The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-09-14
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
is ANOTHER ALPS
Formed, in Dim Ages Before Man, by
Shrinking of Earth's Skin. Titanic
Crumbling of Overlapping Edge Carved
REALISTICALLY Afterwards by Glacier and
Stream.

| Many hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of people who never heard of the Ola
cier National Park before this spring
will visit 1t this summer. It has
| been National Park since 1910, but
in period of utter public indiffer.
ence to the glories of American seen
cry, 1t has passed almost unnoticed
Now that America has suddenly be-
come aware that she possesses the
most superb accessible scenery in
! iorld, Glacier is destined to rapid
| ecognition as the one real Switzer-
and of America. 1t is in northwest
IN Montana, close to the Canadian
order line.
The Park derives its name from its
| glaciers; but there are more than
0 all told, If one classes as glaciers
many interesting snow patches OF
My few acres each, which, never
heless. exhibit ali the characteristics
| { true glaciers. Its scenery is strik-
| DIV Anime vot ~ nossesses ir1i"i1.
uality to a high degree. In rugged
ness and sheer grandeur 1t probably
surpasses the Alps, while geological
ly 1t is markedly different.
1t strongly differentiates also from
other mountain scenery in America.
Ice clad Rainier, mysterious Crater
Lake, spouting Yellowstone, exquisite
Yosemite, beautiful Sequoia-to each
! of these and to all other of our Ma
tional Parks Glacier offers a highly
individualized contrast.
Region Of Remarkable Beauty
To define Glacier National Park,
picture to yourself two approaching
chains of vast tumbled mountains
which pass the Continental Divide
back and forth, between them in
wormlike twistings, which bear living
glaciers in every hollow Of their loft
lest c0pvolutions. and which break
pTecipitately thousands of feet to
I DNST mountain ihdSoSS, WHICH, III
their turn, bear innumerable lakes Of
unbelievable calm, offspring Of the
glaciers above; these lakes, In their
turn, giving birth to roaring rivers
of icy water, leaping turbulently from
level to level, carving innumerable
sculptured gorges of grandeur and
Understandable beauty.
These parallel mountain masses
form a central backbone for the Ma
tional Park. Their western sides
slope from the summit less precipi.
lately. Their eastern sides break
ABRUPTLY. 1t Is on the east that their
scenic quality becomes titanic.
To really comprehend the person
ality OF Glacier one must glance back
for a moment into the geological past
when the sea or great lakes rolled
over what is now the northwest OF
this continent. 1t was water that de
posted the stratifed sediments that
are now these rocks.
Untold ages passed, and the sea
CT lake bottom, under the urge o.
terrific forces hidden in the interior
p OF the earth, lifted, emerged, and be
came land. Untold ages passed, ant
the land hardened into rocks. Ant
all the time the forces kept pressing
together and upward the rocky ores
OF the earth. For untold ages thi
crust held safe.
Result Of Titanic Upheaval
At last the pressure won. TIL,
rocks first yielded upward in long II
regular wavelike folds. Gradually tn
? folds grew in size. When the rock
e could stand the strain no longer, grea
Il cracks appeared, and one broken edg
the western, was thrust upward an
over the other. The edge that wa
e thrust over the other was thousand
n OF feet thick. Its crumbling forme
Il the mountains and the precipices.
t. When it settled the western edg
OF this break overlapped the easter
edge ten or fifteen miles.
y This thrusting Of one edge OF III
IS burst and split continent over tn
lie other edge is called fauting by geo
lg ogists and this particular fault
Ip called the Lewis Overthrust. 1t
the Oyerthrust which gives the p,
culiar character to this amazing cou
rs try, that and the inconceivably tun
rs bled character Of the vast rocky mas
nd es lying crumbling on its edges.
re Thus was formed, In the dim day
lg before man, for the pleasure Of tn
American people OF today the Glacie
National Park,
5e Today the visitor finds this tn
re most wonderful combination OF mour
tain tops In America, bounded by vel
tical walls sometimes 1000 feet hig