The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-27
A NATIONAL PARK
CONGRESSMEN WANT PAN HAN
HANDLE DISTRICT or TEXAS
RESERVED.
District Supplies Red River Valley
Contains Great Cedars-f5
Miles Wide and IS Miles
Ing.

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Congressman from Texas, Oklahoma,
| Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi,
the Red River Contingent" have
caused Secretary OF Agriculture Will
| SON to be inundated these days
| with maps, stereoScopic views and
| Typographical charts OF the region in
| the panhandle Of Texas which they
nope to see set apart as another
national park. call was sent out
for all the information when com
Imittees in dozen counties coult
lsupply and it included data on
breadths, heights, and measurements
IAN details OF the picturesque Polo
| Duro Canyon in the counties of Raa-
dali, Armstrong and Swisher, near
Amarillo. The district isabout fiji.
teen miles wide and forty miles long,
| the originating point for the fresh.
cts of the Red River valley.
This effort has been coming on
for years. In fact, every time the
| Red River has gone on rampage
they have been saying down In the
greatnorthwest that Uncle Sam ought
10 be asked to stop it Tie method
Of stopping il proposed is the con-
struction Of dams and basins for
catching and conserving the freshet
before it gets too far from home,
Millions OF acres of land have been
carried down stream by the ffeshets,
q waste which 1t is proposed to stop.
Also the available reserve supplies
of water would add millions of dol.
lars to the value of land along tire
Red River and its tributaries. and
greatly increase the navigability Of
that stream one which is navlgable
greater distance than any other
stream IN ihe United States save
threae
Great forests of red cedar in the
district which win com prise the
park have served to lessen the lam.
age Of the food torrents Of spring.
These forests the Red River della.
cations in congress hope to reserve
aud If tney do, it is said that no
other national park in the country,
neither the Grand Canyon nor the
Yellowstone will exceed in scenic
graddeur and interest that OF the
l'alo Duro
Down in the Texas panhandle,
which in recent years has increased
in population several hundred per
cent, as the range was turned into
farmland committees are working
like nailers to get the necessary eyi.
dence and the necessary pressure IA
Congress to carry through witaout
a hitch bin for creating the new
reservation In letter from Jasper
N Haney, chairman Of one OF the
local committees at work in Silver.
ton, Amarillo, Canyon City, TuIia,
Hereford, Claude and Clarendon, he
said
There can be no reasonable doubt
but what the park will be an occom.
plished fact soon since it can be ac-
complished so easily. Amarillo
Canyon City and some other towns
are within 60 minutes drive of the
canyon, the picturesqueness of
which will compare with the Gand
Canyon and that of the Yellowstone
Three years ago this national park
VS. proposed nd the Palo Duro Nat.
iona Association which included
some Of the liyest wires OF the south.
west, secured a lot Of important ia
ta and secured recommendation Of
many national bodies. including farm
ers' congress, stockmen's associe-
tions, medical conventions and Others
that, the Palo Duro park be set apart
as reservation, and be made the
reservoir of usefulness for the noo1s
which have lone so much damage
through the Red River valley.
ANY one who will take the trouble
to personally investigate that Won
derful gorge will become convinced
that the park is entirely feasible.
II we have neither the patriotism
nor the foresight to reserve such a
place as a park our children after US
will do so when we get out OF the
way Congressman John w Ster-
hens is giving this matter specias
attention aud he is assisted by his
colleague Hon Morris Sheppard ana
also by practically all the nationa.
legislators Of Texas. Oklahoma, ArsI
kansas. Louisiana and MISSISSIPPI
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