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on during this season, and should be continued next season. It has for 

 its purpose the making of the groves more sightly and protecting the 

 same against forest fires. (Signed) Mark Daniels, 



Acting Superintendent Yosemite National Park 



SEQUOIA AND GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARKS 



The following improvement work was accomplished in the Sequoia 

 and General Grant National Parks during the spring of 1914 : 



Sequoia Park — Twenty-two miles of the Giant Forest Road were 

 graded; many additional passing points for vehicles were constructed 

 and new retaining walls put in; objectionable rocks and brush were 

 cleared from the right of way. Fifty-three miles of the South Fork 

 Trail and intersecting trails have been repaired and are in excellent con- 

 dition. Thirty-three miles of South Fork telephone line have been 

 repaired in good condition. A new road 6,700 feet in length has been 

 built between the Giant Forest-Moro Rock junction and ranger station 

 at Camp Sierra. Mr. Walter E. Kenney, who conducts the tourist 

 camp at Camp Sierra, erected a very neat and commodious hotel build- 

 ing on Government land at the camp. 



During the course of the season it became necessary to change the 

 location of a portion of the tourist camp at Camp Sierra in order to 

 avoid longer camping on private holdings. The result of this change 

 necessitated the clearing of thirty acres additional camp ground in order 

 to provide sufficient space for the park visitors. The work of clearing 

 this ground is now progressing very favorably and will be completed 

 by the close of the season. 



The work of constructing a 3,000-foot road as driveway around outer 

 border and through the tourist camp at Camp Sierra is nigh completed. 

 This road, when completed, will be the means of furnishing a beautiful 

 drive circuit around and through the camp, and will enable park visitors 

 to drive direct to the various camp sites desired. 



For two years last past the water supply that furnishes the Camp 

 Sierra tourist camp has gradually diminished, and much of the supply 

 is below the camp. A pipe system is now being laid that will bring 

 water from Sherman Creek to the camp; thus a bountiful supply of 

 good pure mountain water is assured. 



The location survey and cross-sectioning thereof of the Giant Forest 

 Road extension between terminus at Wolverton Reservoir and north 

 boundary of the park, some seven miles in length, will be completed by 

 the close of the season. 



General Grant Park—Tht roads, trails and fences have all been re- 

 paired. A new road one-fourth mile in length has been built which 

 forms a connecting hnk between the Stephens Grade Road in the park 

 and the new Sand Creek Road recently built to the south park boundary. 

 The building of these roads will be the means of bringing practically 

 all traffic thereover to the park in the future, as it somewhat shortens 



