Show it G lV t Park Y- Y 7 L 7 E I I 4 tra r M k x S. S r ttY Sr i hub VT I III Ill h y M 11 H h R ot S Jf 1 4 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN LACIER NATIONAL PARK up next to the lIne In Montana and anda a public playground of the first class had Its most successful season season sea sea- son to la 1923 and vf doubtless set seta a new record this yeah ear GlacIer will come to Its own In the matter o attendance attendance at- at with the completion of lIf Its Road across the tJ-e Continental Continental Con Con- DIvide over Logan Pass now In the third year of construction by the na- na park service Already the service Is planning planning plan plan- ning for substantial extensions to present accommodations accommodations for visitors which then be nary sary Says Sa-s Stephen T T. M Mather ther director of the tIlO national park service sef In hl his l 1023 n nual report to the secretary of the Interior t f In common with the majority of the other national national na- na parks GlacIer experienced her most successful successful success success- ful season enjoying more patronage than In any prevIous year visitors having registered In Inthe inthe the park as compared with visitors In 1922 This Is only a forerunner of a tremendous In increase rease In travel that Is certaIn to take place on the completion com com- ot of the Road now to In Its third year ot of construction Motorists traveling the northern highways to Glacier never have had a direct route across the Continental DivIde this barrier requiring a detour ot of several hundred miles to the south The Road crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass will aside from furnishing a direct means ot of traversIng the mountains attract thousands ot of motorists by Its unsurpassed scenic qualities This Is good as far as It goes but the sItuation may may be made plainer by a more detailed of Glaciers Glacier's hard luck In the matter of automobile automobile auto auto- mobile highways An attendance of only for tor a first class national park like Glacier Is a and joke a bad one But the reasons for this comparatively small attendance are easily found A few y years ars ago the bulk of the tourist travel to the national parks was by railroad Now the bulk of It Is by private car The per cent varies Contrasting examples Rocky Mountain In 1323 had private cars In which probably more than SO 80 per cent of Its visitors traveled Glacier had private cars not more than 50 per cent of Its visitors arrived by private car This tells part par of the story Rocky Mountain Mountain Moun- Moun tain Is of no higher cla class s than GlacIer and Is only About one Cine Quarter ns as square miles In Inthe Inthe the one and 1530 In the but other Rocky ro Molin tain Is the most easily accessIble by automobile from t the e geographical and population center of the country of all the 10 national parks Another factor in Inthe the attendance comparIson between he be- tween Rocky Mountain and Glacier GInder Is this Each park has an Independent east and west entrance on either side of the Continental Contine-a tal DivIde each entrance en- en trance taking tare of separate and distinct lInes of e automobile tourist travel In Rock Rocky Moun Mountain the tho east and west Estes Park and Grand Lake In Glacier r the they are Glacier Park and n Belton Bel- Bel l- l ton In Rocky Mountain the Tall Full River myer Road crosses rosses the Continental Divide connects Estes Est s sPark Park and Grand Orand Lake and makes possible through traffic which otherwise would lie be impossible In Glacier automobile tourist travel el from both the east and west halts at the Continental Divide The Great Northern which serves Glacier and runs along the south lIne ot of the park the situation by maintaining dally shipments of motor cars between the two entrances Unless motorists ts take advantage of this rail mil shipment they have to make a wide wille detour either through Montana as far south as or Helena through Canada Canalla What the Fall River m Road does for Rocky Moun Moun- tarn the Road will do for Glacier here lIere Is what the 1023 reports says of the progress of the work Work on the second section of the tain Road on the west side was wall begun and about six miles I extending from the end of the first section sec sec- tion At the head ot of Lake McDonald up McDonald Creek to above Avalanche nc u CreE Cre L be this thle fall 1923 Also AIRo a contract has been l let t for tor the construction of eIght or nine milEs milE's on th the eastside east i 1 iside side Including the construction of A A. bridge across the St. St Mary River extendIng from St. St Mary Chalet along thE north shore ot of St St. Mary Lake toward Go- Go the Sun Chalet With construction underway under way vay on both sides ot of the Continental DivIde the Road cnn can be pushed with more speed to completion And here Js is a glImpse Into the future that promIses