Show I opal Park 8 d 0 1 j n ic k 1 1 4 rf 5 t h 7 t W t-W f J et V V T Wk Lo r r 1 l r T y 4 I w 1 t r r I By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN LACIER NATIONAL up next to tte the Canadian line lime In Montana l and anda a public playground of ot the first class cliss hud Its most successful sea sea- Hon soa la In 1023 1021 and will doubtless set seta a new record this year Glacier will come to Its own In the matter malter of ot ate at- at at nt e with the completion ot of Its toad Hoad across the Con Con- Divide over Logan Logun Pass now In the third year of ot construction by the lire national na nn park service Already the service is planning planning plan plan- ning for tor substantial extensions to present accommodations accommodations for tor visitors which will then be necessary necessary sary SOs Says Stephen T. T Mather director of ot the tho national notional park purk service In his hits 1023 1123 annual report to the secretary of ot the Interior I In common with the Uie majority of ot the other national na national na na- parka parks Glacier a experienced her moat successful success success- tul ful season enjoying V fore ore patronage than In any previous year having having- registered 1 In Inthe Inthe inthe the park a as ae compared with th t visitors In 1122 1912 This Is la only a forerunner of ot a tremendous Increase ss In travel that Is Ie certain to take place on the completion completion com com- of ot the Road now In It Its Ita third year of ot construction Motorists traveling the northern highways highway to Gl Glacier cler never have had a direct route rout across the Continental Divide this barrier requiring a detour of several hundred miles mil to the south Tho The noad Road crossing the Continental Dh Divide Ide through Logan Pass Pas will aside aalde from furnishing a direct means of at traversing the mountains mountain attract thousands of ot motorists motorist by Its Ita unsurpassed scenic qualities This is good goo d as ns far as ns It fl goes but the situation may be made mode by a more detailed explanation tion of ot Glaciers Glacier's hard luck In the matter of ot auto mobile highways An attendance of ot only for tor a first-class first national park like Glacier Is u n joke joke and and a n bad had one Hut But the reasons for tor this comparatively small attendance nce are easily found A few tew years tars ago the bulk of ot the tourist travel to to the national parks was by railroad Now the bulk of It is by private car cor The per Jr cent varies Contrasting examples x am pies Mountain In 1023 had private cars In which probably more wore than 80 per cent of its Us visitors traveled Glacier had hod J private ears cars not nut more than 50 I per er Mr cent of ot Its Us visitors arrived by private car This tells part of ot the story Rocky Mountain Mountain Moun Moon tain tats is of ot no ao higher class than Glacier end Is only about one quarter as ns large large square miles mills Inthe Inthe in inthe the one and 1539 1530 In the other other but but Hock Rocky Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- tain Is ill the most easily accessible by automobile from the tile geographical and population center of ot the country of ot all the 19 18 national parks Another factor in fa the attendance comparison between be he tween Rocky Kooky Mountain l and Glacier Glacer is this l Each uch park bus line an Independent cast ast and west entrance on either side of the Continental l Divide each entrance en n trance taking care of separate and distinct lines of ot automobile l tourist travel tru In Rocky Hocky Mountain 1 the east and aMI andest west est entrances are Estes Park and Grand Orand Lake In Glacier thE they are Glacier Park lark and Hel 1111 ton In Hock Rocky Mountain the Fall River Ulver Hood crosses the Continental nl lIl connects Estes Park end and Grand Lake and makes possible through raffle which otherwise would be impossible In Glacier tourist travel from both 1011 the east Eust and west halts at the Continental DIvide The Great Northern which serves Glacier and runs along the south line of ot the park ameliorates the situation b by maintaining dull dully daily shipments of ot motor cars bi t two wo entrances Unless motorists take advantage of ot this rail rull shipment they hu hun have e to make a 1 wide detour either elthEr through Montana as as fur ur south as us Helena or lit or through Canada lla What the Full Fall River Ulver Rand Hood does dols for Rocky Hocky Moun Mountain to tain In the Houd will de do for fur Glacier Here lIere Is what the thi 1023 reports says SUS of ot the progress of ot the w work ork Work on the second section of ot the on the west side aide was wa begun and about six all miles extending from the end nd of ot the tIe first nut section sec sea Lion tion at the head of Lake McDonald up McDonald Creek to above Avalanche Creek will be boe finished this tan tall 1 1929 1121 JI Also Abo a contract has hu been let for tor forthe the th construction of ot eight or nine mlle miles on the east eastside side aide Including the construction of a bridge across the St St. Mary River extending from St. St Mary tary Chalet along the north shore of ot St Bt Mary Lake toward Go do- Sun Ing ing to the Chalet With construction underway under underway underway way on both sides sidell of