Show MESA BUSIEST SEASON YET mesa verde national park was visited by persons during the past tourist season this figure compared with visitors during the 1927 season with the rapidly increasing popularity of the park government officials have installed two acres of galvanized corrugated rooting to catch water enough to meet the summer demand these drainage areas from which water Is stored in three tanks with combined capacities of gallons augment the system of dams in use since the region was inhabited by prehistoric indians the dams built by the indians who lived on mesa verde hundreds of years ago are still used to gather the water used for drinking altho new drainage canals have been constructed to feed them |