HOTELS AND CAMPS.

The hotels and tent camps have been entirely inadequate to accommodate tourists visiting the park during the season of 1911. The National Park Inn is a three-story building located at Longmire Springs, is 125 feet long by 32 feet wide, contains 36 rooms, and by using 86 tents in connection will accommodate 225 guests. It was constructed during the spring of 1906 and was opened for business July 1 of that year. It is not properly constructed for a first-class hotel, and it is understood that the company contemplates erecting a more modern building before the opening of another season. A log clubhouse has recently been constructed near the main building. It is attractive in appearance and furnishings and is used as a recreation hall by the hotel guests. The tents used in connection with the hotel have board floors and walls, are equipped with doors and electric lights, and are well furnished. The hotel table is supplied from the commissary of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway at Tacoma and is satisfactory. A complete refrigerating plant is operated in connection with the hotel.

The Longmire Hotel, maintained on the Longmire patented tract at Longmire Springs, is a small frame building with 12 rooms. Tents are used in connection, and it is operated as a second-class hostelry and does a large business.

At Paradise Valley, a distance of 61 miles by trail and 14 miles by road from Longmire Springs, a tent camp with 60 tents is maintained by John L. Reese. This camp is run at its full capacity during the months of July and August.

At Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, a distance of 6 miles by trail from Longmire Springs, a tent camp with 15 tents is maintained by George B. Hall and does a good business.

The sanitary conditions at these camps are not satisfactory, and this defect can only be remedied by the construction of a sewer system or septic tanks.

SPECIAL PERMITS.

The Tacoma Carriage & Baggage Transfer Co. operates a stage line in the park, using 28 head of horses, three 4-seated and four 3-seated stages from Longmire Springs to Paradise Valley, and between Ashford and Longmire Springs three 18-passenger automobile stages, one automobile for transporting express and baggage, and a freight wagon. This company conducts its business in a satisfactory manner, and the equipment is as good as may be expected, considering that its permit to operate in the park is granted only from year to year.

George B. Hall conducts a livery business at Longmire Springs and uses 37 saddle and pack horses and 13 driving horses. He operates three 3-seated stage wagons between Longmire Springs and Paradise Valley, and saddle and pack trains into Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, and gives satisfactory service.

A general photographic business is conducted in tents at Longmire Springs by Mr. L. G. Linkletter, who makes a specialty of taking photographs of parties, and carries in stock a good line of park views.

Permits to operate rented automobiles in and through the park were issued to Tacoma Touring Car Co., Tacoma Auto Livery Co., Ridgeway & Hathaway, and C. E. Wakefield.

Four persons were authorized by special permits to act as guides in the park during the season of 1911.

A special-use permit was granted the Tacoma Eastern Railroad Co. for the construction of a telephone line through the park. All connections were made, and the line was in operation to Longmire Springs June 10, 1911. It is well constructed, has been kept in good repair, and greatly facilitates operations in the park.

June 1, 1911, a five-year lease was made in favor of Fred George for a small strip of land at Longmire Springs on which to construct a building to be used in carrying on an ice cream, confectionery, and camp grocery business for the accommodation of tourists and others in the park. The building, which is well located and attractive in appearance, was completed July 1, and the business has been conducted in a satisfactory manner during the summer months.

ESTIMATES AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

Estimates for the ensuing fiscal year are as follows: Salaries, $7,000; road maintenance, $10,000; trail construction, $10,000; for repair and improvement of trails, $500; protection from forest fires, $1,000; for widening the present road to 16 feet and macadamizing for its entire length, $145,000; for extending the road into Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, $60,000; for making a survey for a complete system of roads in the park, $25,000; total, $258,500.

The Government road now completed into Paradise Valley should be widened and improved before new roads are constructed, in order to make it safe for the combined traffic of stages and automobiles. The road should also be extended as surveyed and partially constructed 1 mile above its present terminus in Paradise Valley, and from a point 4 miles above Longmire Springs into Indian Henry's Hunting Ground. A survey should be made for a complete system of roads in the park with the object of extending the present road around the east and north sides of the mountain. When the survey is completed, or such portion of it as will enable construction work on the new road to be started, work may be commenced in the northwestern part of the park, thereby opening up the beautiful mountain parks on the north side of the mountain, and in the southeastern part to make connection with the road system of Yakima County. The road should be constructed at the lowest practicable elevation and if all points of interest can not be reached in this way, branch roads should be built to them. If the road is constructed at a high elevation it will be open for travel but a few weeks each year, as it will be buried in snow until late in the summer. A complete system of trails is very necessary and should be given immediate consideration. Four thousand one hundred feet of wire fence should be built in Paradise Valley and Indian Henry's Hunting Ground to form a pasture for loose stock in order that it may be kept from destroying the flora in these mountain valleys. The validity of all mining locations in the park should be ascertained and those not held in good faith canceled. All brush and refuse resulting from the construction of the Govern

ment road, mining operations, and from other causes should be burned during the wet season. Congressional action should be taken to protect the park by proper legislation from game trespass, and to provide a fine for the violation of the regulations in this respect promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior. It is further recommended that men employed to police the park be known as "park scouts,' instead of rangers, in order to distinguish them from rangers employed in national forests.

