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Show ,T JUKE 27, 192 BUS, PRICE. UTAH E VERY FRIDA stmt PAGE TEBZX JprmcfeF Nsfo&aL -- ONE OF AMERICA'S STRONGEST COMPANIES Doesnt she DESERVE Protection like this ? National park Systran thin is whut we flud: The YcUuwstwje contuiiis more and greater geysers than all the rest of the' world together. Mount $5,000 if you die from natural causes $10,000 if youof die from accident total Rainlera system single-pea- k In case permanent disability the company will with 2S living glaciers has no equal. (.rater Lake occupies the hole left after a large volcano hud sliped buck Into earth a 1. Waive all premium payments interior through its own rim; It Is the deepest and bluest accessible lake in the world. The Sequoia contains more than a mil0 lion Big Trees," of which are more than 10 feet In diameter; some are more than 80 feet in diameter and art the largest and oldest living things of earth. Hawaii National Park contains the largest living volcano In ths world, M a u n a Loa ; and Kllauea, continuously aetlvo for a century, with Its Lake of Fire, which draws visitors from all the world. Mount McKinley la scenlcally the world's 12,-00- loftiest since It 2. Pay you $2f per week for one year; and in addition 3. Pay you $yo per month for life; and 4. Pay $5,000 to your beneficiary when you die 5. If disability involves loss of limbsgjr sight as a result of accident, the company will pay you $v,ooo in cash, im mediately, in addition to all other benefits. In case of temporary disability u a result of either ikkneca or accidmt, the company will pay you f!5 per week for a limit of 9Z weeks. A Service That Endures West Coast Life INSURANCE COMPANY MOMS OfTKI-I- nUNOSCO L. A. HILLS, Special Agent PRICK, UTAH West Coast Lire Imsusancc Ca ta (1171 hw am, ren Of MmVm Km, Gnufaami a. WulMHi aMiMni 69 mountain, rises more than 20,000 feet above sea level and 17,000 feet above its sur- --jMVftrtrWB.rtk. rounding valleys. : TVtngXT-gTjriMesa Verde conr, :x'.z -- x t If J1U tains the most notable and best preXo wrong was ever righted by pass-- 1 The only shadows on the sunny side served prehistoric cliff I resolutions of the "buck." life are those we make. of ing Unitlu the dwellings In ed Stales, if not the world. .-- Jt&XGttASJ By JOHN DltKINSON SHERMAN LACIER NATIONAL BAItK, up next to the Cunudlan line in Montana and a public playground of the first rinse, hud ita moat successful sea-nbi 1923 and will doubtless aet u new record tida yeur. Glacier will come to ita own In the mutter of attendance with the completion of ita Tranainountuln Road across the Continental Divide, over Logun rasa, la the third year of construction by the na-park service. Already the service la plun-i- ( for substantial extensiiMia to present accom-fotho- s for visitors, which will then be necee-tj- . Bays Stephen T. Mother, director of the tail park service, in hla 1923 annual report to (Mretaiy of the interior: m al li tom mo n with tha majority of tha other na-- I perks, Olacler experienced her most succaaa-- 1 Mioa, enjoying more patronage than in any Tear, IS.PSS vial tors having registered in lark ss compared with II.IS5 visitors in 1121. Is ta h a forerunner dt a tremendous increass only kanl that is certain to tsko pises on ths com-- 7 of tha Transmountaln Road, now in its H year of construction. Motorists the wers high way to Glacier never traveling have had a route across tha Continental Divide, this r requiring a detour of several hundred mllea ,uth-- ' The Transmountaln Road, crossing 'Coatinental Divide through Logan Pass, will, rrom furniaiilng a direct means of traversing attract thousands of motorists by Mountains, Usurpaased scenic Is quslitiea fod as fur us It goes, but the sltuutlon itlulner by a more detailed explunn-Glider's hard luck In the matter of auto- highways. An attendance of only 1,088 notional park like Glacier Is a 11 a had one. But tlie reasons for this tajktlvely small attendance are easily found s the bulk of the tourist travel sT ,ear national parks was by railroad. Now tha It Is by private car. The per cent vsrTL examples: Rocky Mountain, In ij&t, MAX) private cars In which probably more Per cent of 1U 218,000 visitors traveled. had 6Ji99 private cars ; not more than SO mt of its 8388 visitors arrived by private This tells part of the story. Rocky ?' n- of no higher