Mr. SCRUGHAM. What is the explanation of this increase of $4.600? Mr. DEMARAY. $1,320 of that is for the employment of a timekeeper and an assistant purchasing and voucher clerk for a period of 6 months each; $2,030 is for maintenance, repair, and operation. We are asking an additional sum of $910 for the maintenance of 13 miles of the Generals' Highway between the western boundary of Sequoia National Park and the southern boundary of General Grant National Park, which has been designated as an approach road and will be turned over by the Bureau of Public Roads during 1937; $400 is for the maintenance of extensions to the electric and water systems. In other words, most of this $4,600 increase is due to increased facilities which need maintenance, or it is due to increase in travel. Of course, the extension of the facilities is due to the same cause. The other item is $1,250 for equipment. The travel there in Sequoia Park in 1935 was 205,783, and in 1936 was 230,714. SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, VA. Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item is for the Shenandoah National Park, Va. Mr. DEMARAY. I submit the following justification: Amount included in Budget, fiscal year 1938. Appropriation, fiscal year 1937--. Net increase 1938 over 1937--. $58,000 39, 800 18, 200 The net increase of $18,200 is recommended to provide as follows: Administration and protection; increase, $11,420.-With this area assuming full park status, development and increased use of its facilities result in increased administrative work. An increase of $1,640 is recommended to establish a permanent position of junior clerk at $1,440 per annum, and for additional office supplies, and heat, light, and power. An increased amount of $9,780 is essential for the employment of four additional permanent rangers, for additional temporary ranger service, and for ranger supplies, such as gasoline, oil, first-aid supplies, etc. The additional ranger service is necessary to provide adequately for the care and protection of visitors and park property, including the patrolling of new sections of the Skyline Drive, and for duty at entrance stations for the collection of fees. Maintenance, repair, and operation; increase, $3,720.-The additional sum of $400 is recommended for maintenance of buildings at the Rapidan Camp. An increase of $2,000 is required for the maintenance and repair of additional roads, including new sections of the Skyline Drive. An additional sum of $470 is necessary for maintenance of new electric, telephone, and water systems constructed with Public Works funds. The sum of $800 is recommended for the employment of a permanent mechanic in connection with the repair of trucks, machinery, and equipment. A saving in temporary services, together with the increase recommended, will be sufficient for the salary of this employee. An increase of $50 is necessary for repairs to two additional passenger vehicles proposed for purchase in 1938. Equipment; increase, $3.060.-This increase, plus $5,540 in the account, will provide $8,60 for the purchase of equipment. The sum of $1,100 is proposed for the purchase of a passenger car and motorcycle necessary because of expanded activities in the par. The purchase of a 21⁄2-ton dump truck, a tractor, a motor grader, and small tools and equipment will require the sum of $7,500. Mr. SCRUGHAM. What is this increase of $18,200 for? Mr. DEMARAY. This is the type of park where we do have in-andout in 1 day and week-end travel, because it is so close to Washington. In 1935 there was no record of the travel, but in 1936 there were 694.095 people counted in this park. The principal increase is for administration and protection. Last year we were just getting the park organized. This year we are asking for the necessary personnel to take care of it. We are asking for four additional permanent rangers. They are going to be necessary in order to collect these additional fees. There has been no fee to date; and, with the fee, when it is approved, it will be necessary to have the personnel for its collection. Maintenance and operation is an increase of $3,720. Then there is an increase of $3,060 for the support of equipment. We have not had a great deal of equipment there up to the present time. Mr. RICH. What do you mean? It has not been approved yet? Mr. DEMARAY. The fee for the Shenandoah Park has not been approved. That is what we were reading this morning, about the recommendations that had been made. Mr. RICH. Who has to approve that? Is that the Secretary of the Interior? Mr. DEM ARAY. The Secretary of the Interior. Mr. SCRUGHAM. Does any higher authority, such as the President, pass on such matters! Mr. DEMARAY. No, sir. But this morning it was said that the suggestion for increased fees came from the Budget, so presumably it was suggested by higher authority. WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, 8. DAK. Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item is for Wind Cave National Park, S. Dak. Mr. DEMARAY. The justification for that item is as follows: The net increase of $2,620 is recommended to provide as follows: An increase of $1,500 is Administration and protection; increase, $1,749 recommended to provide for the employment of a permanent ranger to protect and care for the buffalo, elk, deer, and antelope herds, transferred from the United States Biological Survey on July 1, 1935. An increase of $150 is recom· mended for travel expenses pecessary for supervision, protection, and emer geney activitas in nearby areas. Maintenance, repair, and operation; increase, $880).