The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-15

Hum o traffic on the street,
Call O cat burd in the tree,
Roses bloomin' close to me,
Sky is hecked with streaks o. grey,
At the closin' O. the day,
AS the western sun declines,
First star o. the evenin' shines,
Robin warblin' on the gate
Home at eYentide is great.
THE DEACON.
E. E. Meredith, who is travelling
through Indiana this week and returns
to his Chicago office Saturday writes:
81 went through Paramount, Ind, on
the traction. 1t is a pretty little town
with two blocks Of business houses
on each side Of the main drag and sew.
eral blocks Of comfortable looking
homes. It has a daily paper, picture
show and a Chautauqua is advertised
for early in July"
The national park in Alaska which
Congress created last spring is one of
the monster spectacles of the world.
To say that it rises 10000 feet above
sea level, and that it is the Hottest
peak in America is to convey no idea
whatever of its grandeur. There are
several mountains in the Himalayas
which materially exceed its height,
one of which rises more than $4,000
feet above sea level; and yet Mount
Mckinley, to the observer, is lofuer
than any of these.
The reason is that the greatest
Himalayas are seen from valleys
seven to ten. thousand feet in alti-
tude, while Mount Mckinley rises
abruptly from valleys three thousand
feet and even less in altitude. The
visitor to the Mount Mckinley Ma
tional Park will look up more than
seventeen thousand feet to the double
peak, the upper fourteen thousand
feet of which are covered with per-
petual snow.
This enormous mass is the climax
of the great Alaskan Range which ex-
tends roughly east and west across
southeast central Alaska, separating
the vast northern inland from the
more populated country whose shores
are the Gulf of Alaska. The range
parallels the mighty Yukon many
miles to the south.
The reservation contains 1900
square miles. Its northern slopes,
which overlook the Tanana water
shed with its gold mining industry,
are broad valleys inhabited by enor-
nous herds of caribou. It's southern
plateau is a perpetual winter wilder
ness through which glaciers of great
length and neormous bulk flow into
the valleys of the south. In this ma
tional park, which the railroad now
building by the Government into the
Alaskan interior will open presently
to the public, America possesses AL
pine scenery upon a titanic scale.
From the stormy south, MOUNT Nc
Kinley IS wholly inaccessible. But
from the plains of the north, valleys
of easy grade lead one from another
to its foot.
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massive mountains and ice-capped |
peaks" Belmore Browne, of the
Camp Fire Club, testified before the !
Senate Committee on Territories.
1.-The Piedmont Plateau that follows
the range affords beautiful roadway |
direct to Mount Mckinley. and when
you reach the plateau all difficulties
vanish and you see view that is
unique on this earth. You see the
huge mountain line of perpetual
snow, rising like great wall on the
southeast. You can ride pony to
where Mount Mckinley rises seven
teen thousand feet above you in a
wall OF snow and ice. 1t is
fanked by stupendous mountains
which make wonderful setting for
the monster"
North of the vast mountain, how
ever, is a rolling country dotted with |
beautiful lakes and forests and in
habited by enormous herds of carl