Show zar I 1 I 1 R 2 f ax I 1 t 4 R s tit it 9 if za M I 1 3 44 na 7 W to ainoa Ji Noa B U 4 eswa 1 I tay by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN UR CR national monuments act a 1 hundred red years from now will be num numbered a red bidon the priceless celesa dome possessions inual of the he american african people at present b they are re pretty much neglected b both by the federal government and DY by the pea people PL Is there are am 30 or more in charge of the interior department and n d congress gives the of nil 1 p park 1 j bervice a r ice but 5 to ram tor I 1 all 1 of 1 them I 1 visitors to the IS 18 where reckons recons a 0 were am kept numbered cumb ered but 8 86 6 1 last t season but t that at I 1 afi h bemuse because aft tibi thant the people 1 ehnow a almost 1 t nothing g about the national monuments cut some d day y that thise national 1 sy zad monuments will be re made do easily accessible table and fixed alp ilp p then the people will flock to them for all of them are well nell worth north me ing and mar mani se them are ame among al the wi wonders calar ot the world rid tt A in 1 national I 1 P paries rk a bad and ca national theraid forests and national at 1 monuments 0 of etc etc r the public I 1 IB nai t rally mixed up on shot what he beree the right of that there them at are a 13 19 national parks each established by a se act ot of congress and all al in c charge barge of ill the national pirk service ot of the interior department primarily they contain scenic features of national importance lisp though t efto not hot springs 1 in A arkansas r armas and platt in oklahoma are an medicinal th ahey I 1 are am kept as tar far as possible in their agi I wild state list and are wild lid life seminaries sanctuaries they are protected east against liml lar names in the na tonal park lu system stion are n rocky M mountain let and ad grand cily canyon lafavette on an the coast of maine is IB the only scenic nation park east of the mississippi congress congre will not it purchase old land for national park par purposes poses and the only public lands are in the west lafaette was presented to the nation by public spirited there are six elx national at military pal parla gems ft burg I 1 and Mck nickell eburg rg are Is familiar or examples under control central of tile war department there them or are a approximately ap pp national forests foresto old under control colatat of a the rot ro t service of the depart intent dint di nt of they were vere established for far scientific lumbering and tor far g grazing zing and were vere originally p purely illy c commercial pr propositions piti tile the agricultural Werd tr department he however we over in its persistent efforts dian to in a get control central of I 1 the he national parks parko has set act up cp recreational features fea turea in many mati nailon I f forests to in competition with fill the national parks now we come to tile the Is national I 1 I 1 noall notional national all L landmarks Land marka would world be a more fitting besig nation if previous to ON tb the united states tales had bad to bo p provision 1 of an for the establishment of national if 1 monument men a pub public insistence md tonce became se BO great for the protection of u natural wonders press from vandalism that I 1 in 1906 tile the act tor for the preservation pr eynatten of american Anti antiquities I 1 ice was cassed by congress this llila let act p provides idea or 1 tile the P punishment of of vandal ism han and ad tor for permits to excavate and collect sec sea tion ties 2 of the act reads mads that tu the s P asmat in the united culled Is hereby thelnia in a him bli discretion 4 in to a declare ol by b P public bill prod urn at hi ion a hole and prehistoric fil to crumn nd ad other object bj of 10 ri I 1 or act interest that r ft stunted no 0 upon the th tend owned or controlled by tin the government v anzac it of th he be itce 8 atte to no ba national 1 I 1 mon mearin nd ad mar ro 11 1 part art th thereof I 1 parcel ot at land 0 ha limit of 1 w which wh h 1 in 11 II 11 cli cases e hall be ba 1 confined mal to th clr mall it t bunma late with th the proper cars aind ad anra rement 1 of I t th h objects to is jim b vt protected under ill thin act about 50 call a anre mo now w leeta established 1 dished about BO 30 are am in IB charge of un the national all park bervice and about 16 15 u later control of tile forest service ervice th the war department controls three thome exact figurea commit cannot be given as aa changeat he 9 a are constantly oem occurring irrig of I 1 those he controlled by the forest the largest 1 la mount blount olympus in Aus washington hington which la Is K region ot at mountains forests and gi gai glaciers I and ad we the b home 1 of the olympic elk bendel bandemer Ban deUer I 1 1 in new mexico 1 c ore r conta 0 ats lBS vast number bumbera of I in lot 1 cliff bueller dueller amb emb mini and Is presumably baled for far Us ba finned p park ark I 1 bou honors ners bryce claims canion in utah utha of aich more am later 1 la as an eroded tied cunyon you of TAW acres T the b 1923 1023 report repeat 0 of f director stephen T math or of at if the u park service to the secretary of the let interior t of 7 in addition to devils tower el morro 0 and nd petrified Pe