PART II: INTRODUCTION
1. General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Preliminay Inventories, Number 166, Records of the National Park Service, comp. by Edward E. Hill, 1966, p. 1.
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1. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Centennial Edition: National Park Service Officials, March 1, 1972, p. 51. Arant received official notification of his appointment on October 13, 1902. A biographical sketch of Arant may be found in Appendix A5.
2. Copies of these regulations may be seen in Appendix B.
3. Copies of these regulations may be seen in Appendixes C and D, respectively.
4. Report on Wind Cave, Crater Lake, Sullys Hill, and Platt National Parks, Casa Grande Ruin and Minnesota National Forest Reserve, 1908 (Washington, 1909), p. 6, and Report on Wind Cave, Crater Lake, Sullys Hill, and Platt National Parks, and Casa Grande Ruin, 1909 (Washington, 1909), p. 6.
5. Ibid.
6. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1918, p. 218.
7. Proceedings of the National Park Conference Held at the Yellowstone National Park, September 11 and 12, 1911 (Washington, 1912), p. 201.
8. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1918, p. 218.
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1. Annual Report of the Department of the Interior, 1902, I 142-43.
2. Annual Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, to the Secretary of the Interior, 1903, pp. 3-8, in Annual Reports of the Crater Lake National Park – Laws and Regulations, Vol. I, 1902-1911, Natural Resources Library, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
3. Annual Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, to the Secretary of the Interior, 1904, pp. 3-11, in Annual Reports of the Crater Lake National Park, I, 1902-1911.
4. A transportation “first” occurred during the summer of 1905 when William Hudson, a Medford garage owner, reached the rim in his Buick passenger car. Despite the description of the road as being of easy grade and comfortable scanty details of Hudson’s ordeal to reach the lake indicate that travel in the area was extremely difficult. Place and Place, Story of Crater Lake, p. 76.
5. Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year Ended June 30, 1905 (Washington, 1905), pp. 5-12, in Annual Reports of the Crater Lake National Park, I, 1902-1911, and Arant to Secretary of the Interior, April 21, 1913, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 208-06, Part 1, Crater Lake, Rules & Regulations, Fishing & Hunting.
6. Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, to the Secretary of the Interior, 1906, pp. 5-13, in Annual Reports of the Crater Lake National Park, I, 1902-1911. Also see Portland Oregonian, November 7, 1906, Vertical Files, Oregon Historical Society, Portland.
7. “Crater Lake National Park,” Steel Points, I (April, 1907), 136-37.
8. Steel to the Commercial Bodies of Southern Oregon, March 26, 1907, RG 79, Letters Received by the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to National Parks, 1872-1907, Crater Lake, 167-1907.
9. Report on Wind Cave, Crater Lake, Sullys Hill, Platt, and Mesa Verde National Parks and Casa Grande Ruin, 1907 (Washington, 1908), pp. 4-5, in Annual Reports of the Crater Lake National Park, I, 1902-11. Also see Salem Journal, March 23, 1907, andDaily Abstract, March 19, 1907, Steel Scrapbooks, Crater Lake, No. 35, Vol. 3, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park. Also see RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 12-3-8, Part 1, Parks, Reservations & Antiquities, Crater Lake National Park, Privileges, Crater Lake Company; Portland Oregonian, July 27, 1907; and Salem Journal, July 29, 1907.
