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Show fif ;t Isais y : FSmS B U.;, J;'-'1 J "YELLOWSTONE'S SEMI- v . i ,.i-VV'M-wi CENTENNIAL MARKS ITASTHE i! V " . -y'K'Z'h' FIRST Or NINETEEN GREAT SCENIC ' V-l-V- V f-v ' A :h playgrounds of the V i4-- 0 ?5 M " VV - V - v X c s x - r-1 ? v' , . , VfW,v v- i w . ; ; x " r i v , 4 If I A" "" toi,.6M Jeryce Qf iilJi!rC " lA, - i" iTlKl; '"-slnc has hoon celebratm- Its ' !f iVV '-JtAK $ f lS X'- -FfV MMiU-ciMitennliil this sununer. When n 4 lM "y" f - SJ f " - M r ArS 1' was establish,! by act of confess ' ? '& T - W A5A i6 - Ik1- i 1ST-' i( w:1s the first public play- .vO Jti ' J& Jk . "IL. Kvoum of the people created In all 1 ' -VV J3f A history. Now the United States has T t " X--T nint oon and several other nations t " -c , lilvl followed our example. II-" - . J "r Vol lows! one is a land of wonders tti: AZ&&TCilfr FaPJ? ' Af. 3AY fMo ir Courtesy i.S.Sbrett Jerrice By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN "TSJSM Ir'TY years of National Tarks ! Tel-fC Tel-fC I" i)) l""Slonc lias been celebratinp; Its Ai fitil-centeiinial this sununer. When y H was eslablisiied by act of congress l'JrAi In 1ST- " Wils the first public play-""Ji. play-""Ji. . Kiound of the people created in all history. Now the United States has nineteen and several other nations r have followed our example. j Yellowstone is a land of wonders I'R oarly history is in keeping." a-J Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, Jeffer-son, bought the Louisiana Purchase the unknown land between the Mississippi and the Kockies from Napoleon Bonaparte in ISO,". In the spring of 1S04 Jefferson started Lewis and C'lar.k westward from St. Louis to see what we had for $ir.000,000. Tliey went to the mouth of the Columbia and returned to St. Louis In 1S0G, nfter bein.u' given up for lost. Both going and returning re-turning they passed n little to the north of the Yellowstone, but heard nothing of it. John Colter, one of their men, turned back before be-fore reaching St. Louis to trap beaver on the headwaters of the Missouri. He discovered the Yellowstone in 1S07, returned to St. Louis in 1S10 mid told about the geysers and other marvels. St. Louis refused to believe and laughed at the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone as ''Colter's Hell." Gen. William Clark, Colter's commander, was apparently the only man to believe; on Clark's official map of the Lewis and Chirk expedition you will find traced "Colter's route in 1S07." Jim Bridger, one of Gen. William H. Ashley's lieutenants in the Rocky Mountain Fur company rediscovered the Yellowstone in 1S27. Bridger was as good n mountaineer, plainsman and guide as this country, ever saw. But he was a practical Joker along the line of monumental lies he was the Inventor of the obsidian cliff, boiling spring, alum creek and echo canyon stories which have been Western classics for nearly a century. So ids report of the Yellowstone wonders was set down merely as "another of Jim Bridger's big .varus." . In IS 12 and again in 1SG2 men reported the won-I'ers won-I'ers of the Yellowstone. Nobody would believe Iheni. In 1SG0 the semi-otlicial Washburn-Lang-ford expedition from Montana succeeded in get-ling get-ling a hearing. But it was not until 1S70 that a special federal government expedition established the existence of the Yellowstone. Thus it took s:xty-three years and more than six "discoveries" to put the Yellowstone officially on the map. C.r::el:i:s Hedges he has deserved well of his country September IS. 1S70. by a camp-fire in the Yellowstone, proposed that the wonderland be made a rational park a public playground set rsMe for the people's use forever. The idea took. Congress established the Yellowstone National park March 1. 1S72. Tho United States now has nineteen national parks containing lO.Sot) square miles or 0,940.700 acres. Chronologically in the order of formation they are as follows: ISo'J Hot Springs, Arkansas, 011 acres, originally origi-nally a reservation, made a national park this year; 40 curative hoi springs. 1S72 Yellowstone, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. 3.S4S square miles; geysers and other volcanic vol-canic exhibits. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, largo If Up. great animal preserve. Si0 Sequoia. California, 252 squ.tre miles; 32.000 big trees over ten feet in diameter, and some over thirty-five feet and 5,000 years old. jSOO Yoxemite, California, 1,125 square mile; Yoseniite valley, high waterfalls, three groves of big trees. 1S!)0 General Grant, California, four square miles ; big trees. 1S90 Mount Rainier, Washington, 324 square miles ; Mount Rainier with forty-eight square miles of glaciers. 1002 Crater Lake, Oregon, 240 square miles; lake in crater of extinct volcano, with sides 1,000 feet high. 190.1 Wind Cave, South Dakota, seventeen square miles; cavern witli many miles of galleries and chambers. 1904 Piatt, Oklahoma, S4S acres; medicinal springs. KKW Sullys Hill, North Dakota, 7S0 acres; wilil animal preserve. 9(Xj Mesa Verde. Colorado, 77 square miles, prehistoric cliff dwellings. 1910 Glacier, Montana. 