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Show Glasler National Parti ' :f f 4M This ia one of a series of articles to appear in this newspaper, sponsored by the Salt Lake Advertising Club, associated civic clubs of southern and central Utah, and chambers of commerce: part of program to point out Utah'i resources so that local people will "Know Utah Better". By P. J. MULLIN No traveler to the European Alps ever beheld more riotous scenery than is experienced by the thousands who every year pour through the fascinating mountain vastnesses of Glacier National Park. In America's Ameri-ca's back door, Glacier extends into Canada, and since 1932 has been connected with the Canadian portion of the park as the Waterton-Glacier Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. It is seldom that romance such as Glacier's is attached to any national na-tional park. For Chief Mountain in the park was the "King's Mountain" Moun-tain" Indicated by Lewis and Clarke on their expedition map of 1S04-05. In 1810 the first white men were taken across Marias pass. In 1855 the area now in the park east of the park east of the Continental divide wa3 allotted to the Blackfeet Indians as hunting' grounds. Late in the century, this section was the center of a fevered but unsuccessful mining min-ing rush. First wide attention to the park as a scenic center was drawn in about 1900," and in 1910 President Taft signed the bill adding It to the nation's store of natural beauty as a permanent park. Here is America's glacier country. Nestled among the higher peaks are more than 60 glaciers and more than 200 cirque lakes. During the summer it is possible to visit most of the glaciers and many of the lakes with very little difficulty. Horseback and foot trails penetrate almost every section of the park. Nowhere are the named points of scenic Interest so apt in description descrip-tion as in Glacier. But very few of the'names were the product of the white man. From their earliest wanderings, the Indians applied their own picturesque designations terms which still exist. Of these, Two Medicine Valley is perhaps the best known section of the park. The road which lead3 into the valley ends at the chalets near the foot of Two Medicine lake. Across the mountain is Mount Rockwell and in the distance the Continental divide. At Glacier, too, there is a point from which waters flow in three directions: to the Gulf of Mexico by Cut Bank Creek and the Missouri river; to Hudson Bay by St. Mary River, and to the Pacific Ocean by Flathead river. In Red Eagle valley was once a glacier 2,000 feet thick, and the present glacier there can be seen from any point in the valley. Other picturesque points are Almost-a-Dog Mountain, St. Mary Valley which Is the largest and most celebrated, Gunsight Pass, Little Chief Mountain, Moun-tain, Swiftcurrent valley, Belly River valley scores of others. The spectacular Going-to-the Sun highway, already well known as one of the outstanding scenic roadways in the world, connects the East and West sides of the park, crossing the Continental divida through Logan pass at an altitude of approximately 6,700 feet. This road makes available to thousands of travelers who would not have time, funds and perhaps the strength for pack trips, some of the finest alpine scenery in the world. Reached through highways drawing from all parts of the country and by rail, the park is rapidly becoming an increasing attraction not only for American tourists but for people from ail portions of the world. |