Show 0 binl 10 AA 7 mo OV 4 1 alt jaike V r aa 4 N IV 41 A na X 00 t 4 31 10 IL A I 1 r or ES I 1 E E NT 9 KA 0 0 kr U vr ac 0 R T h aa GRAND L CANYON PARK d PARK V A t l by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN for the I 1 residents resident s forest something new I 1 something significant 1 interesting I 1 A joint resolution S J res creating the I 1 residents I 1 lorest orest m within the present national forest arizona has been introduced by senator reed smoot of utah and referred to the committee on public lands and surveys the resolution after defining the boundaries provides that the land and tim ber her are hereby withdrawn from settlement location occupancy grazing or pr disposal under the laws of the united I 1 and dedicated and set apart as a game oA sanctuary actuary and forest pie pe serve serie for the benefit and enjoyment of the he people and shall hereafter be known As the presidents forext 1 i the presidents forest it if this resolution Is passed by both houses ft IN III therefore be the name of approximately acres of timber forever set et aside for or the people and forever barred to pur chaser chaser homesteader miner stockman lumberman resident hunter and trapper under the present form of the resolution control will remain in the forest service ernice of the agricultural department which controls the baibak national forest and all national forests to all intents and purposes the loreha will be a part of the grand canyon national park which runs into it on the south and Is in charap of the national park service of the interior department lepart department ment I 1 so go the president presidents s forest Is something new the name for one thing Is new and why the president a forest because the united states Is a nation governed by laws rather than by men presidents come and presidents go As long as there Is a united states there will A III be a president and as iona as apere Is a president there NN will ill be the presidents president 8 forest and the presidents forest Is new in form too there theres s nothing just like it its nearest in form to a national park it has size majesty and beauty private and commercial interests are barred it Is a game sanctuary it Is purely for the benefit and enjoyment of the people all of which closely describe a national park certainly it Is far removed in form from a na lional forest the national forests as established by law are purely commercial and industrial in for the application for profit of eclen lumbering and grazing to the nations in wood lots though as a matter of fact there Is instead of a profit an annual deficit of a million and more and the forest service Is exploiting the national forests forests as recreational rivals to national parks anyway the presidents I 1 lorest orest will be one for est eat where the forest service cannot insist upon trying to combine cattle and campers wood mood chop pers and tree lovers sheep and tourists cattle in a wild beauty spot are a calamity sheep are a catastrophe the movement to create the presidents for est has a significance that gladdens the nature lovers lover a heart it betokens an increasing national appreciation of the value of scenery as a natural resource as a national asset it betokens an in creasing national consciousness that it Is not well to lay the as ax to every forest to turn the cattle and sheep loose on the shrubs and flowers of ev cry ery wild beauty spot the kaibab rational national forest Is approximately 40 miles square and contains 10 1 02 2900 acres it stands on the kaibab plateau which rises up from the desert that surrounds it on m the north east and west and slopes down dow n to 8 feet at ta tie e north him rim of the grand canyon the president s forest Is the east halt half of the national forest the northwest part of the I 1 resident residents s forest shoulders up on to buck skin mout moul tain so gothere there are mountains and vat val levs covered with gnarled one seeded juniper and pinon and nath majestic western vellow pine wl ich are ar three and four feet tl rough and rise fer tl TI erna some dougl douglas as I 1 11 I 1 and some spruce ravines are clad with tl e I 1 ahter green of the aspen alich NO ich cl anges to vivid yellow gold and red in tl tie e fall iii ua au NN within the forest the trees stop half halfway may down the rimming elopes and leave room tor for white clover grass and 11 14 f 4 1 4 A y if 4 A a op 01 4 10 VA 4 it 4 V A mhd av flowers and for wild strawberries straw berries about a spring this vast ast remote rugged heavily timbered kal kai bab national forest Is still a wild place in spite of the fact that tl ti of cattle and sheep have been grazing in it for years it Is still so wild that there are at least 10 black tall deer in it though they shrink in disgust from the cattle and sheep there are many mountain lions that live itne on the deer this is the way may senator smoots joint resola tion came to be introduced stephen T mather director of the nati nation onil il park service drove drone from the n rth through the kaibab national forest to the north rim of the grand canion upon his return to INas lington he wrote the following let ter to president harding dear mr air pres dent last summer I 1 visited the wonderful country at the orth north rim of the grand canyon and was pro impressed with the splendid forest and the extraordinary display of wild life to be found there this region has been EO so isolated from transportation centers that it has remained almost untouched and Is one of the very largest areas of virgin forest in the country it Is reliably estimated that there are some thirteen thousand deer in the kaibab national forest I 1 was accompanied by mr emerson hough rough the well known writer who suggested for this splendid tract the name of the president presidents s forest A few weeke weeks later in los angeles I 1 met mr air E J marshal I 1 ire ident of the gland giand can on cattle company the corporation which has conducted cattle grazing operations in thia this forest for a number of years and was very much gratified to find a ready and enthusiastic response to the idea of maintaining thia this region solely as a game preserve and tor for public enjoyment since then he has very generously made the offer wh ch I 1 have the honor of transmitting to you in the accompanying letter this offer means a very real sacrifice on the part of the grand canyon cattle company in abandoning the improvements which they made and relinquishing the prospect of a considerable profit from their operation mr