1,534 square miles; mountains, lakes and glaciers. 1015 Rocky Mountain, Colorado, ,'!97 square miles, heart of the Rockies, Continental Divide, peaks up to 14,255 feet. 101C Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, US square miles, three famous volcanoes on two islands, tropical trop-ical scenery. 1010 Lassen Volcanic, California, 124 square miles; only active volcano in United States proper, other volcanic exhibits. iyi7 Mount McKiniey, Alaska, 2.200 square miles; highest mountain in North America (20.300 feet), great wild animal preserve; not yet accessible. acces-sible. HHP Grand Canyon, Arizona, OSS square miles, gorge of the Colorado river. 1919 Lafayette. Maine. 5,000 acres; group of mountains on Isle of Mount Desert. 191S1 Zion, Utah. 120 square miles; gorge of the Rio Virgin. Many volumes could be filled with photographs of first-class scenery in these national parks. The photographs reproduced herewith were selected for these reasons: Yellowstone is the oldest, largest larg-est and best known of our national parks. Rocky Mountain is the most popular. Grand Canyon is the greatest natural wonder in the world. Lafayette Lafay-ette is the only national park east of the Mississippi. Missis-sippi. Zion is the newest of our nineteen. The remaining picture, a scene on the way to Rocky Mountain, is typical of the American people at play in the national parks. Tiie visitors to the national parks in 1921 numbered num-bered 1,007,33a; the private automobiles numbered 175.S25. Rocky Mountain led with 273.737 visitors visi-tors and 57.43S automobiles. Hot Springs was second sec-ond with 1G0.9CS visitors. Yoseniite was third with with 91.513 visitors and 1S.947 cars. Yellowstone had SI .051 visitors and 15.73G cars. Appropriations in 1921 were SI. 031, 549 and revenues reve-nues were S390,92S. Eventually the national parks will be practically self-supporting. The act of 191(1 creating'the national parte service, serv-ice, a bureau of the Interior department, sets forth that the fundamental purpose of the national parks is "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." genera-tions." There will be more nat'onal parks. The policy of the national park service, as set forth In 191S by the late Franklin B. Lane, then secretary of the interior, is that the national parks of the future Should be justified by "scenery of supreme and distinctive dis-tinctive quality or some natural feature so extraordinary ex-traordinary or unique as to be of national Interest and importance. The national park system as now constituted, should not be lowered in standard, dignity and prestige by the inclusion of areas which express in less than the highest terms the particular class or kind of exhibit which they represent." rep-resent." The national park movement is now nationwide. nation-wide. There is an army of enthusiasts. These enthusiasts are preaching that the mission of the national parks is manifold; that general use of them by the people will bring physical, mental, moral and financial benefits. This national-park transcontinental tur!st traffic traf-fic by private car Is getting to be a big thing, with tremendous possibilities in dollars. The Scenic West was literally full of motorists tills summer on vacation trips ranging from two weeks to the whole season. All sorts of estimates have beea made of what this means financially to the country to have this money spent at home instead of Ir sightseeing abroad. It is purely guesswork to estimate esti-mate what the million and more visitors to tin national parks this summer paid out in money. An arbitrary minimum estimate of $100 each gives a total of $100,000,000. The national park enthusiasts have formed an organization of their own the National Parks association. as-sociation. It was formed by unofficial frifsnrts of the national parks to enter a field of the movement move-ment which the federal government apparently does not intend to occupy. Tile present policy of congress if it has any national park policy is merely to provide for the prelection, maintenance and development of the parks, leaving it to the people to determine the use they shall make of them. The association is an organization of the people themselves to enable them to use effectively these public playgrounds. At present the erjov-ment erjov-ment of the American people of its national pirlis is largely emotional. Among Its many other activities ac-tivities the association purposes a campaign of education to double the enjoyment of the peoylo by adding understanding. It says in effect to tlm American people: "Our national parks are nature's great lahora-tories lahora-tories and museums. They are no; ir.erely won- ders and scenery. They are exhibits on a "m''ht scale of the processes by which nature lias been and is making Amerb-a. You mav double youi pleasure in these exhibits by comprehending lliel-meaning lliel-meaning through intelligent study. Let us America first!' But let us also 'know An..vlcn : Let us know its natural history :iS well S tj national history. Let us differeiitiMte. distl,"u:s) and appreciate. Then we shall neally know. we shall really enjoy." |