CHAPTER III: ENDNOTES 121. Capt. George S. Anderson, Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1891), 6. 122. Capt. George S. Anderson, Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1892 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1892), 3 and 5. 123. Maj. W. A. Jones, Corps of Engineers, "7th Indorsement U.S. Engineer Office, Saint Paul, Minnesota, November 14, 1892." 125. Capt. George S. Anderson, Annual Report of the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1893 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893), 8. 127. Capt. George S. Anderson, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1894 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894), 8. 128. Capt. George S. Anderson, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1895 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895), 8. 130. Capt. George S. Anderson, Report of the Officer in Charge of Construction and Maintenance of Roads, Etc., in the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of War, 1896 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896), 5. 133. Col. S. B. M. Young, 3rd Cavalry, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1897 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897), 4. Bridges built in 1897: (1) Trout Creek, (2) Firehole River at Riverside Geyser, (3) over ravine near West Thumb, (4) Gibbon River in Virginia Meadows, (5) Green Creek, (6) footbridge over Firehole River near Biscuit Basin, and (7) over east branch of Gardner River above Undine Falls. 134. Col. S. B. M. Young to the Quartermaster General, 13 August 1897. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park. 136. Young, Report of Acting Superintendent, 1897, 24. There is little historical documentation relating to this commission. 138. Capt. James B. Erwin, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1898 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898). 139. Hiram Chittenden, "Roads in Yellowstone National Park," - Senate, 226, 50th Congress, 1st Session. Acting Secretary of War Transmitting in Response to Resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1900, Letter from Chief of Engineers, U.S.A., Together with the Copies of Originals of All Reports Relating to the Present Condition and Appropriate Plans for the Development of the System of Roads in the Yellowstone National Park. The monies would cover:
Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sergeant Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes FFF and JJJ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1901 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901). 140. Chittenden, Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sergeant Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes FFF, III, and JJJ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1901, 3778-3780. Additions to the plant were two and 1 single-seated surrey for inspections uses, 1 boom derrick with complete fittings, 1 hoisting engine, 2 dump carts, 2 hovelcarts, 1 pile-driving outfit, 6 wheel scrapers, and 63 tents. 141. Ibid., 3,784 and 3,787-3,788. 142. Chittenden to Brigadier General G.L. Gillespie, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 7 December 1901, 1-2. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park. 144. Chittenden, Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sgt. Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes FFF, III, and JJJ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1901, 73. 145. Chittenden, The Government Road System of the Yellowstone National Park, U.S. Department of Agriculture Public Road Inquiries Bulletin No. 21. Proceedings of the International Good Roads Congress held at Buffalo, New York, September 16-21, 1901 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901), 73. 148. Hiram Chittenden, Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sgt. Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes FFF and III of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1902 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), 3,037 and 3,038. Approximate location of the six wooden tanks:
150. Hiram Chittenden, Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sgt. Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes GGG and KKK of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1903 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 2888-2889. The Engineers Office is adjacent to the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and across the esplanade from the Albright Visitor Center. 151. "Technical Report Upon the Improvement of Yellowstone National Park, 1904, 50." This document does not list an author, however, it is presumed to have been written by Captain Hiram Chittenden U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 153. Hiram Chittenden, Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sgt. Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes FFF and KKK of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1904 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904), 4,171, for 1903 2,889. 156. "Technical Report . . . 1904," 58. 157. After considerable controversy the bridge was removed in 1962. 158. Chittenden, Annual Reports Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Roads from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming, and Erection of Monument to Sgt. Charles Floyd in the Charge of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes FFF, KKK, and JJJ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1903, 2893, for 1904, 4174. Other bridges built with material from American Bridge Company: Yellowstone River Bridge near Yancy's 159. Ibid., 1903, 2289, 1904, 4171. 160. Hiram Chittenden, Annual Report Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park in the Charge Of Hiram A. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers, Appendixes GGG and KKK of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1905 (Washington, D.C. :Government Printing Office, 1905), 2809 and 2810. 161. Ibid., 1905: The following bridges have been built:
1906: The following bridges had been built:
162. Chittenden, "Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1905," 2,816.
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