. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. added interest by the public in the park. The location isparticularly adapted to this purpose and the animals are doing well. The in-closure is about the western portion of the park and creates a pasture of nearly4,000 acres. PERMITS FOR TRANSPORTATION BY AUTOMOBILE. For the year January 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917, seven permits for trans-portation of passengers by automobile were issued. RECOMMENDATIONS. Employment of a park ranger for the entire year, for guide service and labor. Appropriate fence to be b
. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. added interest by the public in the park. The location isparticularly adapted to this purpose and the animals are doing well. The in-closure is about the western portion of the park and creates a pasture of nearly4,000 acres. PERMITS FOR TRANSPORTATION BY AUTOMOBILE. For the year January 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917, seven permits for trans-portation of passengers by automobile were issued. RECOMMENDATIONS. Employment of a park ranger for the entire year, for guide service and labor. Appropriate fence to be built for residence yard. Cement crossing in street, and pavement in front of registration building to beinstalled and a walk from front around to rear of residence constructed. New building, of rock, over cave entrance, to be constructed with cementfloor. Four new bridges to be built on park road, replacing old ones. One mile of road to be surfaced with gravel. Guardrail to be installed from public building across bridge toward pavilion. REPORT DIRECTOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 958. 954 REPORT DIRECTOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. PLATT NATIONAL A. Sneed, Supervisor, Sulphur, Okla. GENERAL STATEMENT. By the acts of Congress of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 641), and April 21, 1904(33 Stat., 220), and acres, respectively, at the town of Sulphur,Okla. (then Indian Territory), were segregated as the Sulphur Springs Reser-vation, which designation, by joint resolution approved June 29, 1906, waschanged to Piatt National Park. The park, with a total area of acres, extends in irregular form a dis-tance of approximately 3 miles from northeast to southwest along TravertineCreek, including a portion of Rock Creek, into which the Travertine empties,and it has a circuit of 9 miles. There are within the park a number of known mineral and three nonmineralsprings. The principal groups of these springs are the Bromide and MedicineSprings (to which has been added the Sodium-Chlo
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