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THE SUNDAY -OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 18, 1922 YELLOWSTONE PARK YELLOWSTONE PARK, AMERICA'S WONDER LAND, CELEBRATES FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 111 50 B Golden "Anniversary Being Celebrated This Year. DISCOVERER IS HONORED Demand Greater Than Supply Fascinating Story- of Wonderful Reserve and Scenic Beauties k Iiure for Autoists. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, June 17. In the northwest corner of Wyoming, taking In a few miles of Montana and Idaho, as well, preparations are now groins on for one of the most unique birth day anniversaries in the world. It Is a celebration in which the whole country is interested. For America's nature wonder child, Yellowstone national park, is Just SO years old this summer. It was in 1872, by an act of congress, that it was offi cially adopted as a ward of the government. Early i the fifties a solitary trapper made his way into what was then an unknown, Indian-infested and almost inaccessible re gion. He met with nature marvels that appalled him. Alternately he believed that he had stuiribled upon a corridor of the underworld, or a 6toop of heaven, as its terrors and its sublime beauties were unfolded to him. Jim Bridger. had discovered Yellowstone. Marvelous Tales Told. Unfortunately for this discovery, Jim was a man noted for the power and range of his imagination. After every trip that he made in the wilds he returned with marvelous stories; the bears that he shot were several feet larger than normal bears; the Indians whom he saw and escaped were more numerous than the whole race was supposed to be. 'It came to be so, that it was suggested that a good epitaph for him would be this simple statement: "Here LIES Jim Bridger." Then when he returned with his story of a remarkable land where rivers boiled and columns of water rose higher than the flagpole of the Virginia city and as thick around as Sequoias, people laughed at him and said it was only another one of Jim's yarns and told him to try it out on the tenderfeet. But, as it later transpired, Bridger for once in his life had actually made the tale Usb than it really was. His reputation, however, was against him and people called his discovery "the land that couldn't be." Stories Attract Attention. But Bridger stuck to his story with such a pathetic persistence that some' began to believe that such a stfange land probably ex isted, although, of course, much less wonderful than the customary ex aggerations of the man had , made it out to be. A few old-timers remembered that the Indians locally had a tradition of such a land, but it had been taken to be just a fairy story. Now it was remembered to the ad vantage of Bridger. According to Indian folk legend it was a kind of rottisserie of the gods and the soule of the wicked were supposed to be the fare that the ; supernatural cooks were getting ready. One result was an expedition, about 15 years later, to take a look at "the land that couldn't be." It was made up of David Folsom, C. W. Cook and a helper named Peterson, all stout and credible citizens. They penetrated' this startling country up to .Yellowstone lake, afterward crossing that astounding stream, the Firehole river, and as far up as the Lower Geyser basin. Wonderland Beyond Belief, But they did not get even close to the heart of the miraculous park and they didn't see the Old Faithful geyser and the wonders -surrounding it." But what they did behold was so overwhelming that they were afraid to talk about it, except to their intimate friends, so utterly beyond belief did this wonderland appear to them. Their story, however, gradually became known and at last Jim Bridger was vindicated. Shortly afterwards, at the instance of Nathaniel Pitt Langford, and under the leadership of Henry D. Wash burn, an expedition set out. Wash burn was the surveyor-general of Montana and his chief aide was Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane of the United States cavalry. Their expedition removed all doubts about the Yellowstone and their reports of the land of miracles created a Vast sensation. On a certain point under the shadow of the National Park moun tain a tablet will be erected to com memorate this expedition. It reads as follows: "On the point of land between the tributary streams, September 10, 1870, the celebrated Washburn ex pedition which first made known to the world the wonders of the Yel lowstone, was encamped, and here was first suggested the idea of set ting apart this region as a national park." Bill Creates Big Park. It was almost directly as a result of this that the park was devoted to the public. Those who at once saw in it the possibility of a great preserve pushed the agitation which gave the grounds to the whole people. The bill creating the Yellowstone National park was passed by. con gress on March 1, 1872. It had a result little expected by the framers of this law. To it may be in a large measure credited the fact that America remained an out door nation. It led to the creation of other wonderful national parks, although the Yellowstone remains the largest of all, as it was the first. ' Fortunately those who will take part in the anniversary celebration this summer will see the park al most exactly as it was in the days when it was discovered in all its virgin