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Sierra Club Bulletin 



high degree and will be considered as they come prominently before 

 Congress through the desires and activities of the people of their re- 

 spective States. It is the policy of the department not to actively seek 

 the creation of new national parks but to develop and administer all 

 such reservations accepted by Congress and intrusted to its care. 



General superintendent of national parks: Mr. Mark Daniels, gener- 

 al superintendent and landscape engineer of the national parks under 

 this department, made inspections during the year of the Mesa Verde, 

 Piatt and Wind Cave national parks, and the Hot Springs Reservation; 

 supervised the enforcement of the regulations in the parks, the laying 

 out of roads and trails, designing of buildings and structures, and the plan- 

 ning of general improvements ; provided for the establishment of a unit 

 cost-keeping system in the Yosemite National Park which has resulted 

 in considerable saving, supervised the construction of a concrete bridge 

 in the Mount Rainier National Park, and wooden bridges in the Yo- 

 semite National Park, and supplied plans and specifications for several 

 different types of concrete bridges for other parks ; replanned the road 

 sprinkling system in Yosemite, established an automobile schedule there- 

 in, designed a complete road and trail system for five of the parks, pre- 

 pared plans for a new village in Yosemite, installed a purchasing branch 

 for the several national parks in San Francisco and purchased through 

 the same materials for most of the western parks, and gave attention to 

 many other details of park administration. 



Extracts from Report of the Superintendent of the Crater Lake 

 National Park, 1915 



HOTELS 



During the season of 1915 Crater Lake Lodge was opened to the 

 public and is located directly on the rim of the lake, nearly 1000 feet 

 above the water, where comfortable quarters are available for guests. 

 The lodge is a cut-stone building containing about 60 rooms, some of 

 which contain hot and cold water and other conveniences. During the 

 season of 1916 it is proposed to build along the entire front of this 

 building, over 100 feet, a 16-foot porch and pergola, from which one 

 can look directly into the lake, nearly 1000 feet below. • 



TUNNEL TO THE LAKE 



From Crater Lake Lodge to the lake is a drop of nearly 1000 feet, 

 and to reach the lake a trail of 2300 feet is provided. Owing to the rug- 

 ged nature of the rim, this trail is necessarily steep and hard to climb, 

 and many visitors are unable to go over it, so that they are denied the 

 privilege of fishing or boating on the lake. This condition of affairs is 

 a disappointment to many visitors and some sort of provision should be 

 made to overcome it. A lift or other installation within the rim is 

 wholly impracticable, for the reason that every spring enormous slides 



