Show 31 VC ej ff r A i 0 f 10 11 ilk q N r I 1 P r ar JQ 5 0 V I 1 WIN UM aa kt 4 ik nal L rit 0 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN bherman alt national monuments a hu hundred dred years ra from now will be numbered among ing tile the priceless possessions of tho american people at present I 1 P they are pretty much neglected both K I 1 ia by the federal government and by the people there anro 30 or more in charge of the interior department and congress gives the national park service but to care for or all of a VISIt visitors Drs to the 18 where records were kept inhered but last season um bill that Is bese buse the people know knon almost nothing bathing about the ff lonal monuments some day alik these se national Jimim rots will be anade easily accessible and fixed then the people will flock to them vor for nil all of jno m are well worth seeing anil and many W C t them are ws ong the wonders of the world alth ith national parks and national forests and donal monuments etc etc the public Is nat rally ily mixed up on what heres beres tho the right tint that ethere here are 19 national parks each established by parate act of congress and till ill in charge of the emal park service of the interior department inia rily they contain scenic features of national por wr tance tince though two ilot hot springs in ark arkansas ansas 4 in okeal oklahoma ionia are medicinal they are at as far as possible in their original wild state ED dare 1 are wild life sanctuaries they are protected in ast dst commercialism familiar names in the na nil inal park system are yellowstone yosemite ky mountain and grand canyon lafayette the const coast of calne Is tile the only scenic national t k east of the mississippi congress will not ranse land for national park purposes and tiie the I 1 public lands are in tile tho west lafayette was dented to the nation by public spirited citizens here jre an six national military parks getty 8 canil vicksburg tire are familiar examples under atrol 1 of the war department there are approximately national forests der control of tile tho forest service of the depart bt of they were established for stifle lumbering and for grazing and were 6 purely commercial propositions the cultural department however in its ita persistent orasto is to get control of the national parks has set features in many national forests competition tOm Petition with the national parks N aw w we e come to the national monuments nn na 41 1 landmarks would be a more fitting design previous to 1000 tile the united states had provision for the establishment of national QuIne ii public insistence became so BO great the B protection of natural wonders from vandal that U in low it the ie act for the preservation ot of an antiquities was passed by congress ct provides for the punishment of vandall 1 fc permits to excavate and collect see sec 42 2 ot of the net act reads ends att 1 11 president ident of the united slates states Is hereby 1 sa in his hia discretion to declare by public f on historic alc landmarks historic and pre rin ItIc tures tl reB and other objects of historic or 11 ta ed interest that aro are situated altu atod upon the lands ahta or tont controlled rolled by thi tha government of the iv i to be national and may v lichi hi pt part hereof parcels or of land tho the limits ilir in all 1 cases shall be confined to the small email hbert patillo Pati 1110 blo with the proper care and manit r the t objects to be protected 41 er this net ct about 50 60 national monuments tire f about SO 30 tire are in charge of the park 11 service 0 o nd and about 15 under tinder control ai n lest 1 service alce the war department con W L exact act figures euras cannot be given as i tire fe constantly occurring lose controlled by the forest service the 18 olympus in washington which Is 13 altai of f forests and glaciers tind and the h it ile ol vinal elk bandelier Ban deller in new mex alex cent i r vast numbers era of prehistoric cilly 0 TO tat 8 and ls is presumably slated elated for 11 nn a ch park conors ors bryce ryce cunyon canyon in utah of tt J th tore mateis later is nn an eroded canyon of I 1 fiB NIP ii report of director stephen T blabber te bark alco to thu the secre secretory turY of the at r in addition to devils tower EM el BC j ii eia id petrified rifled forest of which nore are D later iter edil illg g as the e list of 0 the national menu monuments ments 1 aratti chairge K they have been by this TB tbt 11 S L montezuma castle arizona 1908 1006 cliff dwelling acres chaco canyon now new mexico 1907 numerous bueb los and cliff dwellings acres navajo arizona 1909 prehistoric pueblos and cliff dwellings 60 acres Hoven weep utah colorado 1922 prehistoric tow ere pueblos and cliff dwellings acres tumacacori arizona 1908 ruin ot of seventeenth century franciscan mission 10 acres gran quivira Qu ivira new mexico 1909 2909 ancient pueblo and early Sp spanish antall mission acres W fl grande rande arizona prehistoric relic acres lucca buce house colorado 1919 