| Show MAKE A bfATE PARK iQClode the Hiaiiwaters 01 tbs Provo Bear Webir and DachiSDe tKTIU IIUMHini MJUAIirMILLS hInt Dr fauit AdTecalH I btfora the lorrlrr tsmanulailu a sit TMtj linen 11 rihrunrj hi l Mr JnU l aiJ Mmttrt of 1111 Socitly We are asking Contren to appropriate appropri-ate and let indite nil of that country at the heailtratera oh Ihe four livers known at the Provo the Hear the Weber and the Ducheane 01 a paik ThIn park hould Im fifty mile In length by at least thirty In width and the center ahould be at the nortlmut corner monument of the Indian reaervatlon which dlualetl on llild Mountain This 10 eask CongreMto do ao that the timber could 1 be protected which timber li haul being destroyed by tint ber men being employed Iron time to time In cuuing lien and other timber ThIs timber mutt be preserved as 10 proteci Ihe snows that fill ao deep In the winter time and uhlcli aflord ui water for Irrigation without which we will go short tar our farm producta Untoa aomelhlnli Ii speedIly done to arreat the wanton destruction of that timber countr we will aulTer from drouth such as en boyd neer een before be-fore The tie men oIlIoy < more than any other class of lumber men I haven have-n trees nxty feet hlxh cut down an I ncrhaiM but one lie cut ofT the ret If I left to rot or even woro to be burned II 1 that tree were tile only one cut It might not matter ao muchbut making room to lilt at hue I one wanted they frequently IIAVO to cut Ave or sin smaller one nil of which will I dry and help to rrcld iHeli l the I opportunity I hun hrci Die tienun will a > k whit he hall door do-or hit tie Him I would ask what will > you do when the limber the head waten of the rl verne ro cone You I would co to the Sierra Nevada or aome oilier place why not go there now It la I with thU ita with everything In life the most 100 < 1 to Ihe grealeit number num-ber of people ahould hIm I observed Ask any of the old Inhablunla and they wilt I IIt1 itI IT tell r you that before the timber wa removed re-moved the canyons near I tlilt city It wm much cooler In Ihe city ihan It H now In Ihe auminer and being cool In time canon you did not have to go far up Ot cmmfs to get mini J numum you would h Jn lucre to go nearly to the top At Ihrre have been few 01 you up on 1 Ilald Mountain t or any of Ihe other neaka that tower auay above timber line I would say conic with me and let tit climb haul which li about twelve thouund feet abuve the level of the aca From 1 hero you can look to the went and lee Deep Creek mountain south and you can aee the Whlt mountains southwest U I Mount Ncbo null many other mountain looking east you gaze 01 Reeds leak 11000 feet above the level of the sea and suppoied to be the tillest mountain in Utah looking all around you can see mountains unlll the eye will tire From here you can see the smoke from the smelters of Park City and with a field giant you rail also sec Ian ton You look down upon great forests that are so green that In this distance they look black TIme great question with I us Is bhall these grand old loresls be destroyed or shall they be Incorporated 1 cI llbh In the Slate l rl Iaikf Shall they remlan In their mthe purity and protect the everlasting onnuos that furnish us with the pure waters which are essential to man and all things nIne created or shall we sit down and l silently look on and see the destruction that Is annually occurring I can sea In each and every nuns ace No we will Kith our humble ellorts protest pro-test and lend our old to Increase these forests rather thin see them diminish With us it Is Woodman spare that Incest Again let us look from this mountain the mother of four rivers whose heads nru within five miles ol each other You can aland here anil count sixty lakes whom waters areas clear as a toiln cVmmt has no filtered water ccarer than thIs Those lakes will in time bo dammed and lime water held until It Is I wanted In mid lumnllr 1 hake not been to all of them but on Ibis Irovo and Weber side I have been loslxlyiwo These likes are from a quarter of a mile 10 two and three quarters quar-ters of a mile around When ball Lake City gels short of waler there ti the place to get II I look upon them as lImit grandest water resources In the Und and the cheapest to bring In to this I city This has been and will > again one of the greatest game countries the Weal when tIme park shall be protected from tl 11 it Ie l af Ihe staughler of game llearrlver nt the I head runs northeast Into Wi online thence to Soda bprlngs I Idaho uuli oocfrl ltlj southwest Into thencu 11 Citeat Salt lathe gathering water from many springs and rivulets unlll Ills a large river Its course Is something of the shape of a wagon how Ihe I Weber starts to tIme smobtil weal and gathers be waters of many a 5 ia hill and dale Us genual course Is I northwest until It empties ill Into the I Great S i Salt Lake near OKUCII having undo o half moon in Its course 1 1 he lakes that form the head of 1rovo lie around thin went cr the mountain rIte Irovo river runs south and Ihen west supply log many landholders cnroute and thin implies Into > Utah laths One ol lImo lakes that supply It lies on a divide and while on the north side Ihe water runs Into the Weber at Ihe south a stream rims Into the Provo river us w cllI I he Duchcsne I has a few lakes Ij Ing close I up lo the aId on the south a-Id which are Us luaduairrs IIlls 1 river Is hut a small stream running through a vast forest for a great many miles These forests should be covered by a park will protected to save It Irom the selllirs who wll nellie the Indian reservation ere long It Is not Ihe amount of snow that falls but w hat U retained that does the good tl nt oill that Is so cuenlial to us all in Utah hence we should protect the tree that in turn hmruhedts the siioudrllt Another reason why Congress should l grant this rtquest for the park Is I that there Is not another spot on earth like it I stand on this mountain and gate upon this great panorama ol natute li I Indeed wonderlul Mountain peaks large and small and of every conceivable shape from a sugar loaf to a coflmill slimline out from one another and scam Ing to bo vlml with each other which should look the most majestic and the grandest It would take the scenery of llm Alp thI babies of bwllzerland the lIver Rhine and the Sierra Nevn la all 10 rival huts baulllul 1101 1010Iher 10 ba on It There Is I not A dollar spent 10 mike a road to It Tie clip encept will como when there ulll bo built railroad like that up Mount Kin or 1iVrti Peak Tourists and artists in cJ noVo but by nil means visit not a to Kuropel j th ltl thus Ktk f of Utah and behold the great wauks 01 auburn ° nklcSiclllllorS I would say lei l Jt och nnn woman and child In Utah plant a tire thIs > eor and MCII succee mK your men It will not be long unlll we will hans All the timber we wan The lime for planting is Iron thue Im lhe acorn falls In the autumn until the bud come In the spring |
