The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-03-19

ing Alighting at the village Of Bolton, we have
delicious meal in the Great Northern's pretty
Swiss chalet hotel and climb aboard stage coacH
for the ride to Lake Mcdonald For an hour we
travel boulevard cut through dense forest OF
pine spruce and balsam, and then, where group
of cottages are clustered on it's shore the lake
opens out before us. This 11mile stretch of water
Is so beautiful in setting and color, that no WORDS
are adequate to describe it. Lake Mcdonald was
a popular resort long before the national park
was established, and there are several hotels ana
camps about it's northern end TO one OF these,
the Glacier hotel, we are taken by launch to be
greeted cordially by its proprietor }. E. Lewis,
who for years has been taking care OF fishermen
and other folk who wanted to spend week or
summer in the open. So near that 1t seems but
moments walk from the shore, the mountains OF
the park tower to the skies, casting their Jagged
reflections in the still waters of the lake. ten
mile ride through the forest that clothes their
lower slopes brings us to Avalanche lake. Pea
green in color, rejecting the spruce and pine ana
hemlock that crowd to its very edge, 1t lies like
a precious gem in deep basin that is a verltable
mountain garden. At end the rock wall rises
almost perpendicularly for 5000 feet and over its
edge ard down it's face dash four torrents as
charged from sperry glacier, two miles away
Not very easy OF access, but wonderfully impress
sve when you get to it after some five hours Oh
climbing is Sperry glacier. Just great hed OF
ice and snow about three miles in extent ana OK
under the midsummer sun. Crevasses cross It's
expanse here and there, and the tourist must Dc
exceedingly careful if he ventures out on it's sur
face Indeed, the authorities do not permit this,
unless with guides and ropes, on any of the gla-
ciers in the park. The wind is always high up
there and snow and rock slides are frequent.
The mountains and glaciers and lakes and
passes we have seen are only few OF the wonders
of this wonderful park-only few, indeed, OF
that part that is open to ordinary sight-seers
Almost half of the park, the northern part, Is
known to few except forest rangers, guides, lndi
ans and some scientists Doubtless before many
wears the whole region will be opened up, and the
remarkably satisfactory system of camps estab
lished by the Great Northern Railway company
will be extended to the Canadian border. Within
the last year these accommodations have been en-
larged greatly to meet the demands of the rapidly
increasing stream Of visitors.
One more thing must be said for Glacier Ma
tional Park: 1t is pleasure ground for the PEG
pie not for the millionaire. No fine clothes, NJ
extensive luxuries there. All charges are regu
lated by the government, and it is the ambitio,
of Louis Hill, chairman of the board of directors
the Great Northern, to keep the necessary ex
penses of visitors down to the minimum Glacie
park is his hobby and his pride, and he is a
familiar with its trails and passes as are tn
guides and the Indians. OF course tourist trave
to the park helps his railway, and at some time il
the far future the company may begin to brea
even on it's lavish expenditure OF money to max
things comfortable for those who go all the wa
to Montana to see the Switzerland OF Aner.ea-
haven't yet devised better name For it.