ot the Continental DIvide the Road Hoad can be pushed with more speed to completion And here Is n a glimpse Into the future that promIses promises prom prom- all nil kinds of ot things for Glacier It will be only a n short before tho Babb International Boundary Road noad Is improved This This road rond runs through the et Indian reservation adjoining adjoin ing lug Glacier on U the e cast east und and will connect with the Canadian National parks highway system The fhe National Park to lark to Highway which meets co-meets all tl tho 9 western national parks Is In full tull operation and getting better Er e every season Benson The WIn Hanff-WIn- Win Highway across the Canadian opened last year makes direct connection with tho the National Park to Park to Highway at Spokane Wash With the Babb international Boundary Bond noad and the Road Hond completed Glacier will of of- for ter much to automobile tourists An Any car cor owner In to Inthe Inthe the United States or Canada can cun easily reach Glacier Gla Gln- cler cier either to stay or or go OJ oa The entire Scenic 11 West est a and Canadian will be open to him When Glacier comes to Its own Its attendance will wilt jump up amazingly And what It gains It will keep kep for lor Its visitors have a habit of ot going back year after year eur Glacier has hns Its devotees otres Just just ns liS have Rocky Hocky Mountain 11 it Colorado and Yosemite In California Yellowstone oldest oilIest biggest anI and most famous of ot all our 10 national parks has been blen lacking hacking in this to date Take Mary lIar nature nature lover outdoor outdoor out out- door woman omon novelist 10 and nature writer she's writer she's tin tan example She he has hus b been n much In GIll Glacier ir And hero Is the tile way Glacier got her lIer Her lice enthusiasm Induced her to write nn an Appreciation of Glacier for publicity purposes And heres here's what she says In part There are no Keep Deep Off orr the th Grass signs In tn Gla Gla- cler National Park It la le the wildest t part of ot Amer ica It Is perhaps the most unique of ot all allour allour allour our parks parka as ea It Is undoubtedly the most cent Here the Rocky Mountains run northwest north west and southeast and In the glacier carved carved ba basins basins ba sins are great spaces space cool shadowy depth depths In which lie blue lakes sides mountain threaded with white where from tram some hidden lake or glacier cler far tar above the overflow falls talla a thousand feet teet or more and over all the great silence of the Hockin Here lIere Is the last home of ot a vanishing race the the Indians Here Is the last stand of the Rocky hooky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Moun Moun- Mountain tain goat here are elk deer black and grizzly bears beara and mountain lions Here are trails that follow tollow the old game trails along the mountain mountainside side aide here are meadows of ot June roses forget me not larkspur and Indian paintbrush growing be beside be side aIde glaciers and trails of ot a beauty to tomake tomake tomake make you gasp Rasp Hut Dut there Is la no voice In all the world so ao Insistent to me as the wordless wordle call all nt of th these mountains I shall go back Those who go once always hope to go back The lure of ot the great free tree spaces Is In their blood One con can Imagine without the slightest difficulty a throng of devotees of ot other national parks surrounding sur sar rounding Mrs Rinehart hauling bawling her out out out-In In perfectly per polite language of ot course course and and asking In unison on How low 1101 do you get that way Mary And the tho babel sifted out Interpreted and reduced to prosaic utterance would contain these statements state state- agents ments Theros Thero's nothing In Glacier wilder than are aro in lit other parks Glacier Isn't perhaps the most unique nor Is Is It undoubtedly the most nt Other parks have glacier carved basins lakes hates g glaciers a dors falls wild told animals and flowers Irs Yellowstone beats all nil the parks parks except possibly Mount McKinley for for wild animal life Rocky Hocky Mountain probably has hils more mountain sheep I than Glacier Mount Rainier U is the chum hum plon Wild Flower Park lark The are a liability rather than on an asset Inasmuch as us they slaughter slaught r relentlessly the park game gume that strays stra's into their reservation reser the big game on the east ast eastside eastside side of the Continental C Divide Is gradually being wiped ed out Glaciers Glacier's highest mountain Mount Cleveland Cle is only 1043 fe feet t Rocky Hocky Mountain has lias 43 between and U. U 5 feet Getting down to the really unique features of ot the Notional National park system this Is hi what we e find The Tho ne contains more mare and greater geysers than all the rest of ot the world tog together ther 31 10 Mount o u n t peak single S system e m with 23 28 living gin glaciers glacier cieri hn has no equal Crater Luke Lake occupies occupies l' l pies Jiles the hol hole left after n 1 large largs volcano had slipped back 1 Into n to ear earths earth's t h s t interior n t e r lor through Its own rim It is the deepest and bluest accessible lake lakeIn lakeIn lakein In the world The Sequoia contains con c more than a Il million mil mil- lion Big Trees 12 12 of ot which