| Show 0 I 1 k P toll 4 4 4 ilk abw 41 41 f lit f f 1 1 ay kt 1 ase se 14 C 11 1 k a I 1 f T 0 4 I 1 t ANY fell a vaz ZM 4 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN LACIER NATIONAL PARK up next to the canadian line HBO la in montana and a 9 public playground of the elret r 1 I 1 SOS and ILI its moat most successful sea eon 8 on la 1023 and will doubtless doubt les bet set a new record this year glacier will come COMO to its own in the matter of at with ith the completion of at if its Trans mountain road across the continental tin divide over locan logan pass r cow row ow in the third year of construction by the national PArO park service already the berrice service la is planning for an substantial exten extensions alm to present accod I 1 lor or visitors which will then be necee I 1 sary says stephen T mather mother director of the national iOnal park service in hie his 1023 1 annual report to the secretary of the interior in 11 common with the h majority M ot of th the other national I 1 park parks glacier her most success rul ful on nor more patronage thin that in any prey IOUs year IUIS having registered in the park an compared comp rd ath alth ittia visitors in 1121 1923 this Is only a of t a tremendous increase la a travel that 12 I 1 certain it take place on oil the corn earn 0 of th the road now la ilk if its third year roar of construction motorists traveling the th SkOr northern thom highways to glacier ever bar bay 11 had d a direct rout routs acra accor so the tb continental divide this barrier requiring a detour of 0 several hundred miles to th the south th the hokd road crossing the continental divide through pue pass will elde from furnishing a direct mean means of traversing 1 abe tb mountain mountains attract thousands at 0 motorists motor lati by its unsurpassed this is food good as far as a it goes but the situation anay be made plainer by a more detailed e explanation epla of Gla cleri clees hard luck in the matter of automobile highways an at attendance of only AM for IS a first clim class national park like glacier li is a joke and a bad one but the reason reasons tor for thia this comparatively mall small attendance are easily found A few year tears aco ago the bilk of the tourist travel to the oal parks was wast by railroad now the balk bulk of jt Is by private car the per cent contrasting Contrast examples rocky mountain MOUnia ln in 1023 bad private cars in which probably more than 80 per cent of at its visitors tr traveled glacier bad UZI private cars not more than 50 per cent of its AM visitors arrived by private car cu this tells part of the story rocky mountain Is of no higher class than glacier and Is only about cne one quarter as large loo square miles in the one and 2639 in the other but rocky mountain Is the accessible by automobile from the and population lOll center of the country of all the 19 12 national parks another alother factor ra in the attendance attendants comparison between rocky mountain and glacier Is this pach rach park pak has an independent east and west entrance on an either side of the continental divide ea each ch entrance taking care of at separate pants and bud distinct lines of I 1 automobile tourist travel in rocky mountain the eaxt out and west are estes park and grand lake zake in 10 glacier they are glacier park and belton in III rocky mountain MOunt kill the fall river road crosses the continental divide connects estes park and grand lake and find makes possible through traffic which otherwise would be impossible jn in automobile autom tourist travel from both the and west halts hafts at the continental divide the great northern which serves glacier and mus along alon the south tin line of the park ameliorates be so situation by maintaining dally daily shipments of motor can between the two entrances unless take advantage of this rail mil shipment they we to make a wide detour either through Mont anaas as far south as Hele or through canada what the fall river road dow does for rocky mountain the Trans mountain road wilt will ao for glacier bere here I 1 ir what the 1023 2111 reports says of the profess pros ress elf the work work on section ot at the Trans woun latia joao 4 on the tb wot most aide id wu was boa and about sw miles ext extending endine from rom th the nd end of the th ant first sao 0 o 0 at the tb bead head of at lak lake up mcdonald uld ork to above avalanche cm creek will b be this fall 1021 alo also a contract ban ha been lit lot tor for the tb construction of 0 sight or nine miles mil on the th set it a ida id including the th construction of a bride bridge ac cro rose t th he BL SL mary niver extending from st mary chalet long along the th north hore shore of SL 81 mary lake toward go ing ln to the sun chalet with construction under way war on both aide sides of the continental divide th the road can be pushed with more a peed to completion and here li Is a R glimpse into the future that prom lee ise all kinds of thing things for glacier glader it will be 47 