prehistoric relic 10 acres aztec ruin new mexico 1823 1923 prehistoric pueblo of COO rooms A 6 acres pipe spring arizona 1923 old atone fort and spring of pioneer days 40 acres melr woods california 1908 line redwood grove acres pinnacles california 1308 many spire like rock formations to 1000 1 feet high 2653 acres acrea natural bridges utah 1908 three very larse large natural bridges 2740 aares rainbow bridge utah 1910 height SOS teat foot spa span n feet acres acrea mika batka alaska 1910 park of historic association 16 fine totem poles 67 wres colorado colorado 1911 1011 wonderful example of tro erosion eton many loty lofty monoliths acres papago saguaro sakutaro SaKu aro arizona 1914 characteristic desert flora and an d many pictography pictographs 1940 acres lewla lewis and clark dark Cavern montana 1908 immense limestone cave acres shoshone shoshona cavern Wy wyoming orning 1909 large limestone cave acres dinosaur utah 1915 deposits of jt sell remains 80 90 acres fossil ayad south dakota 1922 deposits of plant fossils acres capulin mountain new mexico 1916 cinder cone of oc geologically ecologically recent formation acres kalmal Ala alaska skit 1918 volcanic anlo phenomena including valley of ten thousand smokes 1940 acres verendrye Voren Veren drye north dakota 1817 1917 includes crow high butte from which the famous french ex clorer first saw trans missoura territory acres scotts bluff nebraska 1919 point of hist orlo interest in winning winnin of the west 2063 2053 acres pages of interesting matter could be written about national monuments take for example those of arizona new mexico and colorado they Ulu illustrate strate the history of tho the southwest froin ohp tit prehistoric times of tile the allt dwellers down throw through li the many years of if frantic searching for gold by tile he spanish soldiers Eold Fol lers diers und tile the colonizing and by the spanish priests cortez conquered mexico for spain in 1510 9 21 it was soon looted the Span lara then turned his search for gold toward ieru velch Is enother nother li story und and toward the lie unexplored wilderness to the north the air was full of northern treasure myths el BI dorado tile the glided gilded man ann and n whole people clothed in gold the seven beven cities of cibola with their golden domes doines Ou IvIra the city of gold side by side bide soldier anil and priest invaded tile the tic desert sert rI each leli despised the other ench used the other coronados Coron ados expedition from mexico in IMO 1540 that penetrated as far as kan earu w Is one 0 of th the 0 most romantic lo in nil all history gran rin was once tile the nourishing pueblo city of believed to he be by the sinio lords it was discovered in 1581 by banchek de Cham scado francisco de founded tile the mission in 1028 the apaches wiped indent ancient pueblo held about it out about 1070 1670 the tile the great stone chiun h was built in 1011 both still in i tills ills ghost city D or the lony ago castle Is une one of if the relles relics of the he pr hla people called cliff dwellers and ts Is ver very y old it Is it a communal house of 20 2 1 rooms built in n shallow cave in the face fa ce of orn 0 lofty ellar casa ansa grande great house Is u prehistoric mystery it wua was already a ruin when fray discovered it in it is s a large building of a natural concrete culled called cu leche smoothly plastered within it stands in a large compound of outlying buildings bul laings enclosed in a rectangular rec U r wall the nation by aztec ruin was presented tt it american museum of the ba M archer natural history story it Is being extensively excavated excavate d restored centuries bea before ore columbus one of and civilization w waa all of prehistoric the ho richest centers river T ive r in n norths en valley iley of the AmIr tits 1 the va mexico there within i thin the radius of u H 1111 new earth and alln n stone stoa mark mile vast M 0 tilt mir of nearly hourly community dwell inza in ill its original contil coall tion the aztec itula itself was as 41 i stately sandstone structure tum by fret feet three stories high and built around a ur court the specimens already covered e r 0 d constitute probably tile most io t co in p I 1 I 1 e t 0 e collection representative of a prehistoric north american culture cul turo mount int n big alaskan volcano olvino blew off 1 ita Is head in 1012 covered a vast mist pe nin sula with alth sing bins anil and tile tho till oil over ocr tile 1 ho world orail with alth dust tile tho explosion illse also create rented d tile tho valloy of ten tell Sino SIlio koa hes ono one of tho the gondera ot of tile tho world orld it la is llo ily volcanic ground by als and pitted by ly millions ot or of every huo 1110 blitch bubblo bubble und tind belch aul send up st and smoke anti and so BO it ROOS goes r each rill nn t 11 I 1 oil 0 n n 1 monument ilas hns its on story and now new national tire being ett co anted ono olio of 0 the no noa NY est Is 18 carlsbad co cam in now new mexico it ling has been only