Show MAKING A NATIONAL NATION kb PARK persistency Pere latency and energy of one man lake region to saved craer creer Zo country antry I 1 one morning in the spring of 1866 a thirteen carold car old boy arrived ot at a school house in kansas after a n five mile walk across the prairie at noon after eating his lunch he picked up abo crumpled newspaper in which the lunch had been w rapped and in this read what purported to be a description of a wonderful 61 sunken lake in oregon it was a sensational largely imaginative inaccurate account but it A took such a stron strong g hold on this boy will G steel that two tuo years later he arrived in oregon in quest of this lake it aa a not until after nine years of questioning hn hovver hov eer that he lie at lat at a t met a man 0 ilo o had actually escen crater inke lake in 1885 lu he stood for tho the first time apua ib iti bild ild and romantic shore before leaving leaning it lie resolved to hae it made a cionni i park for ears cars ne tic spent motion mon time and energy to accomplish this he lie went to washington gain again and again in 1902 he triumphed and the crater lake region became a national park air mr steel has had an important place in the forest conservation movement in the northwest from rom its beginning and he commenced this agitation in for a short time in portland ore he published ft a kittle magazine called steel points he is the author of a book the mountains of oregon long out of print it tins he who on the top of M I 1 mount aunt hoo 3 on july 19 1894 organized the madamas Ma the now famous mountain club of the northwest mr steel was uns born in ohio in 1854 and is now living in part portland countr county country y life in ti america morica robert mckugo expressed the opinion in tho the li hearing caring of 0 a news reporter a 3 esterday that if the thle street commissioner would distribute the water now running in some SOMO of tha streets more evenly better crops of N weeds eeds might be raised next summer E A collett and A L mcmullin have inive purchased the chili parlor in the I basement of the miles block black and will be glad to see all their friends who appreciate good coffee chili etc |