25 Steel, in Crater Lake portion of the Report of the Superintendent of National Parks, part of the larger Annual Report, Department of the Interior, 1916 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1917), 806; also quoted in Unrau, Administrative History, 205. It also appeared in “Road Circling Crater Lake will be finished this year,” Portland Oregonian, March 4, 1917.
26 Memorandum for W.C. Hawley (Oregon congressman), U.S. House of Representatives, undated [1916] and Analysis of Estimate, RG 79, Entry P9, File 1237, Part 2 Appropriations, NARA II.
27 Steel, Cost Statement to accompany Annual Estimates of the Crater Lake National Park, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918; and Exhibits accompanying Annual Estimates of the Crater Lake National Park, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 005, File 1237, Part 2, Appropriations, NARA II.
28 Budget figures for Crater Lake and other early parks are in the Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1917), 215-216.
29 William Alley, “The Photographic Legacy of Alex Sparrow,” Southern Oregon Heritage Today 4:5 (May 2002), 8-12.
30 Sparrow’s photographs of these and other trails, along with short captions, are in an album (CRLA 1649) housed in the Crater Lake National Park Museum and Archives Collections.
31 Daniels to the Secretary of the Interior, August 31, 1914, 1, op. cit. Daniels observed that while other trails in the park were little used, a “good” trail to the lake “would be used by nearly every person visiting the lake.”
32 Sparrow in Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior (hereafter DAR), 1917 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1917), 54; and Sparrow in DAR 1918, 61. Cost figures came from Sparrow, Summary of Cost Report, July 24, 1918, 1, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 013, File 123, Reports-Monthly-Superintendent, May 5, 1915 – July 15, 1919, NARAII.
33 As part of trail maintenance in 1917, Sparrow included the Copeland Creek Trail and the Dewie Trail (a road segment on what is now the Godfrey Glen Trail, put in place while Steel was superintendent) in the total; Summary of Cost Report, op. cit.
34 Alignment of the 1918 trail had very little overlap with the later fire road to Union Peak. The latter takes a more southern route from Highway 62 and is still used as part of the Pacific Crest Trail through the park. Sparrow described the trail construction in his monthly report for January 1919; Sparrow, monthly report, January 5, 1919, 2, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 013, File 123, Reports – Monthly – Superintendent, May 5, 1915 – July 15, 1919, NARA II.
