17 [George Goodwin, COE] Crater Lake National Park, Report on Improvement of Roads and Bridges, Report of Operations for the working season of 1918, 6, RG 77, Box 406, CLP Monthly Reports file, NA Seattle. The trail’s total cost was calculated to be $118.95.
18 Steel, Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1913,(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1914), 8.
19 Bryan, quoted in the Salem Capitol Journal, cited in Harlan Unrau, Administrative History, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (Denver: Government Printing Office, 1988), 212. See also “Bryan volunteers to spread the fame of Crater Lake: Distinguished visitor urges construction of a tunnel through wall of the Crater,” Portland Oregonian, August 8, 1915.
20 Daniels, Report of the Landscape Engineer of National Parks, in Annual Report, Department of the Interior, 1915 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1916), 854.
21 William G. Steel to the Secretary of the Interior, September 11, 1915, 2, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 008, File 123, Part 2, Expenditures, NARA II. Some of the funds were used to extend the trail from Eagle Cove along the lakeshore toward the Watchman, though another proposal made in 1914 also recommended a trail to Kerr Notch; Mark Daniels to the Secretary of the Interior, September 22, 1914, 3, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 005, File 1237, Part 1, Appropriations, NARA II.
22 With that expenditure in mind Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bo Sweeney refused Steel’s request of additional funds for bringing fresh water shrimp and snails as fish food. Expenditures for trail building and fish food that year are shown on monthly statements dated August 31 and October 31; RG 79, Entry P9, Box 006, File 123, Part 5, Appropriations, NARA II. Steel requested $150 for the shrimp and snails; Steel to the Secretary of the Interior, August 31, 1915. Sweeney cited the fact that the State of Oregon required visitors to buy fishing licenses in the park, while the federal government provided what amounted to a subsidy by stocking Crater Lake with fish; Sweeney to Steel, September 9, 1915, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 006, File 123, Part 5, Appropriations, NARA II.
23 William Steel to the Secretary of the Interior, October 1, 1915, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 013, File 123, Reports Monthly May 5, 1915 to July 15, 1919, NARA II.
24 Steel to R.B. Marshall [General Superintendent of National Parks], August 9, 1916, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 006, File 123, Part 5 Appropriations, NARA II. Steel’s reasoning was that the snow drifts were still heavy and thought it wise not to attempt trail construction that summer; Steel to the Secretary of the Interior, September 25, 1916. He estimated that $750 was needed to build a four foot trail up Garfield Peak, but did not have a location survey in hand. Similarly, $500 was needed to construct a four foot trail from Annie Spring to Arant Point. The trail from headquarters to Union Peak, to be four feet for four miles and the two feet once it climbed the rocky slopes of Union Peak for the last mile would cost $1,000 to build; Steel to the Secretary of the Interior, September 23, 1914, 3-4, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 005, File 1237, Part 1, Appropriations, NARA II.
