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Valley, $25,000; garbage incineratory, $6,900; operating the 

 present road-sprinkling system, $7,500; the extension of the 

 road-sprinkling system to Fort Monroe and Happy Isles and 

 operation of the same, $7,500; repair of existing roads, trails, 

 bridges, culverts, buildings, plants, fences, camp sanitation, and 

 removal of undergrowth, $25,000; salaries, $10,460. 



Sequoia National Park: Widening twenty-one miles of Giant 

 Forest wagon road to eighteen feet, and constructing drain 

 culvert, $25,200; constructing forty miles of trail, $12,000; im- 

 proving 150 miles of trail, $15,000; construction of twenty miles 

 of telephone line, $8,000; fencing fifty miles of the park bound- 

 ary, $10,000; completion of water system for Tourist Camp at 

 Camp Sierra, including public drinking fountains, $2,500; con- 

 structing a stairway and hand-rail on Moro Rock, $2,500; con- 

 struction of pier, bathhouse, and boathouse at Twin Lakes, 

 $2,000; improvement and development of Paradise and Clough 

 Caves, $2,000 ; piping water from Log Creek to Military Camp, 

 $2,000; repainting Marble Fork bridge, $250; fencing rangers' 

 pasture and constructing and painting rangers' cabins, $2,400; 

 salaries of rangers, $5,700. , 



General Grant National Park: Construction of two miles of 

 wagon road, $5,000; construction of two miles of trail, $400; 

 completing water-supply system at Tourist Camp, $500; fencing 

 Tourist Camp ground, $800; rebuilding eight miles of park 

 boundary fence, $1,600; construction and improvement of park 

 buildings, $1,050; forestation and protection of growing forest, 

 $5,000; construction of three gateways at entrance to park, 

 $750; construction of public bathhouse, $750; salary of park 

 ranger, $1,400. 



For the development and care of the national parks, the 

 Secretary of the Interior has asked Congress to appropriate 

 the sum of $791,080.60, an increase of $617,830.61 over the 

 appropriations for the current fiscal year. The national parks 

 constitute ideal recreation grounds for thousands of people, 

 but their development and use are seriously retarded by the 

 lack of adequate roads and trails, and until sufficient money 

 is appropriated for beginning a comprehensive plan of develop- 

 ment, the parks will fall far short of rendering the important 

 pubhc use for which they are intended. The general public 

 interest in these pleasure grounds is shown by the fact that 

 in a Hst* recently issued by the Department of the Interior 390 

 magazine articles on the parks are enumerated. It is the in- 

 tention of the Department to make the principal places of 

 interest in the parks more accessible, to render traveling more 



*This list will be sent to applicants upon request. 