- The sum of $300 will be required for the purchase of salt and hay for the buffalo, elk, deer, and antelope herds mentioned under administration and protection. An additional sum of $150 is incinded to provide for the operation of 2 new employees' residences constructed with Public Works funds An increase of $150 will be required for 6 months maintenance of 7 mies of oil mat gravel road to be turned over from the Bureau of Publie Roads on December 31, 1907 An additional sum of 880 is required for repairs to the cave elevator, and $70 is recommended for repairs to the 4,100 feet of tile pipe sewer line No funds have been allotted for the latter work in the past An increase of $150 is recommended to provide for the maintenance of the water system and for repairs to trucks ard passenger vehicles, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYO, Mr. SCRUGHAM. We will now take up Yellowstone National Park. Amount included in Budget fiscal year 1938. Net Increase, 190% over 1937 8411 19 730 The net increase of $19,750, plus $8.800 representing a decrease in the equipment account from $22,800 to $14,000, provides $28,550 additional for other accounts, as follows: Administration and protection; increase, $5,671.-This increase is recommended to provide for the services of additional temporary employees, and incidental expenses, due to the large increase in the number of visitors, and expanded activities resulting from emergency programs in the area. Of this amount, the sum of $825 is required for additional temporary clerical services; $1500 for a portion of the salaries of a janitor and warehouseman; $406 for a temporary ranger-naturalist for 3 months; $2,060 for five temporary rangers; and $880 for heating an auxiliary administration building, travel expenses, subsistence, printing, and rents. Maintenance, repair, and operation; increase, $22,879.-The construction of apartment quarters at Mammoth at a cost of $137,000 and four ranger stations and additions, with Public Works funds, and the construction of museums with funds donated by the Rockefeller Foundation, have entailed considerable additional maintenance and repair work. An increase of $4,000 is recommended to provide the care of these new structures and for the proper reconditioning of the old buildings. Approximately 24 of the larger buildings have not been painted for 8 years, and, unless sufficient funds are provided for the work, they will deteriorate to such as extent that their stability will be threatened. The great increase in the number of motor vehicles entering the park and the present demand for high-standard highways necessitates the recommendation for an additional $4,210 to provide more extensive road maintenance. An increase of $419 is included for the maintenance of 241 miles of additional trails, scheduled for completion with emergency funds. By the 1938 fiscal year it will have been practically 5 years since any real construction maintenance has been accomplished on the telephone system, one of the most essential items in the administration of the park. An increase of $250 is urgently recommended for this purpose and to provide employment of Two permanent telephone operators in lieu of the present temporary services «"lable to operate the switchboard at Mammoth. The maintenance and pair of the new power plant constructed with Public Works funds at a cost of Learly $200,000 will require an increase of $750. An increased sum of $4,000 is included for the maintenance of the sewer and wwer systems. The mileage of the sewer system has been more than doubled by construction work under emergency programs, and 13 new water systems ave been installed during the past 6 years without the allotment of additional fnds for maintenance and repairs. The sum of $1,500 is needed for additional sitation work to provide adequately for the greatly increased number of stors and for the maintenance of considerable extensions to the campground areas, accomplished with emergency funds. Due to curtailed allotments in the the game situation in Yellowstone has become acute, and an increase of $2000 is essential to maintain five hay ranches to supplement the heavily overFrazed winter ranges and to seed and protect the winter ranges. An increase of $3,500 is recommended for the operation of the new apartRent house constructed for employees with Public Works funds at a cost of $137.000. Mr. SCRUGHAM. You have an increase here of $19,750. het increase of more than $19,000, is it not? That is a Mr. SCRUGHAM. Is that a recurring item? It seems to me that I have heard of that before. Mr. DEMARAY. This item represents the largest park that we have. Te travel the year before last was 317.998. Last year it was 432,570. What that travel did to the park last year was this: It simply Stamped the sanitary and water facilities in most of the camp grounds. This program is for maintenance, repair, and operation. The gross increase is $22,870. There is a decrease in some other item accounting for the difference there. It is to maintain and operate our roads and our water and sanitary systems. Mr. SCRUGHAM. This park is practically self-sustaining, is it not? Mr. DEMARAY. For 1936 the revenue was $329,926.72. The record for the previous year was $217,854.49. Mr. SCRUGHAM. Do you know what the revenue so far this year is? Mr. DEMARAY. We can put that in the record. But on the basis of that it will probably come pretty close to the appropriation for 1937. It is practically self-sustaining. (Yellowstone National Park revenues for the period beginning July 1, 1936, and ending February 28, 1937, amounted to $361,343.11.) ROAD-BUILDING PROGRAM IN YELLOWSTONE PARK Mr. RICH. May I ask one question on that? Have you completed your road program in the Yellowstone Park yet? Mr. DEMARAY. No, sir. Mr. RICH. What is your policy on that? Mr. DEMARAY. The policy, of course, is to build all the main roads on proper modern standards of traffic. They were originally built for horse-drawn vehicles, and there are a number of sections that still remain to be constructed on modern standards. At the present time between Old Faithful and the Thumb of the Lake we have started two contracts up toward Kepler Cascades, but beyond that we have to have one-way traffic over the Continental Divide. The road is winding and it is narrow and dangerous, and most people even now hesitate to drive over that section of road. