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WOODRUFF ONE OF DISCOVERIES OF GLACIER PARK WONDERS
HIS MAMIE SHOULD BE PERPETUATED BY MONUMENT THERE

question of who found the glacier il
Montana"
Writing to the River Press in Sep
TENDER, 1883, Lieutenant Van Ors
dale, with soldierly modesty, mini
mics the importance of his and
Lieutenant Woodruffs discovery, in
sisting that credit be given to Pro-
lessor Pumpelly. But the fact re-
mains that these two officers did
make the discovery and the first re-
port, not only of the glacier, but of
the whole of Glacier national park.
Not one stream, pass, glacier or
mountain has been named after
either of them, and this letter is
written in the hope that a proper
monument be erected to these gal
liant men.
In this connection, it is also well
to enter protest against the chang
ing of Marias pass to Roosevelt pass,
as proposed by the Roosevelt High
way association. If Theodore Roose-
welt were alive today he would be
among the first to protest against
the RELOCATION of the name long as
ISOLATED with this great pass. There
could be no objection, of course, to-
naming the trail Roosevelt trail or
Roosevelt highway, but the name OF
the pass should not be changed A
description of Marias pass appeared
in the River Press of December 5,
1883, and is as follows:
Marias Pass
1.-THE pass through the main ridge
Of the Rocky mountains at the head
waters of the Flathead river on the
west and the Marias on the east has
been explored this summer by Pro-
lessor Pumpelly in the interest of
The northern transcontinental sur
yey. He left the Flathead about 80
niles above the lake and entered the |
gorge walled in by rugged precipices |
thousands of feet high and terminal |
ng in sharp ridges and pointed |
zones. This led up to the summit |
If the pass, where three main can
ons come together and from which |
nay be seen dozen high and rocky
'eaks. About Is miles to the west
vas observed a mass of snow-covered
Mountains on whose side is a living
lacier about a mile in width and
ONE 500 feet of perpendicular
eight, and from beneath which
lows milky-white stream of gla-
Ter water. In the grand canyon in
Thich this glacier lies were observed
falls and cascades over 500 feet
q height and innumerable smaller /
nes.' On the eastern side, in de- il
cending the Marias, the canyon is l.
ounded by the most lofty and s
ugged precipices. The pass is 1900
eet above the level of the sea, and
he scenery is declared to be supe- j
ior to that of the famous Yellow +;
tone"
On August %, 1886, the River |
'ress published the following, evil /
emily copied from the Helena Her /,
Id, under the head of "a New At ]
raction':
1.-THE news seems to be authenti- d
ated that Professor Pumpelly'sl
arty has discovered veritable gla- /
Ter in the vicinity of the upper Mar i
Is pass, about $50 miles north of {
[issoula. The glacier is mile in a
idth and has height of 500 feet s
is in a region full of wild scenery, r
chasms and cascades pro-
ounced by those who have seen 4
9th to be superior in its attractions
J the Yosemite. 1t will be nice
resort before long to make t
camp on Flathead lake, varying
lie sports of fishing and sailing with p
1 excursion to the shadows of the III
aciers and the deep gorges whose s
isty vale the sun transfuses but s