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Show PAGE SIX THi: BINGHAM BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON', UTAH Thursday, February 16, 1928 u ji ' s 'sL , v ' T s ji ,i y tf N-- 'I - MjS&P. fiwxmtiMZjit"1 1-- '7v fee A tn,,f ft y L wJnUro y, Mv j t tWfeftsr-- IrTlrnwv,-;-' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON fj5&SFi!W A BILL now before congress Is jFTjf pussed during the present session, l&l t,le PI,le ot America will have a I f lUb new national park which will per--j j I petuate the memory of the life of a Jij great American amid the scenes of Jr?3S one e' "ie n,OH' Important periods j5yiji In his career. Tho bill Is known ylfjfejffi olllclnlly as II. It. 2!)8, and It Is a measure Introduced by Representa-tive James II. Sinclair of North Dakota to estab-lish the Roosevelt National pHrk in the Bud Lauds of his state. Two years ago Congressman Sinclair Introduced a similar bill, but It, along with much other legislation, was lost lu the eleventh-hou- r jam, caused by a filibuster, which marked the closing scenes of the Slxly-nlnt- h congress. But North Dakota, which believes It has us mony natural wonders to show the people of this country as Iins its sister state, South Dakota, which became so much better known nationally through the visit of President Coolldge to the Black Hills last summer, now hopes that (lie present bill will pass and that It will have the privilege of giving to tlte nation a new national playground. Among the prime movers In the project to establish a national park In the Bad Lands are Former Governor J. M. Devine, now stute Immigration commissioner; YVulter F. dish-ing, publisher of the Bench (N. D.) Advance and former editor of the Furgo Courier-New- and other leading men of the state. Soon after Con-- , gressman Sinclair Introduced his first bill, the state legislature pussed the following concurrent resolution which has been presented to congress In support of the project: Concurrent resolution (Introduced by Mr. R. O. Signalness a rut Mr. Walter Tester) memorlall-In- g the congress of tha United States to estab-lish the lioosevelt Nutlonnl park In Billing! coup'y, N. D., and to provide for th substitu-tion of public lands of the United States foi the state school lands located within the pro-posed park area. lie It resolved by the house of representatives Of the state of Nortp Dakota (the senate con-curring): Whereas there Is now pending In the Congress of the United States a bill to establish the lioosevelt National park In BIIUiirs county, N. D., Intro-duced by Congressman Sinclair of North Dakota, December 7, 1925. b.'lns II. It. 31M2; and Whereas the tract of land In such proposed park consists of the pertrlncd forest and the famous "iiad Lands" lylnj? on both sides of the Little Mis-souri river In Hillings county, N. D., where Theodore Kuosevelt operated his historic cattU) ranches and hunted wild KUine In the early lilstoiy of Dakota territory, and which tract Is admirably fitted by nature for scenic purposes and preserves In Its natural state the mountainous character and the wild, unchanged condition which existed in thts West fifty years ago. and which tract It Is practi-cable nnd appropriate to preserve as a national park In the honor of Theodore Roosevelt, in the Interest of American scenic beauty, ntul us a relic of the traditional pioneer conditions of the West, which have all but disappeared from the North Ameri-can continent; and Whereas there !s included In said proposed park area approximately -, 000 acres of public lands be-longing to, the state of North Dakota known a ate school lands, which was granted to It by the I'nited States under sections 10 and 11 of the en-abling act of February 22. HSU, to be held In trust by the state of North Dakota (or the common schools, which land, on account of lis rough and brrren character, cannot be sold fur the minimum price of $10 per acre, n.j prescribed In section II of said enabling act, and from which the stite of North Dakota gets only a nominal Income; and. It further appearing that it would be expedient to exchange the said school lamia located within such proposed park area for public lands of the L'nlted States of like quantity, character, and value located In the vlci'nity of such proposed park Now, there-fore, be It Kesolved, That this Twentieth legislative assem-bly of the etate o North Dakota hereby Indorses said Roosevelt National park project and respect-fully urges the congress of the United States to es-tablish a national park as provided for In said H. It. 3942; and, be It further Resolved, That congress, In furtherance of ald park project, make appropriate provisions for ex-changing with the state of nrth Dakota