are more than In diameter diameter eter some are more than then 30 feet fret In diameter diameter eter and are alI the larg largest est eat and oldest living things of ot earth tarth Hawaii National Park Pork contains the largest larg est living volcano In 10 Inthe inthe the world M 1 a u n una n aLon a aLoa Loa Lon and continuously n a active c t tI i v ve e for tor a century with Iti Its Lake Lake- of of t FIre Fire which draws visitors visitors visitors' from all the world Mount McKinley Is scenically the worlds world's mountain u n t a In since It rises uses more than feet teet above sea level le and feet teet above Its Its' surrounding sur sur- rounding valleys Mesa l Verde contains contains con contains con con- the most notable notable not not- able I and nd best preservEd preserved pre pro served prehistoric cliff clift i dwellings In the Unit Unit- Uniti i I ed cd States Statu If It not In Inthe the world f e t Al ar 0 Grand r an dOn Canyon n yon T earths earth's largest and noblest example of ot ote e r 0 s I 3 0 gorgeously carved d and colored Is one of ot the natural wonders of ot the world Curiously enough Mrs 1 Rinehart omitted mention of ot the one feature that in the a of ot many does docs entitle Glacier to a place among amon the unique national parks parks Its its Lewis and the tha gorgeous coloration of ot its mountains Zion No- No National Park lark in Utah Bryce Canyon in Utah likely to be made the Utah National Park lark and Grand Can Canyon Canoll on probably surpass Glacier GInder In coloration but their colors are fre down In the depths while Glaciers Glacier's Glaciers Glacier's Gla Gla- ciers cier's are flung up Into the sky Now dont don't be scared by the Lewis Heres Here's briefly what the geologists mean menn by the term terra The rock nearest rest the center of ot th the tho earth tarth Is called and the geologists know very lit little little lit lit- tle tie about It The next oldest strata are the Algon Algon- klan which were laid as us an on ocean bottom sediment emit sedi ment went something like years ago ngo It 1 Is s this group that are exposed In Glacier nowhere in the world are they displayed In la such area profusion anti an variety and In such magnificence cence of ot coloring These rocks lIe Ho in tout fou col differently ored strata strato all of which the Glacier r visitor maysee may mayse maysee see se for himself The lowest Is the Altyn limestone about 1000 feet teet thick It weathers a n pale bill baff There are whole yellow ellow mountains of ot this on th the e eastern astern edge ede of Glacier Next Nest above lies a II stratum of ot argillite or green shale hol about S. feet teet thick It weathers every possible e shade of ot dull green Next above that lie aims t 2200 OO fret feet of Grinnell argillite or red shale I It weathers every possible shade of ot deep red and pu pur pur- r pie On top Is about feet teet of ot limestone graj gral and running In places to yellow Horizontally through the middle of ot this limestone Is a broad dark band called the diorite Intrusion Now wizen when hn these brilliantly colored strata were aver thrust up from the tho bottom of ot the sea they were a practically level Then there came a t c c squeeze The fhe strata yielded In long irregular r like wavelike folds foldi Finally they and antI then sp broke broke- One broken edge the western was thrust upward and aid over the oth other r This western EsterI edge I Iwas was thousands of fret feet thick It overlapped tit the e eastern edge dge ten to fifteen miles This Is the Lewis Range It Is this o that accounts for the Inconceivably ably tumbled character of ot the vast rocky masses males There a Is II a n sag where the park lies A horizontal line lira drawn n straight across Glacier would pass through h the bottom of lit the Altyn AUn limestone on the east an and d west boundaries In the middle of ot the par park k through h the t p of ot the limestone It would woul d cut diagonally through the green and red sl stale ales lEs lE's lEson s on both sides of ot the Continental Divide The uninformed tourist doubtless says IIO'S to h. h tu hu self as be heads bends the flivver west Throe Three fine line na n national parks In a row row Rocky Mountain Yellowstone Yellow stone and und Glacier All three In the Hockles andon and al on the Continental Divide Probably all mud much h alike See one oae and Ive I've seen sn them all That shows show the necessity It of the campaign of ot edv ed- that the federal government go and the National N Na Parks association and aud many out out door ot door o or organizations t- t ore are waging to get the American pe peo people l' l o- o pie to see their national parks with understand lag Ing as os well as emotionally For Hocky Mountain Yellowstone and und Glue Gluch are essentially st different Rocky Mountain Is sol soli 14 d granite grantee a most astonishing aggregation of loft lott lofty y peaks nod and beautiful valleys perched on the Hie to toof toof top p of the Continental Divide 01 Yellowstone one Is oi volcanic with volcanic activities everywhere c In evidence t Glacier Glader Is sedimentary rock twisted and jumbled and gorgeously colored Congress has Just passed pl nn an act oct authorizing the making of ot a R budget budet for tor road building g purposes In is' is I tho the parks carrying a |