Marble Hill press., 1920-05-27

Yellowstone. our oldest nul most famous ua
uuual park-'hc trs' national park 10 The UorIt
never had been .urr"-s play ground tn,
truth 8. IL : Woua,rh"u~e - freak scenery
s,!~'r>. boiling springs. volcanic ,4ru>i'i's aud
the Yellowstone Falls Also IL hus - semi.
tumr~'ioafrd bears anI ~ wonderful ~ game. In
~" "d days q the stag, coach the regulation trip
took tive days After 'hai ~, Tourist was ready
TO leave. And D.. seldom returned in s,v N"
park % second tiw, Now that ~, automobile
ha. taken the place ut %, coach the tine ~ The
regulation trip has been cut In two, otherwise
he sane condition, obtain. The Yellowstone at.
Tendance figures ,,0l the story H. 1913 the
attendance Wa, il.>p'; .u 1919 IL wa, 2i.Ni3; IN
1917 it was 3rIru; Iu lgl. it was p - 90 1919
il was ~ -Gl BY wuy II contrast take thr cor
responding attendance ~ Rocky Mountain Nation.
20 park, which Is play ground park where pco-
ule stay their entire vacation time and there are
thousands ~ regulars who go every year. 81
80 and 1900 and ll71SG and lol .497 and lG9..
igg Rocky mountain has no freak SCENERY, but
is scenic uuguiGr,uce wears well and large
proportion OF H. visitors regard II as their sum.
mor home
In consequence the national park service Is pro-
motitg til, project of adding about thousand
square miles to the south end Of Yellowstone, In
clullug the Teton range. Grand Teton, Mount
Moran. Jackson lake and the Jackson Hole region
and the h,adwairrs Of the yellow stone Tins ad.
Iiton viii give the yellow stone III" Kind OF seen
,ry it lacks Moreover, plans FOR the farther de.
y,lorm,ut of the Yellowstone Include ---le auto
mobile camps golf links tennis courts ana the
couragement Of fishing, mountain climbing and rid.
ing In short. the Yellowstone is 10 be made a
playground sufficiently attractive to hold the tour.
isl for time ana 10 induce him 10 return.
Another example of needed enlargement is Sc
quuia National PARK IN California. This park was
created in 1890 aud contains 30 square miles.
Ii was created largely for the purpose OF preserv-
ing the Big Trees tSeQuola giganteal-the big
gest and oldest living things ON the earth The
General sherman tree. for example. is about 3G
feet in diameter and Is approximately 5co0 years
old Congress with an eye 10 the big trees only,
cut the park boundaries arbitrarily and left out
a magnificenty scenic which lies contiguous.
Features Of this contiguous are the canyons OF
the Kings and Kern rivers and the summit Of
Mount Whitney U4.i0l. the highest mountain in
continental United States. 1t is now purposed to
add about thousand square miles OF this con-
tiguous area to Sequoia and to change It's name
to Roosevelt making the enlarged park a M.
tiona outdoor memorial to the dead statesman
Here again the public playground idea is the basic
proposition
No description do justice to Crater lake
itself Uncle Sam, however, has done n good Job
under the circumstances In a booklet issued last
by the United States railroad administray
ton And this booklet says among other things:
All of our great national Fairgrounds have their
distinctive beauties: each Is different In great
measure In the submity and attractiveness of
its national grandeur. but Crater lake stands
alone In this: that all likeness to any familiar
landscape here censes.
Other lands have their crater lakes-Italy In.
dia and HawaiI-and there are some craters 10 this