promises prom prom- all kinds of things for Glacier It will be oily a short time before the Babb International Boundary Road noad Is improved This road runs through the Indian reservation n adjoin adjoin- adjoinIng lag Ing Gl Glacier cIer on the east and wIll connect with the Canadian National parks parl s highway system The National which connects Park to Park to Park Highway all the western national parks is In full operation and getting better ever every season The Win Banff Highway across the CanadIan opened last year makes direct connection with the National Park to Highway at Spokane Wash Nash With the International Babb-International Road and the Road completed Glacier will offer offer of- of fer much to automobile tourists Any car owner inthe In Inthe the United States can easily reach Gla- Gla Glacier cler cier either to stay or go as 01 The entIre Scenic West Americas and Canadian will be open to him When Glacier comes to Its own Its attendance will jump up amazingly And what It gains it will keep for Its visitors have a habIt of going back year after year Glacier has Its devotees just as have Rocky Mountain to 11 Colorado and Yosemite In CalIfornia Yellowstone oldest biggest and ana most famous of nIl all our 10 national parks has bas been lacking In this to date Take Mary Roberts nature Rinehart-nature lover outdoor outdoor out out- door woman Novelist and nature she's writer an example She has been much In GlacIer And here Is the way Glacier got her Her enthusiasm Induced her to write nn an Appreciation of GlacIer for publicIty purposes And heres here's what she says sas In part There are no Keep Off art the Grass signs In Glacier Glacier Gla- Gla cier National Park It Is the wildest part ot of Amer- Amer Ica It Is perhaps the most unique ot of all allour allour our parks as It Is undoubtedly the most cent Here the Rocky MountaIns run northwest northwest north north- west and southeast and In the carved glacier basins basins ba- ba sins ar art great spaces cool shadowy depths In which lie blue lakes sIdes mountain threaded with white wh where re from some hidden lake or or glacier tar far 1 above the overflow falls a thousand feet teet or more and I nd over all the great silence ot of the Here Is the last home ot of a a. vanIshing race the IndIans Here Is the last stand ot of th the Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Mountain Mountain Moun- Moun tain goat here are elk deer black and grIzzly bears and mountain lions Here are trails that toll follow ow the old game trails along the mountaIn mountainside side here are meadows ot of June roses me forget note nok larkspur and Indian paIntbrush growing beside beside be- be side glaciers snowfields and trails ot of a beauty tomake to tomako make mako you gasp asp But there thero Is no voIce In all the world so InsIstent to me mc as the wordless call of these mountaIns I shall go back Those who go once always hope to so go back The lure ot of the great tree free spaces is 19 In their blood One cnn can imagine without the slightest a throng of devotees of other rational parks s stir sur- roun rounding ng Mrs Rinehart bawling her out out-In perfectly per per- language ot of course and asking In unison How do you ou get that way Mary 1 And AmI the sifted out Interpreted and reduced to prosaic utterance would contain these statements state state- statementS mentS mentS' Theres nothing In Glacier wilder than are arc areas In iii other parks Glacier isn't perhaps the themo mo most t unique nor Is It undoubtedly the most ma magnificent Other parks have glacier carved basins lakes glaciers falls faIts wild willI animals and flowers Yellowstone beats all the parks except possibly Mount McKinley for tor wild animal life liCe Rocky Mountain probably has more cheep than Glacier Mount Rainier Is the champion chum chum- pion Wild Flower Park The feet Black are a liability rather than an asset Inasmuch as they slaughter relentlessly the park game gume that strays Into their r reservation the big game on the east eastside eastside side of the Divide Is gradually being wiped out Glaciers Glacier's highest mountain Mount 1 Cleveland Is only feet Rocky Mountain has 43 between and 5 feet Getting down to the y unique features of the National park system this 15 what we find T h e contains con tams more and greater geysers than all tile the test rest of the tho world together 31 o 0 u n t Rainier's single peak penk s Y s t tern e m with 23 living glaciers has no equal Crater Crat r Lake occupies occupies pies the hole holl left after a iare volcano had slipped back 1 n t o 0 earths earth's car t h s Interior 1 n t e r lor I through Its own rim It Is the deepest and bluest accessible lake lako lakein In the world the Sequoia cas- cas more than a million mil mn- lIon BIg Trees 12 of which are more than 10 feet In diameter diameter eter some are more than so 30 feet In diameter diameter eter and are the largest