Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-05-02
GRANDEST SCENERY
IN WHOLE WORLD
IDAHO MINING MAN TELLS or
WONDERS OF THE PROPOS-
ED NEW NATIONAL PARK.
Capital News.

posed Sawtooth National Park
would open TO Boise by easy and
convenient automobile line. the
grandest natural scenery the world
ever saw. exceeding in natural
beauty and rugged attractis eness
the Swiss mountain scenery. and
which would within a very few
years attract to it thousands Of
tourists annually declared Edward
Brennan, the we'll known mining
man who is thoroughly familiar
with the section and has trav-
eled nearly every foot Of 1t a. he
yesterday discussed the proposed
park and its advantages to the
State.
THE extension Of the Atlanta
road should be made a part Of the
great State highway from BOsie to
Yellowstone National Park, he de-
clared 1T would make Of it a
scenic route every foot OF the way
from just very few miles above
Boise. across the summit of the
SaWtOOth mountains, down through
the marvellous Reddish Lake cOun-
try and for nearly a hundred
miles on toward Yellowstone Park.
There would be no hard grades:
the roadbeds all through the pro-
posed SawtOOth Park section are
naturally level and are as hard as
a paved street, and a scenic route
not eycelled anywhere in the world
OF fOur-hOur automobile trip from
Boise to the heart of natures beau
ty spot.
l.. rf he L. nt
know what an opportunity they
have to attract tourist trade to
the State. Here within easier ac-
cess to Boise than formerly ex-
listed to the great Yellowstone Ma
tional Park from any railroad point,
and practically still as easy of
access as that great park, lies a
scenic spot, an ideal fishing and
outing place amidst snow capped
mountains, more attractive than
any place in Europe or any other
country on the face of the globe
can offer and yet not until recent
Iy has any organized effort been
made to save for the State this
marvellous natural park or to at
tract the attention of tourists to
it.
compared TO SWltZer1and.
Not long ago | was in that
section with a gentleman who had
visited every section of the globe
and who had spent several months
visiting the wonders of the Swiss
mountains. This man said to me:
" You people of Idaho do not
know what you are letting slip
away from you. You are slow.
Some of these days some Eastern
tenderfoot will come in here, estab-
lish camping places, put III an au-
mobile route and build up a tour
ist traffic that will make him rich
and then you will awaken to what
has been lost for the benefit OF
the whole people of the State.
have spent months in Switzerland
and | want to tell you that Swift
erland has nothing that begins toll
compare to what you have right
here in Idaho but which you are
doing not the smallest thing in the
world to make use Of.
Mr.. Brennan is most enthusiast I
tic over the possibilities Of this
section as an attraction for tourists.
He emphasizes his statement that
for the entire distance almost /
from Boise to the center of this
place there would be presented TO /
the tourist attractions that they /
can see nowhere else. Perhaps /
the finest view before reaching the /
Reddish Lakes, he says, would be-
at Stanley, but the whole Of it IS
difficult to pick out one point (
above another.
Would Open Great Section.
Reddish Lakes have long been
known for their scenic beauty and
for their attractiveness as fishing
and outing places, but it has new
er been brought home to the peO-
pie of the State that the whole
section could be brought as con-
venient to the tourist as Is Nel-
lOwstone Park. If a highway were
built from Boise to Yellowstone
this section it would at
tract thousands of automobile tour
lists every year besides opening a
direct road connecting the entire
Salmon river and Lemhi country
to Boise by automobile.
Besides Reddish Lakes there are
a number of other lakes, large and
small, in the same vicinity, all easy
in building roadways to the section ;
rs a whole. The entire region
abounds in game and fish of all
Kinds and in a natural flora which
n itself is an attraction of great
merit. !
Mrs. George Smith of this city
las been interested in the preser-
yation of this ALPS of America
IS is also the Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs of the State. An eff c
ort is being made to have sew
raj townships set aside as the
sawtooth National Park, and Con- I
FRESHMAN French has already intro t
Iuced a bill in Congress providing Il
or such a park and he and Sena- ?
ors Borah and Brady have given I
ssurances that the bill is likely to L
Ass. if not at the present ses- a
ion. then soon thereafter. There I
as been some opposition to the g
reation of the park on the part t
( sheepmen who have been graz p
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