The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-11-28
UAL MUSEUM
OF NATURAL HISTORY
Is Capt. Charles GOOdNight'S Idea Of the PaIO DurO
National Park Which Amarillo Meeting
Gives Increasing Prominence

The real work Of the executive
committee Of the Palo Duro Parh
association did not actually com
mence until o'clock p, m, Tues
day because of tho delayed arriva
Of some Of its members from Tulia
Canyon, Claude and Goodnight, who
did not come in until the noon trains
In the meantime, those member.
who we're already in town, spent a
busy morning laying out different
plans and methods Of organization
which we're presented at the full
meeting Of the committee in the aft
oruoon.
After a sunptuous dinner served
to the members of the committed
and their ladies, as the guests Of the
Amarillo Chamber Of Commerce, The
committee got down TO business
promptly at o'clock in the Cham
Der OF Commerce rooms. The fol,
lowing members were present Hon
Jasper ~ Haney mayor Of Canyon
City; Captain c. Goodnight Of Good
night; Judge H. Cough, Of Here.
ford; Hon. L. r. Lester. OF Canyon
City, Judge Harry Tracy, Of Tulia;
Judge r p. Doak, Of Claude; Henry
A. Mobiles, of Amarillo, and Vernon
Beggs, secretary.
Interested Citizens Attend Meeting
Several other citizens OF Amarillo
and ajoining territory interested in
the movement were present. and CO.
operated with the committee, among
whom were Hon, j r. Bowman, rep
resentativc Of this district in tho last
state legislature, and who introduced
and successfully passed tho act per-
hitting the United States 10 acquire
title to the necessary land in the
Palo Duro for national park pur-
poses; l.. p Mitchell Colonel vii
liam Penn Anderson, Canyon City,
and a number of others.
On motion Of Judge Tracy Mayor
Haney was made permanent chair
man Of the association, and Vernon
Beggs, permanent secretary. 1t
seemed TO the unanimous judgment
of the committed that Captain c.
Goodnight, Of Goodnight, DO made
permanent vice chairman, although
Captain Goodnight protested, stating
that while he was intensely interest
cd in the movement, and would do
all that he could, still he felt that
his interests were such that he could
not assume the duties; however,
when IL was explained TO him that
he had been SO long identified with
the movement, had been so much
Interested in 1t in the past and there
was perhaps no other man in the
entire Panhandle country who had
the intimate and familiar knowl-
edge Of the canyon, he was forced to
reluctantly accept Hon, l., r. Les
ter of Canyon was elected treasurer,
Resolutions which had been pre-
pared in advance we're then offered
by Judge Cough of Hereford. and
each paragraph being considered
separately, some amendments we're
made, and the following was finally
adopted:
Resolutions.
Whereas, natures handiwork and
vagaries are most grandly demon
strated in tho beautiful Palo Duro
canyon, exhibiting rocky crags,
rough ravincs, ragged slopes, beau
tiful water falls, awcsome gorges,
forests OF varied woods, tangled un-
dcrgrowth and Wild thickets, which
today remain practically in their
natural state, und,sturbed by the
ravascs Of man, affording retreat to
the Southwest; the PaIo Duro be-
ing without parallel in the United
States this immense gorge Of fifty
miles in length by six miles in width,
occurring abruptly in the center Of
a flat, aluv,al plain which sur
rounds it for hundreds OF miles on
either side, offering an opportunity
Tor the making OF a national park
and game preserve unlike any other
similar reservation, in that il is not
carved out Of scenic country, prac-