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Show THE DEVIL'S TOWER. Shall It Become Private Property or National Park? The people of the new state of Wyoming Wyo-ming are stirred up over a possibility that they regard with something like horror. One of the great natural attractions of the commonwealth is the Devil's tower, situated in Crook county, twenty miles west of Sun Dance, and but a short distance dis-tance from the Belle Fourche river. This crystalline basaltic formation is 1,200 feet high, and has a diameter at the base of 800 feet, which tapers to one of 875 feet at the top. "The Devil's Tower," says Professor Newton, "in its shape and structure appears ap-pears not to have been repeated elsewhere else-where by nature, but stands alone '"'K-5-.:::;;,.f:;5"; ej-lj-J"rvoV , WYOMING'S UNIQUE ATTRACTION, unique and mysterious. - It occupies the place of a chimney to some subterranean furnace, which, overflowed with molten rock and cooling, crystallized downward. down-ward. The surrounding walls of the chimney eroded, and left this mighty monument to the work of crystallization -that power scarcely less mysterious than the force of life itself." So much for the tower, which naturally natur-ally is a great show spot. The trouble about it is this: It stands on government land, and an English woman, Miss Carlisle Car-lisle Kent by name, recently filed a preemption pre-emption on the 160 acres in which it is included at the Douglas land office. The people of the region thereabouts desire the tower and its surroundings to be set aside as a national park, and consequently consequent-ly they are fighting Miss Kent's application applica-tion tooth and nail. The lady in the case is a native of Lancashire and about 45 years of age. She has traveled extensively, exten-sively, is well off and just before filing her claim took out naturalization pa- |