boly a short tide time before the babb international BOUnt boundary lary road li Is improved this irvind nine runs through the indian reservation adjoin ing glacier on the east and will connect with the canadian national hat Nat lonal parks highway system th the a national park to park highway which connects all the western national parks Is in full operation and getting better every season the banff win delmere highway IlIg hway across the canadian Roc Lles opened last year makes direct connection with the Nati national part park to park IlIg highway hway at spokane wash with the babb international boundary Boua dary ardad and the road completed glacier will of fer much to automobile tourists any car owner in the united state states or canada can eastly reach glacier either to stay or go a va the T be entire scenic west america and canadian will be open to him when glacier comes to its own its attendance will jump up amazingly and what it gains it will keep for its visitors have a habit of going back year after year glacier has bits it its devotees jat just as have rocky mountain 13 h colorado and yosemite in a california yellowstone yellow stone oldest biggest and most famous of all our 19 national parks has been lacking in this to date take mary roberts rinehart Iti nature lover outdoor woman oman novelist and nature walter writers hes an ali example she has been much in ilk glacier and here ie in the way glacier got her her enthusiasm induced her to write an appreciation of glacier tor for publicity purposes and arid heres what she says la in part ther there are ar no keep ott the th oraa grose signs ign in glacier national park it li Is th wildest part of at amor amer lea ICIL it li Is perhaps the lh mot most unique ot at all lit our parks ai as it li Is undoubtedly the moat roost matillie raaf mAtil nin lil cent hire the hocky rocky mountain run north welt and southeast and in n the glacier carved ba sins in are great spaces cool coot shadowy depth depths in which II 11 lie blue lake lakes mountain sides threaded with whit white where from rom some hiddai like ink or glacier tar tap above the overflow fall falls a tho thousand U a and feet fast or 0 r more and over all the great silence of the nock tea iier nere li to the last home at 0 a race the indiana her la Is the last tand stand of the he R mountain sheep and the rocky mountain coat goat ber here are ilk ak deer door black and grassly bear beam and mount mountain lin llona long her are tralle trails that follow the old ram came trail trails the tb Moun mountain talla tide alai her here meadow ot of jupe june roses forret forget me not larkspur pur and ana indian paintbrush crowing growing bei be i bids aid glaciers rIa elTi and trail trails of a beauty to make you yo but there li is no vole voice in all the th world arid so 0 o insistent to me u a the th wordless call of at the thefts MO mountain U I 1 hill fro back thoe those who it ro one once alway always hop hope to ro go back the lure ot at tb the great tree free spaces pace I 1 is in their blob one ono can imagine without the lightest difficult difficulty ty a thron of devotees of other lat lon parks surrounding mrs MM rinehart bawling ber her out in per t factly e c t 1 y pol polite 1 t e 1 language m g u g N of ot course cour seand ena asking in n unison u n 1 s 0 n how 1 1 0 w do d 0 y you 0 u p get t that way maur and the babel sifted out interpreted and reduced to prosaic utterance would contain these statements there theres nothing in glacier wilder than ire areas ares la in other park glacier perhaps the most unique BIQue 13 nor la is it undoubtedly undoubtedly y the most other park parks hay glacier glader carved arved basins basow 1 lakes gladen glacier falls wild animals and dowers flowers yellowstone Tellow stone beata beats all the parks except possibly mount for wild animal life rocky mountain probably has his more a sheep than glitter glacier mount rainier ie in the cham them plon wild flow flower park the are a liability ty rather than an asset inasmuch Inan as they 81 slaughter AUghter relent relentlessly leally the park game came that traya strays into their reservation the big gam came on OU the east side aide of the divide la Is gradually being wiped out glaciers highest mountain mount cleveland cleve lank Is to only feet fleet rocky mountain baa has 43 3 between and 14 feet gettie down to tb oil really rey balque ftorek ft oree of the do ciyou I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 lit w f I 1 r i I 1 ill 1 ma ul vie in if re I 1 in n I 1 lr 10 lhnn ann nil till tie tl rt root if f alo 1 I I 1 U I 1 I 1 t letl M I 1 int n kill ro r kit cl I 1 nit at 1 1 in I 1 u 1 4 hapl kh ilare 11 0 f I 1 r arr I 1 ike ril 1 I 14 if I 1 1 ll 11 I it alf t firt aft r II 11 I 1 r v 1 n I 1 I 1 11 I 1 hl I 1 I 1 I 1 k 1 I 1 int n I 1 1 iri arll I 1 a D I 1 ai n 1 I 1 r I 1 r 0 it in ou own n rl I 1 i it in IP tin hit t fini I 1 t it i i wll lo 10 inkila ink til in tl it ollia 01 III 11 1 SK I ft i via n rf i alit f inn it 