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Show Irrigation Threatens the Glacier Park i St Mary lake, the upper of the two, all of It In Glacier National park. Is one of the most strikingly beautiful waters on the American continent There are many who assign It first place. An English traveler who had explored the Himalayas and the Andes recently stated that among the lakes of greatest beauty tn the world, it Is by far the supreme example of its scenic kind. It lies east and west between mountains moun-tains of quite extraordinary form and coloring, including such werld celebrities celebri-ties as Red Eagle, Little Chief as4 Qolng-to-the-Sun mountains, and beads np toward the glacier-splashed - Continental Con-tinental divide at a point of sensational sensation-al magnificence. The proposed reservoir will cover the forested shores from which these famous mountains rise and will submerge sub-merge several miles of fine forest at the head of the lake through which the glacier-run St Mary river winds Into tbe lake. When the irrigation water wa-ter Is drawn low in August, the world-famous world-famous view from the St. Mary chalets, which thousands go there te see every summer, will be eiasi4 across the lower middle by mucky mud-flats. - F LIGATION threatens Uiader National Na-tional park. Recommendations made by the international joint commission com-mission to the governments of the ' United States and Canada urge that ovLower It Mary lake, in the Blackfeet Indian reservation, Montana, be converted con-verted Into an Irrigation reservoir which will push ten miles back Into the national park territory adjoining on the west, and turn the upper and lower lakes Into one reservoir. If this la done, tbe level ef beautiful St Mary lake, wholly within the national park, will be raised more than forty feet Ji Under the treaty of 1000. Canada ""fwtll have a prior light to threrquar-ters threrquar-ters of these national park waters; tbe other quarter will go to Montana. |