trifled forest of which in moral let later the following am aa the list of at the mont national banat monuments enta unai and r b hr charge they bebee baa grasped by this writer the list ilat iw A am montezuma looram uma C CI cabria I art ardona 1301 bovid CorIo ho cliff 1 dw dwelling har ISO acres cha chaco C canyon c new 1907 numerous nume roua pueblos ia mid cliff wills so 20 as acres or N navajo J ar arno alliona no nos 1909 prehistoric abl pueblos sed and olaff dwellings acres Hoven weep utah colorado 1923 orcal prehistoric ri towers towi I 1 pueblos h min and ellif cliff is usg ore crea T 1 ar alliona cm 1908 ruin 1 of 1 is seventeenth century rc franciscan I 1 I 1 to 10 aclei G gran 1 qc Q c new mexico ancient pueblo fluell and ariy early riy spanish ad mission lao ISO acres or casa call grande grand act arizona p l ric reec ic 4 BO acres yum yucca H house colorado 1119 1919 prehistoric relic I 1 10 acres abt axtel ruin but new mexico 1923 prehistoric tri pueblo busill of I 1 rooms 8 acres aso pipe P spring a arizona ibl old at stone amr tort and ad har h ot at pioneer days 40 a acres a ice melr ir woods viand CI california llarch 1903 ft alne redwood arrao I 1 42 a acrea BM pinnacles c california III 1908 08 many elfre at 1 like rock lack formations sea 1 to a re feet hims high 2 13 natural I 1 bridges utah 1808 three very term large later natural I 1 brid 2 acre abw rainbow riess utah uch isla 1910 hight mom feat fat pal 27 feet so acres cra talks alaska asla park ark of mid as I 1 I 1 16 1 line I lot totem poles 57 lyres c colorado a colorado arod is 1911 amal wonderful 11 example of arabo ay many iy loft left ano th IS am are flacum lacum arto dort ert flora core and ad many y vist griam 1940 1 anrrea levia anil clark cavern want montana his and cj limestone cae a acoca bai ice c cavern W wyoming 1 I 1 1909 larell thre too a civa acres B dinosaur I 1 U utah imig 1816 d deposit aft of 1 co foell 1 remaina 80 acres ayad south in dakota 1922 deposit of plant fossils all SA 30 our acres CO capulin 1 me mountain id se new zi mexico vic 1118 cinder cone a of geologically clo ily recent formal formation set more acres 1 lenal ala alaska 1918 volcanic ph phenomena coc including a val valley of to ten I 1 thousand S kal 1 arca V a read north dakota 1917 includes ihan crow crew big bakh butte fr from which the famous ma french explorer tint saw w in trani n BO ri territory re scott nebraska ill 1919 point of 1 historic interest in winning fam of tha be west 2053 cres page of Inte interesting matter 1 could a old be arill written en beef about these callion d monuments take to for I 1 sz x ample thoe of arizona new mexico and bird Col rd they illustrate the history of tile the american south from the prehistoric times almea ot of tile hie cliff dwell ere era down ahr through nab tle the many cars of frantic front searching for 9 gold old by the spanish soldiers eold lera and the colonizing and by tile the spanish priests corte re fend mexico for far spain in n 1519 21 it was BOOD looted loan it the spaniard then to turned in ad his him h far or slid gold toward P peru eru hl 1 3 another nother fc baiori tar and A toward the unexplored wilder ipland arm to the north ahe the air was fit rall of nor thein rd treasure mthr el dorado dared the ninn man and a whole ville people clothed in ID gold bold tile the seven cit cities I 1 of if clin cibola I 1 a with nith their thelI golden domes dames 01 jr ill the a fly city a of gold bide aide bv be wile bide soldier all priest invaded in d tile the desert denert each despised tile the other each ud the he other Corona Corm aidoo doa expedition from moser mexico in 1510 that penetrated as for no as ivun ban IB 1 one of the most at romantic in at all hilory gran glen piira me waa once mice tile the flourishing fl lading pueblo elt city of abir believed 11 d to he be quit qui ira hy by the he biami larda it no discovered in 1581 by daco 14 Ban cheis h do de francisco tie de aced founded the mission in ibm th the aftab 1 it out it about 1670 the ancient pueblo bei held d built about I 1 broo ill alie garat rest am mono bulb a ba built I 1 if I 1 in n r both b fill stand rand in vils ghost ell alli of the long aso age Maide zurna catl ti th la in one of tile llie relies of the prehistoric people called cliff dwellers dwelle dw ellera and ad Is very 0 old it to a com communal monal house of 2 rooms me bit I 1 it la in a shallow cuve cove in the th fare face of a lofty cliff cana grande great house 1310 0 to IB H prehistoric mam tery it was waa already a ruin min 1 alien I frie ma ciaro 5 d discovered it 1 in 1539 it to IB a large building of turn concrete camlet called led cu lectie he il illy plastered within it stood stands in adale inree re compound adamant of outlying building enclosed closed iw 1 rectangular wall abea not ruin was I 1 presented to the nation by archer M huntington of the ins american ill museum of N at auml history it is 1 being extensively eiten excava excavated nd and ad restored and centuries were before columbus columbia of 1 the tha richest centers center or at prehistoric chille atina was wai the valley talley of the alai river in ID NO new mexico Mex clen there then within the iodine of a ingle mil vast tut ot of earth and fallen tons mark the tha atte 1 of zy co ann unity dwellings