Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-08 | Page 8 | Shipbuilder Gives Big Park to City

I I I SHIPBUILDER GIVES BIG PARK TO CITY 0 OLMPIA Wash May y 7 A A park of 2600 00 acres on Oreas Orcas Island one of ot the beauty spots In the Puget Sound basin has las been presented to the state mato 01 or of Washington by Robert Moran Seattle shipbuilder The gift gUt has been accepted by y the new state parks committee and andt It t will be the first unit In a sYstem of parks and highway camping camping- places contemplated In an act of ot the last legislature leg- leg slature The Orcas Oreal Island park completely surrounds a montain lake more than a amile amile amile mile long Adjacent to the new park is Mount Constitution 2400 feet teet high and end the highest lt elevation In Pu Puget et Sound Soun proper prop prop- er r. r This mountain Is readily ascended l land and from Its summit Is obtained a remarkable view of or western Wash ash ington and British Columbia Clifford L I. L. L Babcock state treasurer and chairman of the th parks committee asserts that the Orcas Island park rk Is Isone Isone isone one of the Jar largest est state parks In the nation being exceeded so far as his records show only by Custer State park In South Dakota which contains cr crR g