The Holbrook news., 1912-08-09
AZ RAANZER

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 at the bottom and you will have as adequate a conception of the Yosemite as it is possible to get without seeing l 1t.
 Several thousand persons camp in this enchanted valley every summer. Its floor is nearly level-not a chaos of fallen rocks. More than 5000 acres are meadows and pasture. Trees and groves make it a natural park. Stage lines and an electric line run from the terminus of the railroad and there are stage lines through the park. The tourist season is from May l to No vember 1, but the park is accessible ] and hotels are open throughout the year.
 There is an electric road which | leads to the Sequoia National park, near Yosemite. Here is the home of the big trees, although they are found in continuous belt nearly 300 miles long, from Placer county to Kern coun- ty in California. These big trees are the greatest of living things and date back to the youth of the world. Some of them are believed to be 5000 years old. They antedate the oldest ciyiliza- tion of which the archaeologist finds any trace. They were forest giants be- fore Moses or Confucius or Buddha were born. Barring accident and catastrophe, they appear to be immor- tai. There is no evidence that they ever die of disease, decay or old age. Some of them are dead at the top, but they were blasted by lightning and the trunks are still as sound as ever
 Rainier Central Gem.
 Rainier National park, of whicL Mount Tacoma is the central gem, lies about seventy miles southeast of Ia coma, and contains nearly 400 square miles. It was set apart by the gov. ernment on account of its marvellous scenery and magnificent forests. Other world-famed mountains must be viewed from afar as cold, inaccessible peaks, but the traveller may explore every part of Mount Tacoma with com parative comfort and ease. Wherever he goes it's snow-crowned head, tow ering nearly 15.0OO feet above sea level, stands before him. It may be ascended to its very crater, into which the climber may retreat from chilly winds and have the exciting expert ence of comfortably sleeping on warm lava bed in the mouth of slumbering volcano.
 The journey from Tacoma may be made for a few dollars, and with no extra preparation. It is only a days trip to go, see the sights and return An automobile line runs from Tacoma to the park during the summer The tourist season is from the middle of June to the middle of September. In the autumn the splendid snows that cover the summit of Mount Rainier descend lower and lower until they cover the foothills at its base. What Fujiyama Is to the Japanese, Mount Rainier is to the people of the far northwest. Its giant mountain dome of snow seems suspended in the sky and dominates the region for miles about.
 The Yellowstone National park is the largest of all these playgrounds of | the people. It Is nearly $500 square miles in area, and is in Wyoming, | Montana and Idaho. Around 1t are | mountain ranges with peaks 14,OOO | feet high, and within it are exhibitions | of natures freaks and moods such az | no other land contains. They are ab. | solutely indescribable.
 The other national parks are the General Grant, in California, near the big trees; Wind Cave National park in South Dakota, which may be reached by private conveyances from Hot Springs, or from Custer; Sully's Hill park, North Dakota, on the shore of Devils lake; Platt National park. at Sulphur, Okla, and the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, which is in the town of the same name.