loveliness, BO years ago, every effort having been made to keep it as it is in nature. Even the hotel lodges are built in log cabin style. The real parkites are camp ers, however, and are to be found beside the streams and the fires making themselves comfortable. Al though Yellowstone has frosts every month in ths year, the air is so rarefied and so full of ozone that no one minds the occasional cola, while in the daytime the tempered sunlight Bheds a beneficent warmth. The only change in the park since Its opening is in the same direction as the whole country has taken. America has become an automobile nation. And the park has moved in step and laid out some of the finest roads in the country for the con venience of motor tourists. This means the - passing of the ( A - '"'.' . fStv sJft Iimillllll I 5 ' J SSSS.1S ' ri:w wri?j3etn it - -JIT IT- W ' Jt I 5 'T( I tf " V ffitl A-4II . . jrir ,f mum. WW.?. -f? - ' "fc I 'I'll s ' . - ' Photos .by GlUiams Service, N. Y. Have yon heard the call of the open road! These people have belovr at right) and they ars already pttchinc thlr tents in Yellowstone national park. At the left Is shown a magnificent view In leuowatone valley, one of many points made accessible by construction of new automobile roads, while above at the right Is a park visitor having the -time of her life giving a "handout" to a deer. picturesque stago coach of older days. The descendants of the pio neers and in many cases old pio neers themselves used to be the drivers and the Betting out of the coach with its four, high-prancing horses, the "boot" . with Its mys terious looking baggage and the bidding for the favored place on the seat beside the driver all had their thrill, which- is perhaps miss ing now In the too efficient auto mobile. It gave a wild western flavor to the proceedings, and these , old drivers taking advantage of the greenness of the tenderfoot from the east used to tell whoppers about the scenic wonders, that would have made even Jim Bridger confess that he was outdistanced as a performer upon the imagination. The favorite one was about the geyser- that spouted on a record below-zero day and got frozen into a solid column of hot ice. It may be a surprise to those who -know that almost Invariably the tourist fell for it. And it is hard to blame him. After just a brief while in this land of marvels one is ready to believe anything. The tale of the hot-water fish who couldn't be cooked because it was their nature to swim in boiling water and could only be tried or baked, was an other tale that run the hot-ice story cIobb for honors. ' The drivers and their yarns are gone. Today they would not have been eo successful anyway, for it Is no longer an unknown region and tne guidebook method of traveling is growing in vogue.. Gronp of Gnldes Provided. Besides the park authorities have provided a group of guides, well ed ucated and attractive people, young, enthusiastic over the country they know so well and better capable of pointing out the real wonders of the place than the old timers. This service was started at the sugges tion of the famous naturalist. Enos A. Mills, and has proved a great success. Since the days of the discoverers, nature herself had made changes. Some of the old geysers are no longer spouting, but new ones are taking their places. Bat the people around are still telling time by the discharges of Old Faithful and the hot springs, the Firehole river with its steaming waters, the mud vol canoes, the enchanted pools with tneir fairy-like banks and their strange depths glowing with mirac ulous colors, and, of course, the for ests with dark green and the mar velous Yellowstone lake, the G.ant falls and the most stupendous won der of them all, the Grand Canyon and the other canyons of the Yel lowstone river are as they were half a century ago. In the mean while the strange formations of crystal beds have been added to. As the water of the hot springs and the geyser flows evafiorates the minerals which are absorbed in it are deposited on the ground ani in their growth take on the most fan tastic shapes, besides being mag nificently colored. , To these wonders .the government has adUed -protection of the wild animal residents of the park which otherwise, with modern hunt'.ng methods, would- soon have been ex terminated. To the animals native to the park, others have been added and air of these bears, deer, :1k, beaver, etc, will be there to ex tend the greeting of. the original in habitants to the guests who cftme to the party. It is said that this wild animal asylum is the most suc cessful in the world and many of the shyest of the creatures have become so tame from the kind treat ment accorded them that the park is virtually a zoo only without the cages and bars. The nature guides will point out one . splendor which old-timers missed. By means of- it visitors can read the history of this fairy ground in nature's own book. In the can yons and almost on every precipice' a close look will disclose amaz-ng reading matter and on pages so huge that it is necessary to go off a distance to sge the print. This is the petrified forests standing one upon the other. .The story is wonderfully clear. At the bottom one can see distinctly the stone forest that was once green and flourishing woods. The very- sag of the branches may be seen. even the oraoks where the branches were broken. As