14. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1921, pp. 82, 225. Records relating to the construction of the studio may be found in RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 900-01, Part 1, Crater Lake, Public Utility Operators, Fred H. Kiser, Buildings.
15. The transactions that led to the removal of Parkhurst as park concessionaire angered Commissioner Steel. In May 1922 he initiated a letter-writing campaign to Oregon newspapers, charging Mather with fraudelent and scandalous practices in forcing Parkhurst out of the park without what he considered to be proper compensation. In September 1922 he wrote to President Warren G. Harding, demanding that Mather and Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall be removed from office. Finally in January 1924 Steel published a pamphlet, entitled “The Crater Lake Scandal,” in which his letters on behalf of Parkhurst were printed. William Gladstone Steel, “The Crater Lake Scandal” (Eugene, 1924), pp. 1-9, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39. The alleged mistreatment of Parkhurst was also discussed in Congressional debate in February 1924 during consideration by the House of Representatives of a Department of the Interior appropriations bill. Salem Journal, February 10, 1924, Vertical Files, Oregon Historical Society, Portland. For further data relating to Steel’s accusation against Mather see Steel to the President, September 26, 1922, Steel to Mather, November 26, 1926, and Mather to Steel, December 6, 1926, Steel Scrapbooks, Crater Lake, No. 40, Vol. 8, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
16. Correspondence, Assignment, and Contract, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 900-02, Part 1, Crater Lake National Park, Concessions, Crater Lake National Park Company; United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Crater Lake National Park Company, Crater Lake National Park, Contract No. I-1p-80, January 1, 1922, to December 31, 1941, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 900-02, Part 1, Crater Lake National Park, Concessions, Crater Lake National Park Company, 1922-41; and Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1922, pp. 51-52, 129. Further data on these transactions may be found in Albright to Mather, April 19, 1922, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 900-05, Part 2, Crater Lake, Public Utility Operators, Crater Lake National Park Company, Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1921-22.
17. Ira Lantz, Special Agent, D.I. to Director of Investigations, Department of the Interior, August 19, 1935, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 204, Part One, Crater Lake, Inspections and Investigations, Division of Investigation.
18. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1922, pp. 128-29.
19. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1923, pp. 65-67, 143.
20. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1924, pp. 49, 51, 118-20.
21. Josephine H. Forney, “The Lure of Crater Lake,” Union Pacific Magazine, IV (June, 1925), 31-32.
22. Klamath Falls Herald and News, April 5, 1948, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 900-02, Part 3, National Park Service, Crater Lake Park Company, Contract, 1948.
23. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1925, pp. 37, 104.
24. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Rules and Regulations Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, 1925, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 208, Part 1, Crater Lake, Rules and Regulations, General. Earlier in 1920-21 less elaborate road signs had been installed along the park entrance roads.
25. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1926, pp. 40, 114, 116;ibid., 1929, p. 29; ibid., 1932, p. 16; ibid., 1933, p. 183; Contract and related correspondence between the Crater Lake National Park Company and the Standard Oil Company, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 900-02, Part 1, Crater Lake National Park, Concessions, Crater Lake National Park Company; ‘Fort Klamath Community Club, First Annual Ski Race, Fort Klamath to Crater Lake Lodge and Return, General Rules and Information,” [1927], Division of Interpretation Files, Crater Lake National Park; and “Ski Activity Isn’t New,” Reflections, III (Fall-Winter, 1978-79), 1, 4. Although the lodge was not open during the winter the Crater Lake National Park Company employed John Maben as its first winter caretaker in 1926-27. His diary for that period may be found in the Oregon Historical Society, Portland.