Very respectfully,

The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.

EDW. S. HALL,

Superintendent.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

GENERAL REGULATIONS OF JUNE 10, 1908.

Pursuant to the authority conferred by the acts of Congress approved March 2, 1899, and May 27, 1908, the following rules and regulations for the government of the Mount Rainier National Park, in the State of Washington, are hereby established and made public: 1. It is forbidden to injure or disturb in any manner any of the mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders on the Government lands within the park.

2. It is forbidden to cut or injure any timber growing on the park lands, or to deface or injure any Government property. Camping parties will be allowed to use dead or fallen timber for fuel.

3. Fires should be lighted only when necessary and completely extinguished when not longer required. The utmost care must be exercised at all times to avoid setting fire to the timber and grass.

4. Hunting or killing, wounding or capturing any bird or wild animal on the park lands, except dangerous animals when necessary to prevent them from destroying life or inflicting an injury, is prohibited. The outfits, including guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation used by persons engaged in hunting, killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such birds or wild animals, or in possession of game killed on the park lands under other circumstances than prescribed above, will be taken up by the superintendent and held subject to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, except in cases where it is shown by satisfactory evidence that the outfit is not the property of the person or persons violating this regulation and the actual owner thereof was not a party to such violation. Firearms will only be permitted in the park on written permission from the superintendent thereof.

5. Fishing with nets, seines, traps, or by the use of drugs or explosives, or in any other way than with hook or line, is prohibited. Fishing for purposes of merchandise or profit is forbidden. Fishing may be prohibited by order of the superintendent in any of the waters of the park, or limited therein to any specified season of the year, until otherwise ordered by the Secretary of the Interior.

6. No person will be permitted to reside permanently, engage in any business, or erect buildings, etc., upon the Government lands in the park without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent may grant authority to competent persons to act as guides and revoke the same in his discretion. pack trains will be allowed in the park unless in charge of a duly registered guide.

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7. Owners of patented lands within the park limits are entitled to the full use and enjoyment thereof; such lands, however, shall have the metes and bounds thereof so marked and defined that they may be readily distinguished from the park lands. Stock may be taken over the park lands to patented lands with the written permission and under the supervision of the superintendent.

8. Hereafter the location of mining claims under the mineral-land laws of the United States is prohibited within the park. Persons

who have heretofore acquired in good faith rights to any mining location or locations shall not be permitted to injure, destroy, or interfere with the retention in their natural condition of any timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park outside the boundaries of their respective mining claims duly located and held under the mineral-land laws.

9. The herding or grazing of loose stock or cattle of any kind on the Government lands in the park, as well as the driving of such stock or cattle over the same, is strictly forbidden, except in such cases where authority therefor is granted by the superintendent.

10. No drinking saloon or barroom will be permitted upon Government lands in the park.

11. Private notices or advertisements shall not be posted or displayed on the Government lands within the reservation, except such as may be necessary for the convenience and guidance of the public. 12. Persons who render themselves obnoxious by disorderly conduct or bad behavior, or who violate any of the foregoing rules, will be summarily removed from the park and will not be allowed to return without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the Interior or the superintendent of the park.

No lessce or licensee shall retain in his employ any person whose presence in the park shall be deemed and declared by the superintendent to be subversive of the good order and management of the reservation.

13. The superintendent designated by the Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to remove all trespassers from the Government lands in the park and enforce these rules and regulations and all the provisions of the acts of Congress aforesaid.

REGULATIONS OF JUNE 10, 1908, GOVERNING THE IMPOUNDING AND DISPOSITION OF LOOSE LIVE STOCK

Horses, cattle, or other domestic live stock running at large or being herded or grazed in the Mount Rainier National Park without authority from the Secretary of the Interior will be taken up and impounded by the superintendent, who will at once give notice thereof to the owner, if known. If the owner is not known, notice of such impounding, giving a description of the animal or animals, with the brands thereon, will be posted in six public places inside the park and in two public places outside the park. Any owner of an animal thus impounded may, at any time before the sale thereof, reclaim the same upon proving ownership and paying the cost of notice and all expenses incident to the taking up and detention of such animal, including the cost of feeding and caring for the same. If any animal thus impounded shall not be reclaimed within thirty days from notice to the owner or from the date of posting notices, it shall be sold at public auction at such time and place as may be fixed by the superintendent after ten days' notice, to be given by posting notices in six public places in the park and two public places outside the park, and by mailing to the owner, if known, a copy thereof.

All money received from the sale of such animals and remaining after the payment of all expenses incident to the taking up, impounding, and selling thereof shall be carefully retained by the superintendent in a separate fund for a period of six months, during which time the net proceeds from the sale of any animal may be claimed by