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During December, January, February and March, 538 elk were cap- 

 tured in the Park near the northern entrance and shipped for stocking 

 pubHc parks and ranges as follows: eighty to Kings County, Wash.; 

 fifty to Yakima County, Wash. ; forty to Garfield County, Wash. ; fifty 

 to Shasta County, Cal. ; fifty to Pennsylvania for Clinton and Clear- 

 field Counties; fifty to West Virginia; eighty to Arizona; twenty-five 

 to Hot Springs, Va. ; three to City Park, Aberdeen, S. Dak.; four to 

 the City Park at Boston, Mass. ; six to City Park at Spokane, Wash. One 

 hundred were captured and shipped under direction of the Department 

 of Agriculture, of which twenty-five went to Sundance, Wyo. ; twenty- 

 five to Estes Park, Colo.; twenty-five to Walla Walla, Wash.; and 

 twenty-five to points in Utah. The cost of capture and loading on 

 board the cars at Gardiner was $5 per head, which was paid by the 

 States and parks receiving the elk. The loss in capturing and up to the 

 time of delivery at their destination was but twenty-two animals out 

 of 538 shipped. With plenty of grass, and the snow remaining soft so 

 they could paw through it to get food, the elk, deer, antelope and 

 mountain sheep wintered well and with but little loss. 



Both black and grizzly bears are plentiful. Thirty-two grizzlies 

 were noted at one time on the garbage dumps at the canon on 

 August 20th. During the summer it has been necessary to have five 

 killed that had become dangerous to hfe and a menace to property. 

 Attempts were made to save the robes for the National or other 

 museums, but in only one instance was this attempt successful, owing 

 to lack of immediate facilities for saving the skins in hot weather. 

 The one saved was sent to the National Museum at Washington, D. C. 



Bears have been captured and shipped alive for public parks as 

 follows: October 25, 1912, a female grizzly to the Zoological Society 

 of St. Louis, Mo.; July 31, 1913, a female grizzly with two cubs to 

 the City Park at Atlanta, Ga. ; September 14, 1913, a female grizzly 

 to the park commissioners at Spokane, Wash. 



These shipments were all made under department authority, at no 

 expense to the Government, Lloyd M. Brett, 



Lieutenant Colonel, First Cavalry, 

 Acting Superintendent. 



Extracts from Report of the Superintendent of the Mount 

 Rainier National Park. (1913.) 



The number of visitors reached the total of 13,501, as compared to a 

 total of 8,946 for the season of 1912, a gain of 52 per cent. 



The number of private automobile permits issued during the season 

 of 1913 was 1,192, as compared to 674 issued in 1912, a gain of more 

 than 76 per cent. 



As a Hfe-saving measure, a shelter should be erected at Camp 

 Muir, (elevation, 10,000 feet). This point is on the principal route 

 to the summit of Mount Rainier; $1,500 will provide a suitable 

 building, Ethan Allen^ Superintendent. 