one gazes upon it it is easy to re-enact in the mind the grim tragedy drama that hap pened there. - IVstnre Repairs Damage. Over a flourishing forest the vol canoes erupted. The lava flowed over the ground and between ,the trees. The ashes of the eruption dropped down in a steadily in creasing shower until there was no space between the tree tops and the bottom of the ground that had not been filled in. The inferno finally ended. In its own way nature made up for the damage and ruin .and while the pressure of the load of volcanic matter was turning the buried forest Into stone, the wind and the migratory birds were sow ing the, desolation with seeds and gradually; a new forest arose on top of the old one to be buried in its turn by the next greaMeruption and vdlcanic tempest. Thus tier upon tier of buried forests preserved with marvelous freshness aroso. . It is impossible not to be im pressed by .this simply and grandly told story of the tragedies and dramas of nature. Not even the buried cities under the ashes of Mt Vesuvius are as terribly grand as these entombed forests. Whoever watches 'them with a close eye will have his reward in seeing not only the forest but even the petrified bodies of somes of the animals who died under the holocaust. One of the greatest kinds of game fossils, wnicn require a good deal more than a good aim, can be hunted here and sometimes upon a cas ual walk a person can stumble upon these relics of bygone ages. It was a splendid thought which preserved these regions as a vast scenic playground, for it seems as though that was the intention of nature when she made it. On the other - hand, the nature of the ground and the character of the mineral deposits make It useless for forming or mining. Only grazing is possible and thus there Is a natural provision for the protected herds of buffalo and other wild animals who add, so much to the pictur esqueness of this wonderland. PACKARD OXJTPtJT INCREASES Production Now at Highest Point , in Company's History. The Packard Motor Car com pany, according to a statement re ceived' here from its president, Alvan Macauley, is now at the high est production and sales point of, all of its long career. And still, it is said, new orders are developing in increasing volume and indications are that the peak has not by any means been reached. Orders are. already on hand, it is pointed out, for three times as many cars as the hugs factory is capable of turning out tor immediate de livery, but to increase production additional employe's are being en gaged at the rate of 120 a day. Whereas a year ago the company was operating with a working force of approximately 3300 people, -there are today close to 7000 names on the factory payroll in Detroit,' with the number increasing every 24 hours. Sales,, records show that May brought in orders for more than 2000 of the new single-sixes against 304 orders for the same type of car during the corresponding month last year. Twin-six deliveries also revealed a marked increase during the last month with the shipment of at least 100 more uiTits than during the same month in 1921. OVERLAND DEMAND HEAVIER v Factory Employes at Toledo Now - In Market, Is Report., "Th large demand for Overland and Willys-Knight cars among our own factory employes at Toledo is one of the. most gratifying incidents of the season's business," says . a statement- from c. B. Wilson, gen eral manager of the Willys-Overland company. "It is a tribute which the men in the plant themselves are paying to the product they are ouuaing. "We have never had such a de mand in a similar period since the war. This is true also of the entire city of Toledo. Overland and Willys Knight sales in Toledo are breaking all records, and the demand through out the country continues to increase at a substantial rate. WIFE OF PROMINENT SHOE MERCHANT CHOOSES HUDSON COUPE. Handsome new car obtained by Mrs. George I. Greenfield. 19 East Nineteenth street North, from the n. I.. Boss Automobile company, local Hudson and Essex distributor. The car Is one of the handsome new Hudson coupes, me nrit oi wnica were received Here only a short time ago by the local organisation. Mrs. Green, field Is shows standing beside the car. INS AHE 157 PROCESSES USED IN MAKING TRANSMISSION. Machines Simplify Procedure but Some Hand Work Is Required in Preparing Parts. There are no leas than 157 sepa rate and distinct operations in mak ing the transraiiBSion of themodV ern motor car before the parts1 are hardened, says an article in the Chandleir Bulletin, the monthly pub lication disitributed to. owners of Chandler cars. The most precise automatic ma chinery is used in the cutting of gears, No more painstaking workman ship is expended on the entire oar, it is pointed out, than in the ma chining of the various parts that form the transmission and the dif ferential. The first operation on all gears is a process of annealing in the heat treating department to relieve the various forging strains. . After annealing the gear forgings are turned and; farmedi on automatic machines which produce in many in stances as- many as four parts at one time and do as many as six operations on each piece while it is still In the machine. -Subsequent machining consists of roughing on -nobbing machines which form the teeth. This is fol lowed by chamfering. 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