in its iia original condl that the A axtel kuln bull itself we was a stately lately data structure asb by f ft feet t three art high and 4 bit built it around a rectangular act court caum th the 70 tot specimens a al already fly re covered cove r e d probably jr tha me most meet earn co m p I 1 e t a collection representative of prehistoric north american culture mount ke harmal trinal a big A I 1 isla n vote volcano b blew off I 1 it iab head bead I 1 in iain covered a vast penen bula 1 with fill ing blag and darkened the skies all over tile the world with dual L the explosion a also aloo created the valley of ten thousand one ona of the coudere of the world it la is tire live volcanic plan d cracked by ita fl lure aurea and pitted by millions nill llona ot of faret role of if every hue bile which bubble old and belch and send ad up beeam a sall and amohn lack and so 80 it goes each national if I 1 monument he has 1 lt own story rely and new national dortu ment s are b being ing cx axce and one a of f the newest est 1 la carlsbad coca caca to in NOW new mexico it has been only pact partly y explored but is stated b bv experts tar far to sur pass mammoth co cava in aim and ad 1 in mag afi cene and variety of mt decoration the latest addition to the list of monuments at Is the craters crater of tile the moon in idaho where 40 0 square here miles III havis have been bee met eat aside by pr pres ale ident coolidge li it a lava won wonderland doand with ii conea m in tunnell tun oil nela caves azz and all 11 sorts or of 1 twisted and contorted contacted lorms forms of if hardened vol 1 I c cle canic le new flow of thy the national comfor monuments mort ell chosen for far illustration tie bryce canyon has lust just bee been given park honors bounce A bill tor far it its ema creation to ea the utah national park was passed in the closing hours been of the last session of congress its feature la is a box canyon three miles long and two MO miles wide cut 1000 feet fact into the plateau pierce of if bouth i ill eastern utah there I 1 is a wonderful variety a of form farm which a are painted in every min color shade unit tint of I 1 the has spectrum pearn reds d pinks creame tans no lacad lavendera lavenders lav enders e 0 purples purple blues blame grepla gracco c and altea bt it takes high rank among natural or wonders th the met act plu provides eldes that before bryce boce can canyon y a n be becomes mine utah noll national net park till oil lands in the th area buet at b be a evad to the united states utah an and it the union pacific own ser acoca the petrified forest contains the most let woodful wonderful collection of petrified trees treas in the world these tree trees ft he e in three groups group which really are 1 not ofa lai lacars ests cars at all for far most meet of the trunks were r w washed be to thell theia present positions on an eroded plain by prehistoric flood floada from forests tar far away mm bany of the trunks franks exceed feet 1 in knath one log ing feet fast 1 long 19 9 bridges a canyon say 45 feet fee wide th tl the state of of if the 1 wood I linan almost places it among the precious menet atones old onla or are ohal chat calk Y opals and agates agate on view few but a een Ji jasper latier on and ad the devils beils tower tomer 1 Is a an extraordinary mass of igneous rock k and Is one of the most conspicuous features feature of the black hills H il it region login of if V V coming it has been a landmark fr from prehistoric rifet first there 1 Is the level plot plain then a nodded wooded hill bell feet high and on top of that the tower fewer fret fat high and a mile 1 in circumference it its idea bides are fluted by great columns stand ile gerpen dici ilar let except where they flare far on out I 1 at the 11 base a and in at the top th jhc thc coll columns about 8 feet at in d diameter are mostly pentagonal but some are am four fear sided allied and wine some six tided I 1 11 I 1 marro national monument 1 in B landmark to thrill thirld a good american two iwo enormous connected rocks racks of if varl colored eroded sandstone rise non abrupt ly from the arid plain one suggests suggest a castle and Is called I 1 11 I 1 the other Is railed culled inscription lack because it bee bears pricel priceless historical 1 returns ifor nearly early four centuries ago these nails echoed the clouds of the steel home harness of and the prayers of Fr arni franciscan ni mort the there was a spring there and a shallow cove cave and soldier solder and pit turned side aside to them train from the old aid mat trail and there them they cut their names and tile the why and wherefore of their ruling comings and ad rings A an inscription perhaps us n important BS as la is this b cut by don dan junn juan tie d onate dust 14 years hymns before thim ahe pilgrims gricas mind landed on an plymouth r per abul I 1 do da malo malonon nod due don juan joan d onate dc dal 1 a 4 1 war mar df del our lur 6 is el 1 april del act 1606 caned by here tha be chief let D don 1 JI jamn I do d ozo ona fr from the to alsol of in south in on a I 1 th ditth in 0 1 orn april I 1 1606 this approximately free the anto ante of the omand 1 ln of santa pe as a it Is known ormos lived fixed him cal bacr there upon bl his return from the gulf of cm california 1 scarcely less jess |