Dates. Meteorological record kept at Mammoth Hot Springs, etc.-Continued. Summary for May, 1888. Thunder-storms, dates of: 1st, 20th, 22d, 23d, and 31st. Average cloudiness (scale of ten)... Number of days on which cloudiness averaged 8 or more (scale of ten) Number of days of rain Number of days of hail 42205 10 4.33 ...do.... 44.31 .inches.. 24.004 .do.... 23. 444 Meteorological record kept at Mammoth Hot Springs, etc.—Continued JUNE, 1888. Mean. Thunder and thunder-storms, dates of: 1st, 6th, 7th, 24th, 25th, and 27th. Average cloudiness (scale of ten). Number of days on which cloudiness averaged 8 or more (scale of ten) Number of days of rain. 5.91 6 17 3 . degrees.. 83 .do.... 37 .do.... 54.64 .inches.. 23.950 .do.... 23. 544 Meteorological record kept at Mammoth Hot Springs, etc.-Continued. Thunder-storms: dates of. 5, 8, 25, 26, 27, 28. On the 26th, 3.30 p. m., distinct peals of thunder at a distance; temperature 85°; 4.50 p.m. thunder-storm from westerly direction approaching; wind changed from SW. light breeze to W. gale; heavy rain; strong electrical detonations and numerous lightning; thermometer fell from 76° to 56 in twenty minutes; doable rainbow observed SE; 5.50 p. m., wind changed from W. gale to SE. fresh breeze with approach of thunder-storm; heavy rain nded at 6.30 p.m. Average cloudiness (scale of ten). Number of days on which cloudiness averaged 8 or more (scale of ten). Number of days of rain Number of days of hail Temperature during the month: 3.98 2 11 1 Highest.. Lowest Mean. ......... .degrees.. 95 .inches.. 24. 172 .do.... 23. 802 APPENDIX E. Schedule of rates for camping outfits submitted by Mr. Elwood Hofer: Tents and camp equipage are furnished without additional charge. $5.00 4.00 4.50 2.00 1.00 APPENDIX F Rules and regulations of the Yellowstone National Park. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 1. It is forbidden to remove or injure the sediments or incrustations around the geysers, hot springs, or steam vents; or to deface the same by written inscription or otherwise; or to throw any substance into the springs or geyser vents; or to injure or disturb in any manner any of the mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within the Park. 2. It is forbidden to ride or drive upon any of the geyser or hot-spring formations or to turn loose stock to graze in their vicinity. 3. It is forbidden to cut or injure any growing timber. Camping parties will be allowed to use dead or fallen timber for fuel. 4. Fires shall be lighted only when necessary and completely extinguished when not longer required. The utmost care should be exercised at all times to avoid setting fire to the timber and grass. 5, Hunting, capturing, injuring, or killing any bird or animal within the Park is prohibited. The outfits of persons found hunting or in possession of game killed in the Park will be subject to seizure and confiscation. 6. Fishing with nets, seines, traps, or by the use of drugs or explosives, or in any other way than with hook and line is prohibited. Fishing for purposes of merchandise or profit is forbidden by law. 7. No person will be permitted to reside permanently or to engage in any business in the Park without permission, in writing, from the Department of the Interior. The Superintendent may grant authority to competent persons to act as guides and revoke the same in his discretion. 8. No drinking saloon or bar-room will be permitted within the limits of the Park. 9. Private notices or advertisements shall not be posted or displayed within the Park, except such as may be necessary for the convenience and guidance of the public upon buildings on leased ground. 10. Persons who render themselves obnoxious by disorderly conduct or bad behavior, or who violate any of the foregoing rules, will be summarily removed from the Park under authority of the statute setting apart the Park "as a pleasuring ground for the people," and providing that it "shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to make and publish such rules and regulations as he shall deem necessary or proper," and who "generally shall be authorized to take all such measures as shall be necessary or proper to fully carry out the object and purposes of this act." WM. F. VILAS, Secretary of the Interior. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNMENT DIRECTORS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. SIR: In compliance with their statutory duty, the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company have the honor to submit this their report for the year 1888. They do not deem it necessary to submit such a detailed statement of the facts and such an array of figures as were formerly necessary to place the Government in possession of the information which it might require for intelligent action in reference to the road. The reports made at stated periods by the Commissioner of Railroads now furnish all the data which it concerns the Government to receive. The duty of the directors is discharged, they believe, if they confine themselves to the statement and summary discussion of the general topics which it may be important for the Government to consider in defining its policy and in establishing its relations with the railway company upon a safe and proper foundation. They have assumed, moreover, as a premise now beyond the scope of discussion, the necessity of an adjustment between the Government and the railroad company for the payment of the funds heretofore advanced as a subsidy for building the road. Those moneys will be due, by the terms of the agreement between the parties, in a few years, and it is manifest that the road is not now and will not then be in a condition to satisfy its obligation. It is equally manifest that should such adjustment not be effected, the Government will be compelled to take possession of the road and to operate it—a result so full of dangers, embarrassments, and difficulties that it should not be allowed to enter into the discussion except as a last and unavoidable solution of a problem not otherwise to be solved. The Government directors are still of opinion that it would be better for the United States to lose every dollar of its debt and execute a release to the company than to undertake the duties of a common carrier of goods and of passengers, thereby establishing a precedent which would surely create mischief far beyond the benefits to be reaped from so hazardous an experiment. It must be clear, too, that every year that is allowed to pass without the liquidation and settlement of the debt, increases to a serious extent the difficulties of the situation. The debtor company is necessarily under a disadvantage as compared with its unfettered rivals. It owes a large debt to the supreme power of the land. It can not deal at arm's INT 88-VOL III- -42 |