CARE OF INSANE IN ALASKA.

The CHAIRMAN. The next item is for the care and custody of the insane of Alaska; the appropriation is $60,000, and your estimate is $60,000.

Mr. ACKER. Yes, sir; the prior appropriation was $50,000, and you will remember that we came up last year and secured a deficiency. The CHAIRMAN. How are you running this year?

Mr. ACKER. We find from our experience that that estimate can probably be reduced to $57,000. We think we can get along on that

amount.

The CHAIRMAN. What is your contract price now?

Mr. ACKER. Just the same as it was, $27.50 per capita per month. The CHAIRMAN. Where do you take care of these people?

Mr. ACKER. In an asylumn in Portland, Oreg.

The CHAIRMAN. How many persons have you had?

Mr. ACKER. Up to December 31 we have had 165 patients. This tabular statement gives it to you by years since 1910.

The CHAIRMAN. Last year you had 163?

Mr. ACKER. Yes; the number fluctuates.

The CHAIRMAN. What has your maximum number been, 165? Mr. ACKER. One hundred and sixty-five; yes.

The CHAIRMAN. Do you use this appropriation for anything besides maintenance?

Mr. ACKER. We pay the burial expenses and we also pay the transportation of the patients after they have recovered back to Alaska, if they want to go back there. This statement shows the number that have been sent back.

The CHAIRMAN. How long does your contract with the institution at Portland continue?

Mr. ACKER. I think it has two years more to run.

The CHAIRMAN. You did not have any unexpended balance in

1912?

Mr. ACKER. No, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. You figure you may have a few thousand dollars this year?

Mr. ACKER. Yes, sir; we expect to have a balance.

Care and custody of insane of Alaska, 1912.

July 1 (143 patients) to July 16, 1911 (145 patients), maintenance of patients

only

July 17 to Oct. 16, 1911 (155 patients)

Maintenance of patients...

Funerals of deceased patients, 5 at $25 each.
Transportation of discharged patients..
Cash advanced discharged patients...

Oct. 17, 1911, to Jan. 16, 1912 (160 patients) .
Maintenance of patients..

Funerals of deceased patients, 2 at $25 each.
Cash advanced discharged patient.

$12, 325. 50

(From this date, Mar. 31, 1912, vouchers cover the quarters of the fiscal year. The foregoing voucher covers 10 weeks only.)

Western Union Telegraph Co., for expense of telegraphing.

Apr. 1 to June 30, 1912 (150 patients).

Maintenance of patients...

Funerals of deceased patients, 8 at $25 each

3.30

12, 703. 33

$12, 503. 33
200.00

12, 703. 33

51, 145. 24 50,000.00

Deficiency (provided for in general deficiency act of Aug. 26)...... 1, 145. 24

Care and custody of insane of Alaska, 1913.

Maintenance of patients....

Funerals of deceased patients, 2 at $25 each, 1 at $15.....

Balance in appropriation, January, 1913.

The estimate of $60,000 for 1914 may, in light of foregoing, be reduced to $57,000.

60,000.00

EXPENSE OF TESTIMONY IN DISBARMENT PROCEEDINGS.

Mr. ACKER. There is one other item, Mr. Chairman, "Expenses of testimony in disbarment proceedings.'

The CHAIRMAN. Yes; your appropriation is $1,000.

Mr. ACKER. There has been no money expended from that appropriation.

The CHAIRMAN. You had no proceedings of that sort last year? Mr. ACKER. No, sir; none requiring the taking of testimony outside of the city. However, we never can tell what is going to arise during a year.

The CHAIRMAN. Do you remember when your last expenditure was under that item?

Mr. ACKER. The last expenditure was during the last part of Mr. Garfield's administration. That was probably over four years ago. This appropriation was asked for by reason of the proceedings in that particular case, which was known as the Spaulding case, and necessitated, I understand, the taking of testimony in either Tennessee or Kentucky. It was a case of purchase of bounty land

warrants.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK-ADMINISTRATION.

The CHAIRMAN. For administration and protection.

Mr. ACKER. We ask the same amount as we asked last year. The CHAIRMAN. And you ask us to make the same consolidation that you did last year, that is, for administration and protection, including feed for buffalo and salaries of buffalo keepers.' Do you

have in addition to your appropriation, the revenues?

Mr. ACKER. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And including the available balance they amount to $38,889.39?

