Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and Return: Made in the Summer of 1875U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 - 155 страници |
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2d term abundant alti Armell's Creek August Bad Lands Baird bank beds birds bluffs Box Elder Bridger Mountains buffalo Camp Baker Camp Lewis cañon Carboniferous Carroll road chron clays Cone Butte Coues crater Cretaceous Crooked Creek crossed Deep Creek deposits distance east Ellis exposure farther feet Fork Fort Ellis Fort Pierre fossils Geyser Basin grass gray height hills Judith Gap Judith Mountains Judith River large number latitude layers limestone Linn Little Belt Mountains Little Rocky Mountains miles Miocene Missouri River Montana Montana.-Date Mount Washburne Musselshell Musselshell River nearly Observed double altitudes occasionally party passed plains pools prairie quartzite range ravines reached rise rocks sandstone seen Semi-diam September shales shell side slates slope species springs strata stream summit thickness timber trachyte trail tudes Upper valley Wood Wood.-Bar Wood.-Computer yellow Yellowstone Lake Yellowstone Park Yellowstone River
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Страница 37 - The Secretary may, in his discretion, grant leases for building purposes, for terms not exceeding...
Страница 37 - SEC. 2. That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.
Страница 37 - Gardiner's rivers; thence east to the place of beginning is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Страница 37 - Lake ; thence south along said meridian to the parallel of latitude passing ten miles south of the most southern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence west along said parallel to the meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western point of Madison Lake; thence north along said meridian to the latitude of the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner's Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning...
Страница 27 - Upon our arrival in the basin, we found several persons already encamped, and a whisky-trader snugly ensconced beneath his 'paulin, spread in the shelter of a thick pine. The visitors prowled about with shovel and ax, chopping and hacking and prying up great pieces of the most ornamental work they could find; women and men alike joining in the barbarous pastime.
Страница 37 - ... as shall require the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors; all of the proceeds of said leases, and all other revenues that may be derived from any source connected with said park, to be expended under his direction in the management of the same, and the construction of roads and bridle paths, therein.
Страница 37 - He also shall cause all persons trespassing upon the same, after the passage of this act, to be removed therefrom, and generally shall be authorized to take all such measures as shall be necessary or proper to fully carry out the objects and purposes of this act.
Страница 36 - ... the edification of all. The treasures of art and beauty, cunningly contrived by the hand of nature, are in process, of removal to territorial homesteads, and the proportion of material destroyed to that carried off is as ten to one. Hunters have for years devoted themselves to the slaughter of the game, until within the limits of the park it is hardly to be found. I was credibly informed by people on the spot, and personally cognizant of the facts, that during the winter of 1874 and 1875, at...
Страница 36 - ... spring. A continuance of this wholesale and wasteful butchery can have but one effect, viz, the extermination of the animal, and that, too, from the very region where he has a right to expect protection, and where his frequent inoffensive presence would give the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. The cure for these unlawful practices and undoubted evils can only be found in a thorough mounted police of the park. In the absence of any legislative provision for this...
Страница 37 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the head-waters of the Yellowstone river...