mar shall s other interests however are considerable and he cheerfully makes thia this sacrifice in a truly public spirited manner may I 1 express the hope mr president that you ou may find an opportunity of visiting the president presidents s forest yourself nna feeling the inspiration of its vast nesi and crspo unspoiled uns poled led beauty ahe leter of mr marshall to president harding Is in part as fit follows the grand canyon cattle company a california corporation has been operating here for a number of years under leases from the united states forest ice and during that time has made extensive and valuable improvements particularly in the develop ment of water supply and the erection of stone cat tie camp buildings the company owns certain pat anted tracts of land within the boundary boun dates es of the tor for est reservation and several tracts of located scrip lands in the immediate vicin ty at the present time we are graz ng a herd of breeding cattle number ng about 4 head under permit from the forest service we desire to register our w 11 bigness to vacate and abandon the habab ka bab forest reser re vaton on and the pub lie lands immediately dimmed abely adjoining to the east thereof zing that by so do ng the purposes of former president roosevelt in establishing a game preserve here could be more completely fulfilled and making the entire region avia lable for the public enjoys ent our only request Is that a reasonable time be given the company to d spose of and move its liv livestock k and other personal property and that in recognition of our action such grazing perm ts is be not hereafter issue 1 to other livestock interests in the area now covered by our permit arrangements have be amade nm ade through private in divi duals tor for acquiring the company s patented land holdings which are to be presented to the united states tates without cost to t e government it m was as the original suggestion that the president should er create aate the presidents forest by ex order the president however preferred action by congress to insure permanency hence the joint resolution sen ator smoot was pleased to introduce the resolution utah Is tre i I 1 interested in the ex of the region north of the lie grand canyon senator smoot says say s it Is a wonderland it is indeed a land of scenic beauties of geological marfels man els of strange contrasts of romantic history the high plateau of utah is divided by canyons into nine distinct plateaus which drop the surface in successive cliffs from nearly the summit level of the wasatch mountains to the desert out of which rises the kaibab plateau these cliffs ex pose in turn strata representing many millions of years of world building they curve and twist in fantastic outlines they take tale every po possible isible eros lonal form they literally run the gamut or of color and shade and tint there is no space here for detailed description of tl e pink cliff the white cliff and the verall ion cliff of the great hurricane fault the natural bridges and the rainbow bridge of the pali ted desert of lee lees s ferry across the colorado where john D lee hid out for 0 years after the moun tain fain meadows massacre of dixie land of cotton and semi tropical fruits of the varie varle gated hills of sediment from a prehistoric sea alon along the pariah river where are gold and free mercure mercury zion rational national park parl a deep many colored gorge cut in the plateau by the rio virgin is ls famous cedar breaks a marvel of eros lonal forms form and stratified color Is yet to be seen by the public bryce canyon a thousand foot niche in the top ot of tie tl e link I 1 ink cliff an amphitheater like canyon slow sl ow ing an endless variety of eros lonal forms painted in ev e every v ery color shade and tint of the artists pal ette Is one of the most gorgeous spectacles of the world southern utah and northern arizona are working together to exploit this land of wonders A branch railroad Is likely to be run from lund to cedar city the steel may be extended from marysvale Marys vale Nale to panguitch cedar breaks bryce canyon zion and the president presidents s forest are to be connected by automobile highways over the routes indicated by the broken lines according to present plans A bridge across the colorado at lees ferry Is planned two of the colorado utah highways to be constructed by colorado under the federal aid plan will strike southern utah thus connecting this region with mesa verde and rocky mountain national parks tl TI ere Is a bill in congress to make bryce cana can on the utah national park it Is more likely to be made a state park cedar breaks may be added to zion national park so there will soon be thousands of tourists pushing from the north to the north him rim there were w ere 1200 last season and now that the kalbac suspension bridge has been built across the col orado in the grand canyon a large proportion of south kirn rim visitors of whom here tl ere were CO last sear will cr er ss to the north pirn pini on the north rim there is scant room for the public with in the national park lines hence the need of tl TI e president presidents s forest in these circumstances s mr bir average man why not make the president presidents s forest a part of the grand canyon national park because it can cant t be done answers the exferd encee national pirk park it least not now the people will be lucky to muster enough votes in congress to get the joint resolution through agh the agricultural department and the forest tee ice as usual would fight to the last ditch to pre vent the transfer of national forest land to a na lional park and the interior department ani an 1 tie tl e national nation nil ll pirk park service huh hub I 1 didn dian t tl TI eodore horose roosevelt elt mal e tl e grand cana canyon on a n mon ament january 11 1008 with the ilea that it would be made a national park at oi 01 ce in response to the nationwide nation wide demind but tie tl e monument m was as put in an charge of the agricultural department instep I 1 of being transferred to tl e interior de pirt ment and t it tale tal e the people just eleven airs one month and fifteen d bivs ays fr in janary 11 1008 1908 to get their grand canyon NI flot il p pirt pirl irl vert verl sap I 1 oi of e benti us ast writes of the president Ident s I 1 F r est as t tl I 1 e grandest i athral work w arh of ain igi avi bod ro v left in all the AN world orld suffice it to siv that as a forest it is a worthy companion to th I 1 brand grand la ca yon the canyon of canyons Canyon sl 1 |