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item is for Yosemite National Park, California. Mr. DEMARAY. I wish to submit the following justification for the record: Amount included in the Budget, fiscal year 1938- Net increase, 1938 over 1937 $301, 600 284,000 17, 600 The net increase of $17,600, plus $4,300, representing a reduction in the equip ment account from $10,750 to $6,450, provides $21,900 additional for other accounts, as follows: Administration and protection; increase, $2,600.-The sum of $2,200 is recommended for the employment of an additional permanent ranger, for additional seasonal ranger services, and a small amount for supplies, such as gasoline, oil, stationery, etc. Increased mileage of roads kept open for winter sports and the increasing number of visitors require the additional ranger services. An increase of $400 is recommended to provide additional seasonal ranger-naturalist services to meet the demands of visitors for educational services. Maintenance, repair, and operation; increase, $19,300.-An increase of $2.000 is required to provide adequately for the maintenance and repair of park buildings, valued at $829,796, including 42 structures built from Public Works allotments for which no additional funds have been made available for maintenance and repair. Increased motor traffic, sanding of icy highways, added snow-removal operations necessitated by the increased interest in winter sports. and the completion of the new Wawona Road (26.4 miles), will require au increase of $9,800 for the maintenance of roads. This increase, plus $36,000 in the account, will provide the sum of $45,800 for the maintenance and repair of 276.3 miles of roads in 1938, an increase of only $559 over the amount of $45,241 appropriated in 1928 for the care of 169 miles of roads. The additional sum of $2,000 is included for the maintenance of improvements and additions to the electric system accomplished with Public Works funds at a cost of $102,000, and an increase of $1,000 is required for maintenance and repairs for the telephone system. Much needed repair work on the system was postponed during the past few years, and the 12-year-old switchboard must be given a general overhauling. The rapid advancement in the construction of sewage systems due to the Wawona acquisition, the necessity of added sewage disposal to provide for the increased number of visitors, the added responsibility for sanitation of the Tuolumne watershed, and the increased popularity of winter sports necessitate the recommendation for an increase of $1,000 for the repair and maintenance of the sewage system. An increase of $1,000 is recommended for additional maintenance and repair work to the water system required by expanded activities and the increase in the number of visitors. The sum of $500 is recommended to provide for maintenance and repairs to trucks due to the heavy burden placed on them as a result of the extensive emergency programs in progress and snow-removal operations. An increase of $2.000 is needed to provide proper sanitation for new developments and extensions, and for the additional work resulting from the increased number of visitors. Mr. SCRUGHAM. I see that you have an increase of $17,600. I presume that that is for the same reason as you explained for the others? Mr. DEMARAY. There is an increase in the maintenance, repair, and operation item of $19,300. Mr. SCRUGHAM. What was your travel in 1935 and 1936? Mr. DEMARAY. The travel in 1935 was 372,317. It jumped to 431.192 in 1936. The revenue from this park was practically equal to the appropriation in 1936, when it was $249,585. Mr. SCRUGHAM. No; the appropriation last year was $287,000. Mr. DEMARAY. I have been confused here. The revenue for 1936 was $249,585, while the appropriation was $287,000. ZION NATIONAL PARK, UTAH Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item is the "Zion National Park, Utah." Amount included in the Budget, fiscal year 1938. Net increase, 1938 over 1937_____. $40, 450 39, 800 650 The net increase of $650 is recommended to provide as follows: Administration and protection; increase, $100.-This increase is recommended for additional ranger supplies and materials, such as gasoline, oil, windshield stickers, etc., due to expanded activities resulting from the gradual lengthening of the travel season and the increased number of visitors. Maintenance, repair, and operation; increase $150.—This sum is required for the maintenance and repair of three employees' quarters and a checking station constructed with Public Works funds. Equipment; increase $400.--The sum of $1,100 in the equipment account provides an increase of $400 over the amount of $700 appropriated for 1937. It is proposed to purchase a passenger car at a net cost of $500 to replace a vehicle purchased in 1933, which will have traveled approximately 80,000 miles by the 1938 fiscal year. The sum of $600 will provide for the replacement of a pick-up truck purchased in 1929 and the purchase of new and replacement of old tools and equipment. Mr. SCRUGHAM. I see that you have an increase of $650. Will you explain that? Mr. DEMARAY. We are asking for $100 for administration and protection, and $150 for maintenance, repair, and operation. |