The Holbrook news., 1911-09-22

VERY year the great resorts of
 Europe are visited by thousands
 of tourists who apparently have A no knowledge of the great na-
 tional parks which have been created by congress for the benefit of the people and in which there are natural features and views that can not be surpassed.
 If ths traveller seeks Alpine glaciers he has only to go to the Glacier Ma tional Park, where there are more glaciers in the same area than in Switzerland; if he desires to travel in comfort over finely built roads that rival those of France, Switzerland and Germany. the Yellowstone Park ex- tends its invitation to him.
 If he is attracted to Europe by the mystery of the Black Forest, he can find more majestic and impressive forests on the slopes of the Sierra Ne vada, in the Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant perks. If his thoughts turn to the clear blue lakes of Swift Eerland, he can find their counterparts lp the Glacier and Crater lake national parks.
 Should he be anxious to risk his life in scaling snow-clad peaks. he has only to repair to Mount Rainier in Washington, whose steep slopes and lce-covered top will furnish sport ex- citing enough for the most daring of mountaineers. If he Is interested in the ruins of prehistoric people, the Casa Grande ruin in Arizona and the Mesa Verde National Park in Cobra do will show him how the aboriginal inhabitants of America lived hundreds of years before its discovery by Euro peans.
 Yellowstone Is Best Known.
 The Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming is the oldest and the best known of all the parks and reservations. It was created by an act of congress in 1872. and ever since that time the government has been constructing roads and cutting trails, until now the park is in high state of development and all parts of it are accessible to the traveller.
 In the park may be seen natural phenomena the like of which is found nowhere else in the world. Here are guysers that throw jets of steam and hot water into the air. great terraces formed from deposits of mineral mat ter in the water thrown up by the geysers. and the great falls of Tel lowstone river which traverses beau tiful multi-colored canyon that is sec ond only to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
 In this park may be seen the deer. the bear, the antelope and the bison on their native range. because hunt ing is prohibited and the bands of deer and antelope roam through the valleys and over the slopes as they did years before they were practically exterminated in the greater part of the west
 The Glacier National Park in north ern Montana on the Canadian border is the newest of the parks controlled by the federal government This park has an area of about 915.0OO acres and has a maximum length of sixty miles.
 Yosemite in Class by Itself.
 When one speaks of California the Yosemite Park naturally comes to mind. As long ago as 1864 an act of congress granted the Yosemite val ley and the Mariposa big tree grove to the State of California for public use and recreation. The legislature of California by the act approved March 8, 1905, re-ceded the jurisdic- ton and ownership of this tract to the United States. and only since June II, 1906, has the management of the Yosemite National Park been under the control of the federal government
 The entire park has an area of about 36 by 40 miles. The Yosemite valley, which is the most freuuently visited place Is about miles long and % mile wide. In the center of ttis valley is a level. parklike mead ow. through which runs the Merced river, while on either side the noun tains rise steep and precipitous to height of 1000 feet above the floor of te valley.
 cage of the cliff to the valley below. The first of these as the tourist en- ters the valley is the Bridal Veil Falls A stream fully thirty feet wide falls a distance of 500 feet, then rushes over a sloping Lile of debris, and then drops perpendicularly 300 feet more.
 The great waterfall in this park. however. is the Yosemite Falls. This