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Show New National Monument Put Near Grand Canyon A new national monument has been set apart on the Grand canyon of Arizona, about 60 miles downriver from the point in Grand canyon national na-tional park now most visited by tourists. tour-ists. The new area, which will be known as Grand canyon national monument, comprises a total of 382 square miles, and has one magnificent magnifi-cent vantage point from which one can look down on the Colorado, winding wind-ing its way at the bottom like a silvery sil-very ribbon. From moat point on th rim in the present Grand canyon national park th river is quite Invisible. In-visible. Another feature of the new national na-tional monument is a volcanic cone, thrown up in some long past time end now wholly extinct It bears the Imposing name of "Vulcan's Throne." Nationel monuments, as distinguished distin-guished from national parks, are areas which ara either less accessible to the public or for one reason or another an-other sre not suitable for Immediate development and administration on the regular national park scale. We are here becaus we tried to get (long without God. Dr. Robert E. Speer, senior secretary of the ' Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. |