class than Glacier and Is only Quarter as large 40C square miles la and 1.589 in the othet Lqt H vKt MounOaslly sccesalble by atloroobUe geographical and population center of ittuntry of all the 13 national parks. factor In the attendance enmimrison Iounlaln and Glacier Is this : Each n bideiK-nden- t eust nnd west entrance slile of the Continental Divide, each care of separate and distinct lines of T11 tourist travel. In Rocky Mountain the M west entrances are Estes 1srk and Grand Glacier they are Glacier Turk and Hel- , t kJ Mountain the Fall River lloud . Continental Divide, connects Estes t V Crand Lake and makes possible through nlch otherwise would be Impossible. In un,,blle tourist travel from both the "d wrest halts at the Continental Divide. Northern. which serves Glacier and ,Le "u,h lln t the park, ameliorates 'Ion by maintaining dally shipments of Mweea the two entrances. Unless w. take advantage of this roil shipment 7 to make a wide detour either through 10-- -: r through south os Helena aada. V Urst-dai- is . ty " Full River Road does , Hxurk- - for Rocky Moun-'fa:l,,"nt"ln Rood will do for Gladcr. t!e 1V,a r,,Prl" Bari wf t,,e rrBr,M naj"'h',h'' second section of t to w--- tl ths Trsnsmoun-- .. side was begun and about flrat eec-- k Mrl'cnald finished Creek, n'1:n from the end of the 1 ,,f Mi Donald, up hove Avalanche will this fall (1121). Also a contract has hsen 1st for ths construction of sight or nins miles, on ths east J&CJiX JzCtufflluT tuaT Grand Canyon, Bids, lnoluding ths construction of t hridgs serosa earths largest and ths St. Msry River, extending from Bt Mary Chslat noblest example of along the north Khars of Hi. Mary Lake toward Chalet With ronutructlon under eroalon, gorgeously way on both sides of tha Continent!)! Divide, the carved and colored, Is one of tlie natural wonders Transmountaln Road can be pushed with mors of the world. speed to completion. Curiously enough, Mrs. ltlnehart omitted mention And here Is s glimpse into the future Ihut promof the one feature that. In the opinion of many, ises all kinds of things for Glacier: It will be does entitle Glacier to a place among the unique tuly s short time before the nutlouul pHrks Its Overthrusl" and tlie This road runs Boundary Road Is Improved. gorgeous coloration of Us mountains. Zion Nathrough the Blarkfeet Indian reservation adjointional I'ark In Utali, Bryce Cuuyon in Utah, likely ing Glacier on the east and will connect with the to be mude the Utah National Bark, and Grand Canadian National parks highway system. The Canyon probubly surpass Glacier In coloration, but National Highway, which connects their colors are down In the depths, while Glaall the western national parks, Is In full ojk ration cier's are flung up into the sky. nnd getting better every season. The Now, don't be scared by the Lewis Overthrust. Highway acrosa the Canadian Rockies, Heres briefly what the geologists mean by tha opened last year, makes direct connection with term: The rock nearest the center of the earth k the National Highway at Spokane, Is called Archeau nnd the geologists know very litWash. tle about It Tlie next oldest strata are the Algon-klaBoundary Road and With the which were laid as an ocean bottom sedithe Transmountaln Road completed, Cinder will ofment something like 80,000,000 years ago. It Is fer much to automobile tourists. Any car owner In this AJgonklan group that are exposed In Glacier; the United States or Canada can easily reach Glanowhere in the world are they displayed la such Scenic area, profusion and variety and In such magnificier, either to stay . go ox The entire to him. cence of coloring. West, American and Canadian, will be open When Glider comes to Its own, Its attendance These Algonklan rocks He In four differently-colore- d will will Jump up amazingly. And what It gains It strata, all of which the Glader visitor may of going back see for himself. The lowest Is the Altyn limestone, keep, for Its visitors have a habit devotees. Jurt ss about 1,000 feet thick. It weathers s pale butt year after year. Glacier has Its Yosemlte There are whole yellow mountains of this on the have Rocky Mountain In Colorado and and Yellowstone, oldest, biggest eastern edge of Glacier. Next above lies in Callforr.a. has boon stratum of Appekunny argillite, or green slinle, most famous id all our 19 national parks, about 3,400 feet thick. It weathers every possible lacking In this to dute. oit-ooure lover, shade of dull green. Next ultove that He about Take Mary Roberts Rfnchart-nathes an woman, novelist and nature wfiter-s2,200 feet of Grinnell argillite or red shale. It And weathers every jMwslble shade of deep red and purxarwle. She has been much In Glider. enthusiasm Iler her. Olader got wuy the ple. On top la about 4,000 feet of Slyeh limestone, her.