Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1914
The subject of oiling the roads for dust prevention has been under consideration for some time and the preliminary tests were made. Due to the lateness of the appropriation, followed by cold weather and an exceedingly heavy snow and rain storm, beginning Septem ber 12, but 2 miles of road were oiled between Gardiner and Mam moth. This oiling was rather unsatisfactory for several reasons. The nights were getting very cold and men competent to run the oiling apparatus could not be found. Moreover, just as the dis tributor was getting into good running order a careless teamster ran it into a bridge, breaking several parts, and causing a delay of two weeks until new parts could be obtained and the slight amount of oiling done could be completed. Enough work was done to indi cate that the cost of oiling roads for dust prevention, unless such roads be good gravel or broken-stone macadam, will prove very ex pensive, and, indeed, then to be satisfactory may require a lighter oil than has been found best in other localities, due to the cold nights and high rate of evaporation, resulting from the high altitude which makes a very material decrease in the atmospheric pressure as found at sea level.
The concrete oil tank, with a capacity of two large cars of oil, was built at Gardiner. Plans are being made to build this fall or next spring a similar tank at Yellowstone. At this latter place 2 to 4 miles will be graded and surfaced as a gravel and broken-stone macadam, which will be oiled as soon as the weather is hot enough in the season of 1915.
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