larg est and oldest living things of earth Hawaii II a wall national Park contains the t largest larg- larg est In Ih-In living volcano 0 inthe In Inthe the world M Mauna MaunaLoa a una Loa and KIlauea continuously a act c t I v e etor for tor a century with Its Lake of Fire which draws visitors from all the world Mount McKinley Is scenically the I loftiest st m mountain 0 u n t ll 1 n 1 since It rises more than feet above sea level and feet above Its sur sur 1 g valleys M Mesa sa Verde contains contaIns con con- the most notable notable not not- able and best preserved pro pre served prehIstoric cliff clift dwellings In the United Unit Unit- ed cd States it if not In the world CF Ar d Can Grand G Canyon ran yon lo J T earths earth's largest and noblest example of e r o 0 s I o 0 N 1 gorgeously carved and colored Is one of the natural wonders I of the world I Curiously enough Mrs Rinehart omItted mention i of the one feature that In the of many I does entitle Glacier to a place among the parks Its Lewis and the gorgeous coloration of Its mountaIns Zion National National Na- Na I Park In Utah Bryce Canyon Can In Utah likely to be made the Utah National Park and Grand Can Canyon on probably surpass GlacIer In coloration but their colors colors' are down In the depths whIle Gla- Gla Glaciers Glacier's ciers cier's are flung up Into the sk sky Now dont don't be scared b by the Lewis Heres Here's briefly what the geologists mean by the term The rock Nearest the center of the earth is called and the geologists know ver very little little lit lit- tle about It The next oldest strata are the Algon Algon- kian which were laid us as an ocean bottom sediment sediment sedi- sedi ment something like years ago It Is thIs group that are exposed In Glacier nowhere In the world are they displayed is I such area profusion and variety and In such cence of coloring These rocks Ue lie In four dIfferently col ored strata nIl all of which the Glacier visitor may maysee maysee see for himself The lowest Is the Alt Altyn n limestone about 1000 feet thick It weathers a pale burr buff There are whole yellow ellow or of this on the eastern edge of Glacier Next Nest above lies Ues a stratum ot of argillite or green shale about feet thick It weathers every shade of dull green Next Above f that u lie abo about t 2200 feet of Grinnell argillite or red shale It weathers every possible shade of deep red and pur- pur pIc On top Is about feet of Siyeh limestone pur-I pur gra gray and running In places to yellow ellow Horizontally through gh the middle of this limestone Is a broad bront dark band called the diorite IntrusIon Now when these brilliantly colored strata were thrust up from the bottom of the sea they were practically level Then there came a gigantic squeeze The strata yielded In long Irregular wave like folds Finally they and then broke One brol broken en edge the western was thrust upward a and d over the other This WEstern edge was thousands of feet thick It overlapped the eastern edge ten to fifteen mlles miles This Is the LewIs Range It Is this for the inconceivably that accounts tumbled character or of the vast vust rock rocky es There Is a sag where the park lies A horizontal line drawn straight across Glacier would pass through the bottom of the AIt Altyn n limestone on the east t and west find and In the middle ot of the park through the top of the Siyeh limestone It would cut dla diagonally through the green and red on both hoth sides of the Continental Divide The uninformed tourist doubtless says 1 S 'S to himself him him- I self as he heads the flivver ver west There fin fine national na parks In a row row-Ho row lQ Mountain Yellow Yellow- Yellowstone I stone and Glacier GInder All three In the ls l's nod on the Continental i Divide Divide- all much alike See Ole aae and rye Ive seen een nil all That shows the necessity ot of the campaign ot of pd ed- that mt the federal gO and e n Parks association and many out out door door of-door organizations or- or ons fire are wn waging to get t I tko American people people peo- peo to see their national parks with understandIng understand understand- Ing as well os as emotionally For Rocky Mountain Yellowstone und and Glacier are essentially nt y Is solid granite a most astonishing aggregation ot of loft lofty peaks und beautiful valleys s 's perched on the top of the Continental Divide Yellowstone Is volcanic with volcanic activities everywhere In evidence GlacIer Is sedimentary rock twisted und and fumbled nod and gorgeously colored Congress has hns just passed an act authorizing the I making of n budget for road building purposes In Inthe inthe the national parks carr carrying lug a total of over o three years It If funds are appropriated Glaciers Glacier's Gla- Gla Biers ciers tentative allotment Is This would doubtless burr hurry the Road to com com- completion Speed the day 1 0 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