11 ro enn a mil nill I 1 n BIL irtis 1 INK too f 1 I I 1 it n re arit rot than 11 ft ct 1 in adlain cpr s it t are ni nit re it n mim fit I 1 in dl 11 nn tin tt I 1 r nn fin atit 1 me ot tit 10 kiri t find goldst old ft I 1 idill flaw tt 1 of porth 1 if nal park tient ai tit larg 1 pit llant in the world mauna M u n a loa and hi lauen ft active e t I 1 v 9 for a century with ill its lake of I 1 ure ire which draw draws til from all the wort corll 1 M 31 hinley nley in Is ally the world arid a loft loftiest lest M mountain 0 U n t a I 1 B alnee it rles mor mors than feet above sea level ond and at feet above its it sur ur roun round dlag lne valleys val leya mesa N erde contains the most not able and best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings dwell lne lu in the unit ed states if not lo 10 the world grand canyon earth s largest and noblest example of e ero r 0 s eloa I 1 0 n gorgeously carved and colored Is one of the natural wonder wonders of the world curiously enough mrs mm rinehart omitted mention of the one feature that in the opinion OPIA of many does entitle glacier to a place among the unique national parts parks its lewis and the gorgeous coloration of its mountains zion mon no a tiomai park in utah bryce canyon in it utah illery to be made the utah Nation atlo nM ki park and grand canyon carlys ZI probably surpass glacier in coloration but their colors are down doun in the depths while gla GIs alers are flung up into the sky row now doat dont be scared seared by the lewis tt heres briefly what the geologists mean by the term the rock nearest the center of the earth Is called and the geologists know very lit tie about it the next oldest strata are the algon afan which were laid as is an fin ocean bottom sediment something like yeara years ago it li Is thia this Algon Llan group that are exposed in glacier nowhere in the world are they the y displayed 1 la such area profusion and variety and find in it such magn magnificence Ift of coloring these Algon klan rocks lie ile in four differently col ored strata all of which the glacier glace r visitor may see for himself the lowest Is the altyn allyn limestone about 1600 feet thick it weathers a pale baff ba there are whole yellow tellow of this on the eastern edge of glacier next above ile stratum of Appe kunny arelline arel lite or green shale about feet thick it weathers every possible hade shade of dull green next above that lie ile about 2200 2 aw fet feet of grinnell or red ehnle it weathers every possible shade of deep red rd and purple on top Is about 4 feet of 01 slyer I 1 limestone mes t one gray and running la In places to yellow horizontally through the middle of this Is a broad dark band called the he diorite intrusion now when these brilliantly colored strata strait were thrust cp up from the bottom of the sea they were practically level then there came a gi Ki paulc gallIc squeeze the strata yielded in long irregular Irre guhr wave ilke folds finally they crack brackets ets and slid then broke brokl one brolin edge the western we sfern was thrust upward aid a id over the oher other this western e edge was thousands of feet thick it overlapped the eastern edge ten to fifteen miles this Is the lewie lewis range it Is OTer thrust that nc ne counts for the inconceivably tumbled character of the vat rocky amrel mawes ther there is a sag lag where the park lies iles A horizontal line 10 drawn straight bt across C would pass through the bottom of the limestone altyn allyn on oil the tint and nd west boundaries and find in the middle of the lie park through the top of tte tle slyer limestone it would cut diagonally through the green and red ille en on both eldea sidel of the continental divide the informed tourist doubt legi tn to h 4 self belt as its he bead leads the flivver west wn an fine na tion till park parks in a row Rocky rock y bolint tone stone and glacier Gin cler AH all three in ohp jocklen ani on the continental divide all bucl trill c I 1 alike mike see oae anil and ive seen in them all that the rec elty of the th CAMP of lot ear that the federal and the N tiona I 1 parka and many out of door or are aging to fret iret the american Ame peo peon pie pit to ice see ther their parks with understand ing as welt well as emotionally for hocky rocky mountain yellowstone y and glade are essentially different rocky mountain Moun tala Is geitel gra alte a roost most astonishing aggregation of loft ofte peaks and ad beautiful valleys parched V t on tb the tot op of the continental divide yellowstone la volcanic with volcanic lule activities everywhere in evidence glacier ie Is sedimentary rock twisted and bud jumbled and gorgeously gorge onAy colored congress lias ills just passed an act set prizing the making ot a IS budget for road purposes es la in the national park parks carrying car a tola of over three yeam if it funds are appropriated gl gia alers tentative allotment 1 to this would doubtless harry hum the Trans mountain road to completion ion lon speed the day I 1 i |