Mr. ACKER. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Are the leased privileges annual, outside of the hotel privileges?

Mr. ACKER. A majority of them are annual. The store privileges, the maintenance of a store at Mammoth Hot Springs and also a general store at Upper Geyser Basin, run for a period of 10 years, and the same is true of the photographic privileges.

The CHAIRMAN. If we should spend a very large sum of money improving those roads, they would be very valuable privileges at the present rate, would they not?

Mr. ACKER. The transportation company handles about as many people and pick up about as many patrons of the stores now as they probably would then, unless there was a very great increase in travel.

The CHAIRMAN. What balance have you there now?

Mr. ACKER. On revenues?

The CHAIRMAN. Yes.

Mr. ACKER. We have an unallotted balance of $42,250.87.
The CHAIRMAN. On what date?

Mr. ACKER. That is up to January 18, 1913. We still have need for an administration building out there, and the superintendent put in an estimate to cover it this year of $35,000, but that was not included in the estimates.

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK.

The CHAIRMAN. The next is:

Glacier National Park, Mont.: For administration and improvement, construction and repair of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines, including the bridge across the Middle Fork of Flathead River, near Belton, Mont., and the construction of a road, together with the necessary bridges and culverts, from the old town of St. Mary, across St. Mary River, between upper and lower St. Mary Lakes; thence in a general northerly and westerly direction to that part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation west of lower St. Mary Lake to a point in or near section 35, township 36 north, range 15 west, on the boundary line between the Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; thence in a general southwesterly direction along Swift Current River to Lake McDermott within said park.

You had for administration, improvement, and construction and repair of roads, bridges, and telephone lines, $75,000, and your estimate for next year is $188,600. What is being done this year under the appropriation?

Mr. UCKER. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chapman, who has been the acting superintendent of the park during the past season, and who I think

is more familiar with the conditions on the ground than either of us, can explain that to you.

The

Mr. CHAPMAN. I can probobly tell you more about it by referring to this map. This is the area of the park [indicating]. The Great Northern Railroad runs along this portion [indicating] of it. town of Midvale, which is the eastern entrance of the park on the railroad, is at this point. The Great Northern have constructed a wagon and motor road up to this point on the park boundary for the purpose of getting up these canyons where they have shanties for which they pay a license fee. They constructed about 32 miles of that road at their own expense under permit. Then it is about 4.89 miles from there down to this point, which road was built under contract to continue into the park to make connection there.

From here there is now a wagon road which runs out here [indicating], which is an old one and in very bad condition. Up to this vicinity that road is under contract and is practically completed. This road between the river and the lake which would connect with the bridge which has been previously planned was completed; the macadam extended clear to the lake last year. A piece of road here of a little less than 2 miles is contracted for and is under course of construction, and about 10 miles of this trail here was actually graded at a standard width for the passing of tourists with packtrain accommodations. Practically all the other trails through the park amount to about 200 miles and were kept reasonably clear of timber. That is something that has to be done all the time, because the experience is that with a trail well opened a wind storm may come along that will disconnect or tear down all the telephone communication and bury the trails in timber again, and that work has to be done more or less constantly all the time.

The CHAIRMAN. What private holdings are there within the park? Mr. CHAPMAN. There are private holdings around this end of the lake and up in here and across up through the valley here [indicating] of about, my recollection is, 13,000 acres.

The CHAIRMAN. How much have they on the lake shore?

Mr. CHAPMAN. Approximately, I should say, 3 square miles right on the lake shore.

The CHAIRMAN. That is one of the finest parts of the park.

Mr. CHAPMAN. To my mind it is; yes. This side of the park over in here is more heavily timbered in the lowland and on the slopes of the ridges. This region over here is very abrupt and rocky, so it makes a very delightful contrast in coming across from one side to the other. That is where travel will eventually be.

Mr. UCKER. This is all very heavily timbered and is in private ownership. They have agreed to withhold the cutting of that timber until the 4th of next March, with the hope that something may be done to effect an exchange.

Mr. PAGE. Does the private ownership embrace the whole lake shore?

Mr. UCKER. Practically on that side, so far as this up here and this [indicating] is concerned.

The CHAIRMAN. What do they want to exchange?

Mr. UCKER. I do not know what they want to exchange, but there has been an arrangement effected with the Forestry Service or a bill introduced here in connection with the Yosemite, introduced by Mr.