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now in far better shape than ever before. Nearly all the old wooden 

 bridges and culverts have been replaced by concrete, and the roadways 

 straightened and widened. 



In the Crater Lake National Park the Army engineers are also in 

 charge of road construction, and during the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1915, expended a total of $122,000. This work has made accessible to 

 tourists a number of very interesting views of the lake along the rim, 

 and has resulted in good roads being built to all the important entrances 

 in the Park. The War Department is asking for $100,000 for the next 

 fiscal year, to be used largely in surfacing the roads already completed. 

 The hotel which has been in course of erection for some seasons is now 

 practically finished, and if plans which the supervisor of the Park is ac- 

 tively pushing for a new road from Medford to the western entrance of 

 the Park are worked out by the State authorities. Crater Lake will be 

 accessible next season more fully than it ever has before. 



The Rocky Mountain National Park was opened this summer and had 

 its dedication last August under the chairmanship of Enos Mills, which 

 was very largely attended. The State of Colorado, and the city of Den- 

 ver in particular, has taken a keen interest in the development of this, 

 the most eastern of our National Parks, and it is expected that from its 

 accessibility the number of tourists visiting it will be much larger than 

 visit any of the other parks. 



In the Glacier National Park the most important development during 

 the past year was the opening up of the new Many Glaciers Hotel at 

 Lake McDermott. Appropriations are being asked for a total of about 

 $45,000 to improve the roads on the east side of the Park, making these 

 new improvements more easy of access to tourists. Congress is also be- 

 ing asked to appropriate $45,000 for the construction of a road along 

 Lake McDermott, at the foot of Gunsight Pass, with the ultimate plan 

 that a good automobile road will be built across Gunsight Pass to con- 

 nect up the east and west sides of the Park. 



I feel that all of the friends of the National Parks are to be con- 

 gratulated in securing the services of Mr. R. B. Marshall, former chief 

 geographer and head of the topographic branch of the Geological Sur- 

 vey, who now becomes superintendent of National Parks, succeeding Mr. 

 Mark Daniels, whose personal business made it necessary for him to re- 

 sign this important post. Mr. Marshall has been closely in touch with 

 National Park work for many years and will give his close personal at- 

 tention to the development of the parks. One important plan which is 

 now under way and which will help materially in increasing an interest 

 in the parks is the proposed Park-to-Park Highway, intended to link up 

 the leading National Parks by good roads. Already much has been done 

 towards the work of connecting up the Rocky Mountains and the Yel- 

 lowstone National Parks by way of the Cody entrance to the latter. The 

 people of Wyoming and Colorado are co-operating heartily on this proj- 

 ect and every indication points to the completion of this road by next 



