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Show "AH Year National Park" an Oddity in them and probably do a number of other things which this nation does not permit in national parks, including includ-ing using the streams for Irrigation. Leaving the reservation the proposed pro-posed All Year National park jumps across 15 miles of desert to include a small area of wonderfully picturesque bad lands known as the Mai' Pais lava beds. Then It jumps again, this time across 35 miles of desert, to Include an area of white gypsum sand which the winds blow back and forth, heaping heap-ing them into mighty dunes and- scooping scoop-ing deep valleys. This region Is known locally as the White Sands of Otero county. Finally the proposed All Year National Na-tional park takes still another jump across the desert, this time covering 70 miles, to gather In the "Elephant Butte lake and all the lands appertaining apper-taining thereto acquired or set apart as the site of the Elephant Butte reservoir." res-ervoir." The people have not fought reservoir reser-voir building In national parks for two years to be willing now to throw away the fruits of their victories by dragging drag-ging in one already made. POSSIBLY the oddest national park bill ever offered in congress is that creating and defining the All Year National park In southern New Mexico. The proposed park Is to consist of an undetermined number of detached areas within and without the Mesca-lero Mesca-lero Indian reservation. Those within the reservation are to be chosen by the secretary of the interior and are not to exceed in the aggregate 2,000 acres, or a little more than three square miles. There may be six or seven of these little bits spotted through the reservation. The bill permits per-mits Indians to hunt and cut timber |