public lands of the L'nlted States, of equal quantity, character, and value, for the state school lands ' lying within said proposed park area heretofore granted to the state of North Dakota under the provisions of sections 10 and 11 of the enabling act of February 22, 1S89; and, be It farther Resolved, That the secretary of state transmit copies of this memorial to the President of the United States, to the senate and house of repre-sentatives of the L'nlted States, and to the sena-tors and congressmen for the state of North Da-kota. JNO. W. CARR, Speaker of the House. C. It. VERRY, Chief Clerk of the House. WALTER HADDOCK, President of the Senate, i W. D. AUSTIN, Secretarr of tfce Senate. The Bad Lands, which have been pronounced by authorities as being the most Ideal, naturally formed wild game preserve In the country, nnd second only to the Yellowstone National park in scenic Interest and g beauty, lie in the western section' of the state along the Little Missouri river and puss through five counties Dunn, McKenzle. (lolden Valley, Billings nnd Slop. They extend 01 miles from north to south and lu,ve an average width of 14 miles. "The nnme Is from our standpoint," says one writer, "but natural to the Indlun who roamed over and naimd the region, for It was Indeed Make Sikti (baj land), as far as travel wits concerned. "Among those hills for untold ages uninue animal forms roamed nnd fought and died. The world's greatest fossil bed Is there and to this section paleontologists come from every part of the world seeking valuable fossils to be found only there. Over nil F.tirope one can read labels on the valuable fossils collected In the great mu-seums, 'From the Bad Lands of North Dakota, u. s. a; "Occasionally one reads about the saber-toothe-tiger with Its teeth that could pierce the thickest hide. Ten of these animals with some snber teeth In perfect condition have been found In the Bad Lands. The king of nil Bad Lands beasts was t lie brontotheritim, measuring 15 f;et In length, 8 feet in height. For WO.OOO years these" ani-mals rjiimed and ruled. A number of skulls with the horns were among Hie finds last year. "There nlso roamed over these Bad Lands herds of giant pigs, we now call t lie cnteloilon, the ancestral swine. This animal had the char-acteristics of a wild boar while resembling the hippopotamus and the horse. This sounds like a nightmare, and Mich It would have appeared 'to the human being hud there been tne at that time. Climatic conditions, were very different dur-ing the Miocene than they are now, for then the Bad Lands must linve h:id n tropical climate." The Bad Lands, however, are interesting to others besides the scientist, for the name "Crea-tion's Workshop," which Is often applied to them, is n good Indication of the scenic wonders found there. Thousands of yea-- s of erosion, of weather-ing by water, frost nnd wind have resulted In fantastic rock formations unlike those found In any other part of t lie I'nited States. There are toweling huttes ami pinnacles, wrinkled with age and erosion, rock formations with gargoyle fig-ures of weird beauty. The canyon of the Little Missouri offers one of the most remarkable ex-amples of the effect of erosion for. In addition to the usual weathering, here Is shown the effect of slumping strata, due to the burning of lignite coal where the veins were exposed on the canyon wall nnSI which are still burning miles under-ground. But the geological nnd scenic are not tha only attractions o" this country. It has a host of historic associations, too, the most Interesting of which center around the activities of a young New Yorker, named Theodore Roosevelt, who ar-rived there one September morning In 1S3.1 In search of both health and adventure. He went first to the Chimney Butte ranch as the guest of the owners, Sylvane and Joe Ferris and Wil-liam J. Merrlfield, and, after a 'buffalo hunt with Joe Ferris, entered Into a partnership with Mer-rifiel- d nnd Sylvane Ferris and started a cow ranch with the maltese cross brand. Later he brought out from Maine two woods-men friends, Sewell nnd Dow, to help start the Eikhorn ranch lower down on the Little Missouri and his brand for the lower ranch were-- the elk born and the trlongle. That the young easterner fell In love with the country and the life which he led there for the next three years is shown by the following quotation from the Seribner memorial edition of Roosevelt's collected works; I do not believe that there was ever any life-mor-attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch In those days. It was a fine,' healthy life, too; It taught a man e, hardihood and the value of instant decision In short, the virtues that ought to come from life In the open country. 