Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13

height in their effort to get to the sunlight
Ihey grew. too, in a canon defended by d
roaring river fordable during but a few ex-
cepuonal days in the summer.
Interest of GeOIOgists.
The biologists have a great interest in
he opening of this region as park The
'ght rivers flowing from Rainier's slopes
e fed by as many great glaciers each
it'll any tributary glaciers. None of the
glaciers have been fully explored mapped
or measured. Several descend to the level
of 1000 feet and present all the features OF
Alpine glaciers Four glaciers are over
twelve miles in length and one mile in
width, with an average motion of three
and four feet a day. The evidences of vol
| canic action offer other interesting studies
to scientists. The whole mountain. built
up by successive eruptions, has been COW
cred with a sheet of lava. There are
striking illustrations of the forcing OF
molten material through assures and cool
ing, leaving the trap rock columnar struc-
ture lying at all angles from horizontal to
perpendicular, and sometimes twisted like a
rope. There are peaks of granite burned to
| sand and beautiful amygdaloid and con.
glomerate formations" note one visitor
There are, too, heaps of scorial and vol
canic ash ringed around with flowers and
masses of obsidian.
The streams around the peak are the
spawning grounds of salmon and trout
snap in the many lakes hidden in the for
estS
The west side of the mountain offers
many attractions 70 those not bent on
climbing the peak. In 1888 Mr. Bailey
Willis of this city had a twenty-fve-mile
trail cut, from the end of track at the
.colliery town of Wilke son to the Edmund
slacler, taking in various points of interest
on the way. The German scientists of Mr.
Wizards great transcontinental excursion
were among the first to traverse the na IN
and reach Observatory Point 10 600 faat
elevation, whence the view Is almost fin or
thah from the summit. The Senator Ger
r. Edmunds of Vermont, who made the
trip to this same outlook and it is easily
made on horseback, all but the last mile or
so, wrote:
Il have been through the Swiss rnoun
Jams and am compelled to own that there
Is no comparison between the finest effects
exhibited there and what is seen in an
preaching this grand and isolated noun
tain. L would be willing to go 500 miles
again 10 see that scene. The continent is
yet in Ignorance of what will be one of
the grandest show places. as we'll as sani-
tariums. If Switzerland is rightly called
tne play ground of Europe, | am Satisfied
that around the base of Mount Rainier
will become prominent place of resort NOT
for America only, but for the world besides
with thousand of sites for building mr.
poses, mat are now nowhere excelled for
the grandeur of the view that can be Oh
tanned from them, with Typographical fea
lures that would make the most nerfeot
system or drainage both possible and easy
ana with most agreeable and health-giy-
ing climate" CIV
The First Map.
Mr.. Willis made the first man NJ tb.
mountain and its glaciers which was
printed with his geological report in a vol.
ume of the tenth census QSSW. From II
Berghaus drew the map in the Glelscher-
Karte of his Physical Atlas uss6). and
BerphanS himself al no
Puy allup glacier and named it for Mr.. VIII
lis. Tacoma surveyor, having published
map of the mountain, in 1888 on which
several of the glaciers were renamed an
appeal was made to the board of geogra phic
names,which sustained the Wili:s-Bergh