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All of the reports of the various park supervisors will bear careful 

 reading, and we recommend these comprehensive reports by Mr. Mather 

 and Mr. Marshall as being the most convincing evidence of the great 

 progress in national park affairs during the past year. 



VISITORS TO PARKS, IQOQ TO I916 



r 1 

 riame of p&rlc. 





1910 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



lyio 



Hot Springs Reservation 





120 ,000 



130 ,000 



135 ,000 



2 135 ,000 



2 125 ,000 



2 115 



,000 



118 ,740 



Yellowstone National Park. . 



32 ,545 



19 ,575 



23 ,054 



22 ,970 



24 .929 



20 ,250 



51 



,895 



35 ,849 



Casa Grande Ruin 







M50 



2450 



2450 



2500 





500 



1,909 



Sequoia National Park 



^ 854 



2,407 



3,114 



2,923 



3,823 



4,667 



7 



,647 



10 ,780 



Yosemite National Park 



13 ,182 



13 ,619 



12 ,530 



10 ,884 



13 ,735 



15 ,145 



33 



,452 



33 ,390 



General Grant Nat'l Park.. . 



798 



1,178 



2,160 



2,240 



2,756 



3,735 



10 



,523 



15 ,360 



Mount Rainier Nat'l Park. . 



5,968 



8,000 



10 ,306 



8,946 



13 ,501 



15 ,038 



35 



,166 



23 ,989 



Crater Lake National Park.. 



4,171 



5,000 



2 4 ,500 



5,235 



6,253 



7,096 



11 



,371 



12 ,265 



Wind Cave National Park . . 



3,216 



3,387 



3,887 



3,199 



3,988 



3,592 



2 



,817 



9,000 



Piatt National Park 



25 ,000 



2 25 ,000 



30 ,000 



2 31 ,000 



2 35 ,000 



2 30 ,000 



2 20 



,000 



2 30 ,000 



Sullys Hill Park 



190 



190 



2 200 



2 200 



300 



500 



1 



,000 



2 1 ,500 



Mesa Verde National Park. . 



165 



250 



206 



230 



280 



502 





663 



1,385 









2 4 ,000 



6,257 



12 ,138 



14 ,168 



14 



,265 



12 ,839 



Rocky Mountain National 

















Park 















231 



,000 



2 51 ,000 





















Lassen Volcanic National 





































(1) 



















Total 



86,089 



198 ,606 



224 ,407 



229 ,534 



252 ,153 



240 ,193 



335 



,299 



358 ,006 



1 No record. 2 Estimated. 



AUTOMOBILE AND MOTORCYCLE LICENSES ISSUED, 

 SEASONS OF I914, I915, AND I916 





1914 



1915 



1916 



Auto- 

 mobiles. 



Motor- 

 cycles. 



Auto- 

 mobiles. 



Motor- 

 cycles. 



Auto- 

 mobiles. 



Motor- 

 cycles. 









958 

 330 

 3,895 

 1,584 

 3,238 

 2,015 

 86 

 457 





3,445 

 735 

 3,938 

 1,749 

 3,795 

 2,600 

 184 

 902 

 2 2,500 







158 

 673 

 392 

 1,594 

 1,107 

 34 

 267 

 (») 





11 



4 









12 

 188 

 18 

 4 

 4 



(») 



40 

 247 

 31 



39 

 97 

 26 

 2 

 11 



(0 





26 



Wind Cave 



Total 



4,225 



226 



12 ,563 



355 



19 ,848 



179 



1 No record kept or estimate made. 2 Estimated. 



crossing the Tuolumne River in Pate Valley, and continuing on out of Pate Valley 

 to the north to a connection with the present Pleasant Valley — Rodgers Lake trail. 

 This trail would enable parties to leave the Yosemite Valley and easily enter the 

 northern portion of the park, which is now walled off from easy access by the Grand 

 Canon of the Tuolumne. The work of the city of San Francisco in Hetch-Hetchy 

 Valley has removed the main opportunity for camping on the floor of the valley, and 

 has rendered the crossing of the canon at that point much less desirable. It is im- 

 portant that the route suggested through Pate Valley should be opened up at as 

 early a date as possible, to take the place of the former route through Hetch-Hetchy, 

 so that the northern portion of the park may become easily accessible from Yosemite 

 Valley. This would have the double advantage of allowing persons to return via 

 Tuolumne Meadows, thus making a round trip that can not be excelled, and will en- 

 able a trail to be started from Pate Valley up to the Tuolumne Canon to meet the 

 trail already commenced leading down from Tuolumne Meadows. — Editor. 



