Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — Was Employed in Yellowstone National Park. [ARTICLE]

Was Employed in Yellowstone National Park.

Parker Childers, who returned the -first of the week from Montana, has been working in one of the transportation barns in Yellowstone National Park for the past two months and expects to return there next season. The season 'for tourists lasts only about three months, and the first snow this year came about Sept. 1, and there has been snow snow all the time since,

Parker was located at Norris Geyser Basin, some 25 miles inside the park, which is 35x51 miles in extent and with the forest reserve surrounding it contains some 3,000,000 acres. The sight-seeing stage circuit is 160 miles. The season opens June 15. Parker was all over the park in 1909.