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Show GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IS ANOTHER ALPS Formed, in Dim Ages Before Man, by Shrinking of Earth's Skin. Titanic Crumbling of Overlapping Edge Carved Fantastically Afterwards by Glacier and Stream. Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who never heard of the Glacier Gla-cier National Park before this spring will visit It this summer. It has boon a National Park slnco 1910, but In a period of utter public Indifference Indiffer-ence to tho glories of American scenery, scen-ery, It has passed nlmost unnoticed. Now that America has suddenly become be-come awaro that sho possesses tho most superb accesslblo Bcenory In orId, Glacier Is destined to rapid ecognltlon as tho ono real Swltzor-and Swltzor-and of America. It Is In northwest-rn northwest-rn Montana, closo to tho Canadian order lino. Tho Park derives Its namo from Its 0 glaciers; but thero aro moro than 0 all told, if ono classes as glaciers nany Interesting snow patches of nly a few acres each, which, novcr-bcless. novcr-bcless. exhibit nil tho chamctcilsllC3 f true glaciers. Its scenery Is strlk- -Mv Alnlnft vof It nnPBanq In '!,'( ' uallty to a high degree In rugged-noss rugged-noss and sheer grandeur It probably surpasses the Alps, whllo geologically geological-ly It Is markedly different. It strongly differentiates nlso from other mountain scenery In Amorica. Ico clad Hnlnier, mpstcrlous Crater Lake, spouting Yollowstono, exquisite Yosemlto, beautiful Sequoia to each of theso and to all other of our National Na-tional Parks Glacier orrors a highly Individualized contrast. , Region of Remarkable Beauty To Ueflno Glacier National Park, Plcturo to yourself two approaching chains of vast tumbled mountains which pass tho Continental DIvIdo back and forth, botween them In n wormllko twlstlngs, which bear living Glaciers in every hollow of their loftiest loft-iest convolutions, and which break I precipitately thousands of feet to lower mountain masses, which, In their turn, bear innumerable lakes of unbellovablo calm, offspring ot tho glaciers abovo; theso lakes, in their turn, giving birth to roaring rivers of Icy water, leaping turbulontly from loel to level, carving Innumornblo sculptured gorges of grandeur and Indcsscrlbnblo beauty. Theso parallel mountain masses form a ccntrnl backbone for tho National Na-tional Park. Their western sides slopo from tho summit less precipitately. precipi-tately. Their eastern sides break nbrutply. It Is on tho cast that their scenic quality becomes titanic. To really comprehend tho personality person-ality of Glacier ono must glanco back for a moment Into tho geological past whon tho sea or great lakos rolled ovor what Is now the northwost of this continent. It wns water that deposited de-posited the stratified sediments that nro now theso rocks. Untold agos passed, and tho sea cr lako bottom, under tho urgo of terrific forces hidden in tho Interior of tho enrth, lifted, emerged, and bo-camo bo-camo land. Untold ages passed, nnd tho land hardened into rocks. And nil tho tlmo tho forces kept pressing together and upwnrd tho rocky crest of tho earth. For untold ages this , crust held safe. Result of Titanic Upheaval At last tho prossuro won. Tho rocks first yielded upwnrd In long Irregular Ir-regular wavollko folds. Gradually tho folds grow In slzo. Whon tho rocks could stand tho strain no longer, great cracks appeared, nnd ono brokon edgo tho western, was thrust upward and over tho other. Tho odgo that was thrust ovor tho othor was thousands of feet thick. Its crumbling formed tho mountains nnd tho precipices. When It settled tho western odgo of this break overlapped tho eastern odgo ten or fifteen miles. This thrusting of ono edge of tho burst and split contlnont over tho other odgo Is called faulting by geologists geol-ogists and this particular fault Is called tho Lowls Ovorthrust. It i tho Ovorthrust which gives tho peculiar pe-culiar character to this amazing coun try, that and tho inconceivably tumbled tum-bled character of tho vast rocky mass-ca mass-ca lying crumbling on its edges. Thus wns formed, In tho dim days before man, ffir tho pleaBuro of tho Amorlcan pcoplo of today, the Glaclor National Park. Today tho visitor finds this tho most wonderful combination of mountain moun-tain tops In Amorica, bounded by vor . tlca! walls somotimes 4oou feet high dlorsined by ranny glltonlnb glaciers 1 nnd by benutlful 'timbered slopes 'cat Ing down by graceful curves to th bottom of deep valloys. Scores 0 lakes aro unsurpassed In sheer boat ty by any oven of Italy and Swltzoi land. There aro moro than 250 lako In nil. How It Was Discovered Nor Is this scenic wondorlaii' merely a sample of tho neighborhood North of tho park tho Canadian moun tains rapidly loso their sconlc Intel est. South and west thoro Is lltth of greater Interest than the moun tains commonly crossed In a trans continental Journey. To tho cast Hoi tho plains. This region appears no to havo been visited by whlto mer boforo 1853, when A. W. Tlnkham a covernmont engineer exploring t routo for a Pacific railroad, ascended Nyack Creek by mistake nnd retraced his stops, when ho discovered tho Impracticability Im-practicability for rallrond purposes of tho country ho hnd penotrntcd. Tho next explorers wore a group of surveyors establishing tho Canadian Canadi-an boundary lino. This was In 1861. In 1890 copper oro was found nt tho head ot Quartz Creek nnd thero wns a rush of prospectors. Tho cast sldo ot tho Continental Divide, being part of the Blackfect Indian Reservation, was closed to prospoctors, nnd Congress Con-gress was Importuned for relief. In 1S9C this was purchased from tho Indians In-dians for 11,500,000, but not enough copper was found to pay for tho mining. min-ing. Thereafter it was vfsltcd only by big gamo hunters and occasional lovers of scenery. |