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Show I OUR SANCTUARY. What a paradise this sanctuary can be made which has been created cre-ated to Lhccast of Ogden, covering the hills, the dales, the wildwood. the crags of that great hCretch of outdoors known as Ogden 's part of the "Wasatch range! A gentleman from Denver was dilating on the park system of his home citj", telling of the transformation which had been brought about by the expenditure of millions of dollars, when an Ogdenite interrupted to point out that, while Denver had accomplished much by applying the artificial. Ogden, in a number of years, would have aven a more wonderful park because Nature's master hand would be employed. This sanctuary is to be made a haven for birds and for inoffensive inoffen-sive wild animals. One man is bringing in raccoons, another fox squirrels, a third is sending for birds of beautiful plumage and the game wardens are arranging to establish a colony of beaver on the headwaters of the Ogden. No more interesting animals exist than the beaver. On lLost Creek the beaver are cutting down three acres o trees and are building a series of small dams which are doing in-jfiry in-jfiry to farm lauds, and the game wardens aim to remove the dam builders to the sanctuary. What awonderful park it will be, when this new animal life becomes so'mimerOiUsas to be seen along the streams, the roads and the trails of the country -Jcading back into the rugged mountains wlii eh stand as sentinels .watching over the destiny of Ogden ! |