The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-26
Rocky Mountain National Park
Now Ready TO Accommo-
date thousands.

the first season under national con-
troll OF the stupendous, snow capped
of the World" the great backbone OF
the continent, now and hereafter to
be designated the Rocky mountain ma
itional park. There are many noun
tains in the Colorado Rockies that ex-
coed $4,000 feet in height, but only
one of them is included in the park.
Not for record breaking attitudes. but
for its supreme scenic magnificence
and availability for public use and
range, of which Longs peak is the
center, set aside for special develop
iment and administration.
This was done by Congress a .tc
last session. On July Secretary Lane
took formal possession by the appoint
iment of Charlie R. Trowbridge as tenn
porary supervisor, with permanent
headquarters at Estes park, the nat
ural gateway to this region of ,u-
road by the Fall River canyon fr AN
Estes park across the range to Grand
lake on the west is now actively uI-I
der way This road is the states con-.
tribution to the park.
The Rocky mountain national pack
| lies about seventy miles northwest CT
Denver. 1t contains about $50 square
than 5000 feet above sea level. 1t
lies on either side of the Continental
divide which at this point runs ir-
regularly north and south.
Bristles with Lofty Peaks.
This is wonderful snow capped
range carrying glaciers in its hollows.
| 1t includes. from Specimen mountain
on the north, the finest breeding
ground in the world for the celebraI-
led Rocky mountain sheep, Mounts
Ida and Julien, Terra Tomah peak,
Nakai peak. snowdrift peak, Flattop
mountain, Hal1et peak, Otis peak,
Taylor peak McHenry peak, Storm
peak, Mount Lady Washington. Longs
peak (14,255 feet). Mount Meeker, Pa
CODA, Chiefs Head, Mount Alice, Ia
nina peak. Mahana peak, Ouzel peak,
and Mount Copeland to say nothing
of many noble mountains rising veil
apart from the divide.
4 1T simply bristles with mountain
peaks" says Enos Mills to the house
committee on the public lands last
December. there are more than sixty
that rise above 10000 feet and a num-
Der between 1900 and $4,000 feet, and
one that rises above $4,000 feet Be-
tween these peaks are a number of
mountain lakes. nearly 200 OF them.
These vary in size from few acres
up to fifty or sixty acres. They are
IAN beautiful. Then. along with this,
remembering that this is the Contin-
entail divide, it is not high barren
region. For instance, the timber line
in the Alps is generally about $500
feet, but on these mountains it IS
about IL 500 feet and over to the tim
Der line. There are more than forty
species of plants growing. In this
region there are not only mountain
o Ire, tot 1oIy hut
are many kinds of wild life. For in
stance, you have in this RECON a great
number of mountain sheep, an animal
as active and as alert and agile as
the chamois in the Alps. He ranges
| in the higher parts OF this section,
sometimes running down to the low
er regions.
Grizzlies and Others.
I'm addition to the mountain sheep
other big game are the grizzly bear
and the black bear; deer are quite
the beaver, is exceedingly common.
In addition to this, / hope you will
remember that there are blooming
in this section each year not less than
1000 varieties of wild flowers. You
can not find in all the Alps in an
equal area as many kinds of wild
plants. In reference to this area be-
| ing scenic, gentlemen, want to call
| your attention to the fact that there
lis no place in the world, OFF the rail-
road. that has during the last few
years been visited by as many people
as this region proposed for the Rocky
mountain national park. Nature has
made it splendid natural park"
R. D, Marshall. chief geographer,
who was commissioned by the gov
eminent to report on this region, be-
gan in these words:
1.-THE region, as a whole, IS as beau
tiful as any to be found in the United
States, or, indeed. in the world. There
lis spread before the eye gorgeous
assemb1age of wonderful mountain
sculpture surrounded by fantastic
land ever changing clouds suspended
in an apparently atomless space. At
1 first view, as one beho1ds the scene
| in awe and amazement the effect has
panorama stretching away to illimit-
able distances; gradually this idea of
fdistance disappears, the magnificent
work of nature seems to draw hearer
and nearer, reduced apparently by an
unseen microscope to the refinement
lof delicate cameo Each view be-
1 come refined miniature framed by
another more Fascinating, the whole
presenting an Impressive picture new
ler to be forgotten
Most Frequented Of An.
This national park is no undiscov-
lered paradise of supreme beauty, like
the Sequia national park in Califor
MIA. which, in the twenty fourth year
of it's existence, had. last season, only
1867 visitors. More than $4,000 per-
sons visited the region now covered
1 by the Rocky mountain national park
Hast year, and considerable proper
ton Of these stayed there for a month
or more Most of them patronized
hotels at Estes park at the base of
i Longs peak. Estes park has not been
Included in the national park only be-