
into the park by way of Cody, Chey
enne and Casper. The road was
opened on June 17; the earliest pre
vious date was June 20.
Snake river came next. The first
car passed through on June 28.
Dunraven pass, the beautiful scenic
route from Yellowstone canyon to
Mammoth Hot Springs by way of
T^wer falls and the Roosevelt country,
^an exceedingly difficult mountain road
which reaches an altitude of 8,900 feet,
was opened July 1. Visitors had great
sport snowballing and taking pictures
of the drifts which bordered the road,
dwarfing the big motor busses.
It was necessary to close Dunraven
pass two days later, when a very warm
day made great headways in the snow
banks, producing soft spots in the
road that were considered dangerous,
but those were remedied in a brief 24 ;
hours and the pass was opened again, j
Beginning slowly, travel in the park
picked up quickly and soon passed |
last year’s figures. On July 6, wrhen
the gates had been opened oficially
for less than three weeks, 11,702 per
sons had entered Yellowstone, corn
spared with 10,079 last year. The
number of motor vehicles admitted
>vas exactly the same, but the season’s
daily average was showing a steady
growth. The total number of automo
biles admitted to July 6 was 1,736.
Shower and tub baths at the Club
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Meals well cooked and properly
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BANDIT LOCKS BANK
OFFICIALS IN YAULT
• AND HELPS HIMSELF
STARBUCK, Wish., Aug. 4.—A lone
bandit, wearing amber glasses, entered
the Starbuck bank and after locking
the cashier, C. M. Zintheo; the book
keeper, Miss Gladys Brotherton of
Walla Walla, and C. H. List, a cus
tomer, in the vault, robbed the cash
drawer of between $3,000 and $3,500,
all in bank notes under $100 denom
ination.
Zintheo released himself and the
others from the vault with the aid of
a screwdriver within five minutes by
taking the plate off the combination
and moving the tumblers with his
hand.
STUMPS AND SAWDUST
PRODUCE TURPENTINE
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 4-One of the
big tasks of the companies engaged
in making turpentine from stumps
now standing in what once were
Louisana’s lumber sections, is mak
ing a high percentage of recovery.
The utilization of the stumps and
saw dust which in the past were con-1
sidered waste, is pracitically a new:
business. At any rate, it has not
been developed to a state of perfec
tion. This was shown during the past
year by the Kentwood Pine Reduc
tion Company, explains that the first
equipment with which the company
operated recovered one to one and a
half barrels of retort from a cord of
wood. Improvements have made it |
possible to greatly increase the per
centage of recovery.
“It’s all in knowing how!” Mr.
Weaver said. He believes the waste |
of products in America is nothing j
short of criminal.
OREGON MILLS WILL
SOON RESUME WORK
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore., Aug. 4.—
The mills of this section, which have
been closed on account of car short- i
age, probably will be in operation
within a few days, although the car
situation has not greatly improved.
MYSTERIOUS THEFT
WAS NO THEFT AT ALL
MILLBURN, N. J., Aug. 4.—When
Albert Wisman, ticket agent of the
Lackawanna railroad here dropped
his pencil behind a desk in the ticket
office, he solved a mystery of the
“theft” of $303, which had been puz
zling Milburn police and railroad de
tectives for a week. Wisman moved
the desk to recover the pencil and
found the money lying in a roll on
the floor. The “robbery” was reported
last week. Wisman was certain that
he had placed the money in the safe !
the night before.
The Alaskan Grill caters to partic
ular people in high class bakery
goods. 20-tf
SOUTH AMERICA
FISH STREAMS
TO BE EXPLORED
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 4.—
Perhaps the biggest fishing trip of
the year is that on which Dm William
Ray Allen of the University of In
diana has set forth.
Dr. Allen is on the way ta South
America to explore its streams for
rare fishes.
He expects to remain there for six
months or more fishing with a net,
hooks, dynamite or poison—any way
to get the most fish in the shortest
time.
The Indiana fisherman expects to be
a month going from Callao, Peru, to
Porto Jessup. There he plans to se
cure a canoe and with the aid of
Indians to reach the region of the
Ucagle river, where gasoline launch
es can navigate. He expects then to
descend to the head of steamer navi
gation, and thence to Iquitos, arriving
in August.
More fishing about Iquitos in the ,
Maranon. as this part of the Amazon
is called, is on his schedule. Thence
he proposes to work his way up
where the river breaks through the
Cordilleras, at the Pange de Mauseri
and will recross the Cordilleras to
reach the coast in Northern Peru or
southern Ecuador.
The expenses of Dr. Allen’s trip are
being borne in part by the University
of Indiana and it is called its con
tennial expedition in South America
as the university is this year cele
brating the 100th anniversary of its
founding. Dr. Allen’s home is at
Hartford City, Indiana.
MERCURY PLANT IN
OREGON DEVELOPED
BY SEATTLE CAPITAL.
GOLD HILL, Ore., Aug. 4.—The War
Eagle Mining Company of Medford, a
Seattle concern recently taken over
by local people, has let a contract to
W. H. Stickel of Gold Hill to burn
200,000 brick at the mine 12 miles
north of Gold Hill to be used in the
construction of a 30-ton Scott mercury
furnace on the works.
The property, consisting of 36
claims, known as the Utah group of
mercury mines, was purchased by Salt
Lake City men in 1915 from the orig
inal locators and later sold to the
Seattle men who developed the prop
erty. The mine is equipped with two
12-pipe mercury furnaces with 10-ton
capacity and has been a steady pro
ducer since 1915.
The present equipment has been
used only on high grade ore, running
beter than 17 per cent, but with the
completion of the Scott furnace ore
running as low as 2 per cent can be ,
reduced at a profit, with mercury sell- ,
ing at present prices of from $80 to
$90 per flask of 75 pounds.
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