Middletown transcript., 1915-06-19

but at the same time over $4,000
people camped and dwelt among the
mountains and valleys of the Rocky
Mountain park. OF the new park Re.
gion the moving spirit for the past
half-dozen years has been a small.
slight, wiry, mountaineering man
with shock of red hair and a mouth
like steel trap, Enos A. Mills, the
naturalist and writer. In season and
out he has fought for the park, stub
bornly and even viciously and always
confident of ultimate victory in the
face Of at times apparently insur-
mountable difficulties and contro7er.
sizes.
The Rocky Mountain park will be a
money maker for the state of Colo
RADIO and for the United States. 1t
rivals Switzerland, and with the other
national parks it will be the means
of keeping in America a great deal of
good American coin that heretofore
has annually been dropped into the
ample pockets of Alpine scenery CAPT
talists. The European war will re-
suit in turning westward during the
coming seasons many thousands of
tourists. and once they have seen
America first" they will be inclined to
see it first, last and all the time. The
outbreak of hostilities in Europe last
summer and the stranding of thou.
sands of American travellers in Euro.
pean countries brought home to US
the astounding fact that fully $50O,0O0,-
by sightseers and tourists.
The fact that the Rocky Mountain
park is situated at the gates of Den
yer and only 80 hours from Chicago
makes it the most accessible of all
the national parks for those seeking
rest and recreation and the splendid
outdoor life which the mountains af.
ford. Hunting will not be allowed il
this park, as it is not in any of the
other national parks, and this protec
ton of the wild animal life will soon
cause the area to become we'll stocked
with many kinds of our four-footed
friends, leading their happy, unmo-
Tested lives. The wild animal life of
this great mountain state is now
hunted from valley to peak and from
peak to valley. The army of sports
men which annually invades even the
most remote portions of Colorado al
lows the deer and the elk and the bear
no peace, no respite; they fee from
one party and run foul of another fu-
sillade of the high-power, smokeless
guns. Surely they will welcome a ref
uge of a quarter of a million acres In
which the terrifying crack of the rifle
and the occasional deadly thud of the
bullet will be no longer heard.
The Rocky Mountain park contains
many lofty mountain peaks from
10000 feet in altitude to over $4,000,
many profound canyons and grassy
valleys, furnishing ideal camping
places, gay with hundreds of species
of mountain flowers, glaciers and gla-
cial lakes, rushing and foaming
streams alive with brisk trout, and wa
terfalls and rapids. OF the beauties of
this region a glimpse Is obtained from
a paragraph Of Chief Geographer Mar
shall's report:
There is no predominant, command
ing national feature in the park" he
states, such as is found in the Crater
Lake, the Yellowstone or the Yosemite
parks, or along the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado. The region as a whole,
however, is as beautiful as any to be
found in the United States, or, indeed,
in the world. There is spread before
the eye a gorgeous assemblage of
wonderful mountain sculpture, sur
rounded by fantastic and ever-chang-
ing clouds, suspended in an apparently
atomless space. At first view, as one
beholds the scenes in awe and amaze
ment, the effect is as of an enormous
painting, vast panorama stretching
away for illimitable distances; gradu-
ally this idea of distance disappears,
the magnificent work of nature seems
to draw nearer and nearer, reduced
apparently by an unseen microscope
to the refinement of delicate cameo
Each view becomes a refined minia-
ture, framed by another more fasci-
mating, the whole presenting an i'm
pressive picture, never to be forgot.
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