| Show oe 1 arm a on I 1 maw ew iona me 5 W 41 K P A Z ia n n ki IJOHN JOHN DICKINSON bherman y national non mon h ovender P ament lias has been added to HI tile the united states N na a lional park system all and palm canyon national monument lias has been well started on lie its way ho ru 4 iles on both sides bides of the bount boundary lari between colorado and utah near only spot in the united states re e four states touch and Is reed because of its prehistoric c tow and other Impress impressive ivo masonry clares palm canyon Is in south california and anda con contains talas many line linens almeas of native american palma paling rom om now on much will appear in III nt t about these two national inona lits s which will be variously de abed aed as national parks national f or national reservations and nn not 1 monuments with ate references to their control by e national int lonal park service and tile the for t so 80 what follows seems isble in order to explain the corn coni alons which congress neglects to shieo outs out ere are now nineteen national r s i with a total of square ilea there Is one group of twenty i national monuments incle Including ding the ro 0 new ones containing about 1000 aare miles these nat national lonal parks ni d monuments aro are under control of ie 0 national park service a bureau of ie e interior department there ate are seven national military nd d other parks such as Sill joh get eburg and Lincol ns birthplace nd ad ministered Inist ered by tile war department I 1 aich also controls two nai national lonal mon ments big hole battlefield and a brillo there are the national forests ests with a approximate area of eres under the charge of the forest fores t mice a bureau of the department f agriculture there Is a group of levell national monuments containing ilo 10 square miles in charge of the for foi st service e na national parks and the national crests f 0 re 8 is a are re the exact opposite 0 of each other iother the national parks are wilderness wilder der erless ness are areas as of majestic beauty set aside toy fo r purely recreational purposes pub public ic playgrounds for the people thol the rational national forests are industrial and commercial eOra mercial purely areas set apart for scientific lumbering for a profit eind to grazing for a profit i some da day Y it is hoped congress will straighter out the ole tangle by put the e natio national lial military and other Ps parks rna and all iho nat national lobal jonii 1 in charge of the natio aBl park I 1 service rolce leaving the national fo forests 10 to the e f forest rest service president 11 arding created refi fu wifod national monument ly by ja matlon march 2 under the act ol of 1000 for the L ot of american and dr hubert work t the he new secret secretary ry of tile the inter interior orilas has noy tak over the area I 1 in n thi the bairle name of the goe government Irli crit Is th I 1 indian ddlan equivalent for deserted ley and contains about dicres i the e are mclver and the twin tow s pictured f herewith can be corn com ai y reached 6 by Y auto automobile mobil e dr di Q ivilue alte r fewkes Few e kea head of lof tho the bureni ethnology of the S ail rc recommended the aroa area to the Pre Adent for a national bonu w D doctor octor fewkes says of the area and it its prehistoric relics contains three coups groups VI structures square the first grou group 0 c called a the I 1 finest fl toiv tower r cluster some of the grou ern 8 of the abw ar aln athe t ile most st picturesque of if thern them pi ng I 1 Hoven len weep eap castle tile the walls 80 of A t ach Q are re over fl fifty tty feet high grou armp D lies borth three miles to the ton I 1 in D nolly canyon and contains t of 0 the tao inott fit re in e prehlad gasn 47 in JI the united St states ittes wo 7 r 5 51 aw C N 4 n M Z the third group situated on oil cajon mesa Is more difficult to reach the ruins in tile the square tower can yon von may be described somewhat as follows ruins which have indications of circular lilves with mural pilasters pi lasters and bacq banquettes banquet bettes tes I 1 and closely approximated surrounding rooms to this class belongs hoven weep castle the Hoven weep pueblo and tile the so called unit type house the last named belonging t to 0 tile the simplest form of the alie pure type second there are the alie ruins the in main ain feature of which Is the absence of a circular kiva the twin towers belong to this second or great house type the largest of the ruins in this canyon Is Hoven weep house situated at the head of tile the south fork although ninny many of its walls have fallen a semicircular aim a thoro there still great house with high walls walla conspicuous distance the ruin Is a for some pueblo of rectangular form belonging circular depressions to the pure type showing imbedded embedded bedded identified ns as kisag Im pres in collections of square and rectangular buildings and massive walled rooms on the south side the stand standing ing remains of a conspicuous walls walla ore are enill multi ti cil chambered anibe red D shaped tower like Hoven weep Hoven weep castle castl e house has circular kivas compactly N rooms arranged Im bedded in rectangular indicating tile the about them the ina massive nive puro pure t type N pe of pueblo and great towers semicircular walled combined with square houses are that it Is and kivas indicating rooms eastern an distinguished by two sections wl which jell united till and A n western iio tho the alape of tile the let part pact to the whole F ter L buildings the most impressive among are the canyon square sequan 3 tower in tile the on TW twin ln tow towers th they ey stand on a rock tilde side of tile the canyon south a the adjoining from isolated by a cleft towers lia having ving cuffs cilot the larger of the the sma smaller lier willie while an oval ground plan to ls horseshoe shaped unit type as the pueblo known most moat late interesting resting house bouse I 1 la s one ofie of the it Is situated the Hoven weep in canyon of tile the e edge dge tile the very on whore where tar far from not fork of the north furm form ot simplest it Is the it at begins type pure of a pueblo prehistoric placed laced circular centrally central of bf a madeep made up ceremonial room be may towers tile the in holly canyon this i foot rl the lie towers in approached approach lad on some Z of the finest show how canyon to be found u n 1 on the reservation masonry i afi flee finest t of them holly of the e tt one on rock its tip bulit built on a great tower level with w etli the meic rising to h height then there la Is holly house which appears to have been a pueblo of rectangular form these are but it a f few ew of the historical structures that await the pleasure of the tourist Ilo however weyer they are typical of the splendid relies that pre to be found in the hoven weep monument palm canyon rational national monument was created by act of conj congress ress with two strings tied to it the act authorizes the secretary of the interior to set aside 1000 1600 acres in the county of riverside california provided that before such reservation and dedication its as herein authorized shall become effective the consent and relinquish of the agua ballente Cal lente band of indians shall first arst be obtained do covering verIng its right title and interest in and to the lands herein described and pay ment to the basis at a price capita band on a per when there shall bo be to be agreed upon donated for such purposes to the secretary of the interior a fund in an amount to be fixed and determined by him as sufficient tent to compensate the indians the provision verbatim et certainly means that tile tho literatim litera tim it must raise the money to promoters for the land it apparently also alo pay means that the indians indiana shall willingly sell anyway sam going anything it la Is said that a purchase to pay fund hits has been or will be raised the indians lie however wever are re reported ported to tie ho unwilling toselli to lu ssell anyway the arga area set aside arld 3 with its strings consists of three canyons with their desert approaches andreas murray I 1 and palm the center of things Is the village of palm i which Is a nourishing flourishing winter and spring resort in our araby of the colorado desert of southern califor tho the purpose of the monument la Is of a native to io preserve floe fine gro growths american palm the washingtonian filla era most impressive of the Palm canyon three Is a pass rather than a canyon with creek about ten miles long flowing through lt it tha th palms are in fifty feet w la Is their average w height with h here ere and there one reaching 70 feet andreas c anyon also has its stream find and its palms paling with their murray canyon petticoats picturesque lies between the other oilier two and lv Is much like them the colorado desert in early spring like the well here blos bloess solons rose only more so iii fa sanit sand verbena desert gold lupine and primrose prim roBe keep Is the proper doff afif tile the desert alya |