partly explored red but la Is still ted by experts expert 4 fur far t to SUP puss pass mammoth ai ninoth cave in ill size and in ang and variety of 0 decoration the tha latest addition to tit tha list of la Is the C centera raters of tile tho moon aloon in idaho chera 40 square miles have been set bet aside by area ident dent coolidge I 1 it t la Is lava wonderland with cones tun tunnels ca ves and nil all sorts sorta ot of twisted and contorted cc forms of barden hardened it volcanic oi flow of the national monuments chosen lor for illustration bryco bryce canyon hits just been given national park honors A bill tor for its creation ia as tile the utah notional park was passed in the closing hours of the last session cession of congress its feature Is a box canyon three miles long and two miles wide cut 1000 feet into tile tho plateau of south eastern utah there Is a wonderful variety 0 of ero siona form which are painted in every color and tint of tit tho spectrum reds pinks creams tons lavenders lavendera lav enders purples blues greens chocolates chocol ittes and whites it takes high agh rank among latorra nn tiri wonders eTs the net act pro provides Yides that before bryco canyon becomes utah national park till all lands in the area must bo conveyed to tile the united states utah and the union pacific own acres the petrified for forest asi contains tile the most moat wonderful collection of pe petrified trifled treed in tile the world these trees lie in three groups which really arbnot are not forests at till all tor for most of the trunks were wash washed to their present positions on tin an eroded plain by prehistoric floods from forests for far away many linny of tho the trunks exceed feet in length one log ill feet long bridges a canyon cannon 45 feet wide the state of of the wood almost places it among tile the precious stones not only are chat bedony opals and agates on view but oven even jasper and onyx the devils dells tower Is an extraordinary mass of igneous rock and Is one of the most conspicuous features fea turea of if the black bills region of wyoming it has been n landmark from prehistoric times first there la 14 lie level plain then it a rounded wooded hill aco feet high and on top of that the tower GOO CM feet high and a mile in cincu circumference inference its sides aldea are arc fluted by great columns which stand perpendicular di cular except where they flare out at the hoso base ind and in 11 at the top cheso co column luning about 0 feet in diameter are mostly pentagonal but some borne are four sided and some gome sex elded I 1 kl morro national monument Is a landmark to thrill it good american two enormous connected rocks of vurl varl colored eroded sandstone mand stone rise abruptly from the arid plain one suggests it a castle fini nd Is called el EI morro the other Is called inscription rock because it 1 I bears priceless historical re records ads for nearly four centuries ago these walls walla echoed tile the eltink chink of the steel harness of Conquist ind ores and the prayers of franciscan martyrs there and shallow cave and soldier was as a spring there it and priest turned u aside to from the old zuni trall trail ani and there they cut their names and tho the why and wherefore of their comings and goings an inscription perhaps ns as important ns its nav la Is this cut by don juan de onate 14 years before ille he pilgrims landed on plymouth tb rock paso por aqui anul do de adelan tUdD don juan do de onate del do de la roar mar del our eur a 16 26 el april del 1606 1 passed by liere here the provincial chief don juan de onate groin born the discovery of tile the south pt on the of 0 april 1608 1606 this alil 4 approximately fixes the date of tile the cound ing of sunta santa fe ns its it Is known onate fixed hla his capital there upon its ills return from the gulf of california scarcely less interesting Is the inscription herewith reproduced hy don dan diego de varga avata lujan ponce police de leon 1 I aqui fataba 01 1 geal do da as vargas claten con quisto aquisto a nestra fe y la real corona todo toda a el nueva mexico a su costa coata ano de 1692 hera was the general dpn diego de vargas who conquered conque reil to our holy faith alth ind the royal crown all new kew mexico at hl his own expense ex year of 1692 tile tha indians indiana hud had risen against the spaniards in santa V pe e in massacred them thein und driven them out and destroyed as far as possible poss ible all traces of civilization and christianity for twelve years denra they enjoyed ancient independence it was wa elego diego de vargas who the region la there are mora mom than GO 50 of these inscriptions they cont itin ananies great in those liose times 2 cleto wilo who escorted the first missionaries to zuni in 1620 lujan who avenged the murder murde of fray fral francisco Let raido in 1032 archuleta urtha Url harrl and so ou oil do down into the first alf of the eighteenth century where jin n all the world Is 1 bere it nwe mole ing 1 t relic than inscription |