- is or -Glacier-fof fa jured her to write an Appreciation gray and running in places to yellow. Horixontally she says, - And herea what purpothrough the middle of this limestone Is a broad publicity dark band called the dlorite Intrusion. In parti Gls- -in Orson" Now, when these brilliantly colored strata were signs Off the Kmo . .. , t(l wdMt port of Aim-r- Tl'cri.r. thrust up from the bottom of the sea, they were clcr National the most unlqus of all gigantic practlcully level. Then there came squeeze. , The strata yielded In long Irregular, folds. FlnaUy they crackeu and then wave-lik-e broke. One broken edge, the western, was throat upward and over the other. This western edge or was thousands of feet thick. It overlapped the feet thousand n overflow falls ' ths ,r silencs of tha Rockies , eastern edge ten to fifteen miles. tbs great sll yer m0 race the Lewis (Range) Overthrust. It Is this Is This Here la the laet horns of sthevanishing lust stand of Indian.. Here i. that accounts for the Inconceivably overthrust s?sa-- s. of the vast rocky masses. There character tumbled tain goat: hers tn Hons, Here are trails that where the Is a park lies. A horizontal line mounUIn sag bears, nnd along the mountain drawn straight across Glacier would pass through the bottom of the Altyn limestone on the east and west boundaries and in the middle of the park through the top of the Slyeh limestone. It would Th the woridT SO imlstent to me sa the wordlcaa cut diagonally through the green and red shales on both sides of the Continental Divide. Tlie uninformed tourist doubtless says to himthe great free space. U in as he heads the flivver west, Three fine nadifficulty self, the sljghlwt cun imagine without tional national parks parks In a row Rocky Mountain, Yellowa timing of devotees of other Glacier. All three In the Rockies and In nnd out stone perher Mrs. Rinehart, bawling Divide. Brobably sll much Continental on the nd course-aof fectly polite language, oae and Ive seen them all." See alike. way, that "How do you get unisonreduced to That shows the necessity of the campaign of edsifted out. Interpreted and h stateucation that the federal government and the Nacontain these uttiwance, would ortional Parks association and many American the to are peoget waging WZZLf nothing In r.Iacler wilder than ate ganizations understandiple to see their national parks with Isnt perhaps the as well as emotionally. anas m other parks. Glacier ng, undoubtedly the most most unique, nor Is It For Rocky Mountain. Yellowstone and Glacier j,ave glacier-carve- d are essentially different Rocky Mountain is solid , nimftl anJ glirlerT fall. a most astonishing aggregation of lofty h sKTnkes . granite, nU 1ie parks beautiful valleys perched on the top and flowers. life. peaks wild animal McKlnley-- for Divide. Yellowstone is volcanic, Mount Continental the of IMfisihly mountati with volcanic activities everywhere in evidence. Glacier Is sedimentary rock, twisted and Juinbled ninckfect are a Howrr Wild and gorgeonsly colored B, tbey piil than rather Congress lias Just passed an act authorizing the liability Btrays g irmklng of a budget for road building purposes In slaughter nlentlosslr ;thep.rk P the national parks, carrying a total of $7,500,000 into I heir resHtl. bring over three years. If funds nre appropriated. GlaUunt-- A Mount pi(Io of the nt. r:iacli'r's hi chest ciers tentative allotment Is fl,000,0u0. This would wijvtd jjountiiln has doubtless burry the Transmountaln Road to conk Speed the day! pletlon. of the tlie reaily unique features to down Getting Burk-to-Bar- Whos Your Banker? k Bark-to-Bar- n, al sf'sffS? 2JWSW5 aru? FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Price, Utah THREE SMALL HOUSES Terms Cheap-O- n Home Building Co. PAUL PETERSON Phone 139w sss Srrr a as s lis s a J2SSSS5. ?. ss pic Every man no matter what his Income is, should have one. 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