Hunting at High Altitudes 



At the point of one mountain the road was 

 blocked by deep snowdrifts, and we left it to pass 

 over high benches below, where at that time the 

 snow was twelve inches deep. It took us eight 

 days to go from Crow Agency to Bozeman, and 

 owing to the snowdrifts on the direct trail, we fol- 

 lowed the Yellowstone River and crossed it three 

 times. 



At the date when these notes are transcribed, 

 August 25, 1908, there is being constructed at the 

 upper end of the Stinking Water Canon, by the 

 U. S. Reclamation Service, the highest dam in 

 the world. It is 307 feet high, and its purpose 

 is to impound the waters of this remarkable moun- 

 tain stream for irrigation purposes. The cost of 

 this dam, built of concrete, with the necessary 

 ditches and tunnels leading from it, will be from 

 four to five millions of dollars. Along the valley 

 of the stream there has been constructed by the 

 Government the first-class road with all bridges 

 needed for tourists. 



Near the locality where the elk carried away our 

 horses, at the mouth of Elk Horn Fork, is an 

 important hotel called Wapiti, and just below the 

 canon is the town of Cody at the end of a branch 

 road of the Burlington system of railroads. Near 

 the point of the mountain where snowdrifts 



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