1 enjoyed the life to the full. After the first year I built on the Klkhorn ranch a long, low, ranch house of hewn logs, with a veranda, and with. In addition to the other rooms, a bedroom for myself, and a sitting room with a big fireplace. 1 got out a rocking chair I am very fond of rocking chairs and enough books to fill two or three shelves, and a rubber bathtub ao thut I could get a bath. And then I do not see how anyone could have lived more comfortably. We had buffalo robes and bearskins of our own kill-ing. We always kept the house clean using the word in a rather large sense. There were at least two rooms that were always warm, even in the bitterest weather; and we had plenty to eat. Com-monly the mainstay of every meal was game of our own killing, usually antelope or deer; sometimes grouse or ducks, and occasionally In the earlier d.iys, buffalo or elk. . . . We also bad flour and bacon, sugar, salt and canned tomatoes And later, when some of the men married and brought out their wives we had all kinds of good things, such as Jams and Jellies, made from the wild plums and the buffalo ber-ries, and potatoes from one forlorn little garden patch. . . . My home ranch stood on the river brink. (Note the site Is marked X in the picture shown Rhove.) from tho low, long veranda, shaded by leafy one looks across sandbars and shallows to a strip of meadowland, behind which rises a line of sheer cliffs and grassy plateaus. Tills veranda is a pleasant place in the summer evenings when a cool breeze stirs along the river and blows In the faces of the tired men, who loll back In thetr rncklng chairs (what true American does not en-joy a rocking chair?), book In hand though they do not often read the book, but rock gently to and fro, gazing sleepily out at the weird-lookin- g huttes opposite, until their sharp lines grow Indistinct and purple In the nfterglow of the sunset Rough board shelves held a number of books, without which some of the evenings would have been long Indeed. No ranchman who loves sport can afford 'o be without Van Dyke's "Still Hunter." Dodge's 'Tlalns of the Creat West." or Caton's "Deer and Antelope of America," and Coue's "I'.lrds of the Northwest" will be valued If he cares at all for natural history. A western p'.dlnsman Is re-minded every day by the names of prominent land-marks among which he rides that the country was known to men who spoke French long befre any of his own kinsfolk came to it, and hence he reads with a double Interest Parktnan's histories of the early Canadians. As for Iivln, Hawthorne, Cooper, Lowell and the other standbys, I suppose no man, Kast or West, would willingly be long without them; while for lighter readings there are dreamy Ik Marvel, Burroughs' breezy pages, and the oualnt, pathetic character sketches of the southern writers Cable. Craddock, Macon, Joel Chandler Harris, and sweet Sherwood Bonner. And when he la In the Bad Lands one feels as If they somehow look lust exactly as Poe'a tales and poems sound. That ranch house which he mentions now stands on the state copltol grounds at Bismnrck ns a memorial to t lie great American who was once a citizen ot North Dakota, but otherwise the scones of his ranching days, which will be In-cluded in the proposed national park, are but little changed from what they weie when T. R. rode on the round-u- or hunted for game there. And North Dakotnns, who point to the fact that II was here. that the future Rough Rider of Spanish-Am-erican war days, governor of New York nnd vice president of the United States, learned his lessons of "self-relinnc- hardihood and the vnlue of Instant decision" which mode him one of our truly great Presidents, believe that ail Americans who hold his memory In reverence will be Interested In seeing the new national park established In their state, not only because of the scenic wonders which it will preserve, hut as a fitting memorial to the man It will honor wbeo It bears the name of Roosevelt National park. 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The 4,3!H),710 shares of Gulf Oil company stock held by the Mellons Is cited as one reason. And this Is only one of the big Industries In which the Mellon family Is Inter-ested. Useless Baggage The trouble with many people, says a great scientist. Is that they spend too much time "pocking trunks" they cannot take with them and that would contain few useful things If they did. American Magazine. Let It! Jim You shouldn't use rouge. It Injures the skin. Mae Well, who ever sees that? Children of England have given up the collecting of cigarette pictures in favor of holding sidewalk Charleston contests. Some people are always Inherit inf money. That's the kind of a family to be in. |