The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-06-23

On Thursday afternoon the scout
executive started southward in his
new 1gl3smodel .INord. to*complate ar
rangementHlf3l the boy scout camp
site. iilt
En- route he was overtaken by the
rain and had to fight for every inch
of progress as he crawled and climb
ed down and up to hte clay ridges
that, through courtesy, are designat-
ment with the consciousness that he
had passed every car coming this
way
After car refreshments While
mounting to continue his journey
the executive felt a persuasive pull
on his rubber ulster and turning was
surprised to see the scholastic fea-
lures of the junior high school prin-
cipal, j. F. Hatcher and the genial
countenance of NJ. H. Sheppard.
These gentlemen III company with
T. r. Montgomery, city superintend-
ent of schools, were en- route to
Medicine park, and had stopped, not
for car refreshments but for car re-
pairs.
The last seen of this triple alliance
of scholastic powers was at Fletch-
en- garage the next morning, the Hup-
mobile was again undergoing repairs;
and expensive experience which the
Ford had to pass through the latter
part of the day.
On reaching Cache, about noon,
the Ford was placed in a blacksmith
shop for reconstruction and the ex-
ecutive "hked' out to the prospec-
tive camp Site
At this place nature is most prodi-
gal with her charms, displaying them
in multiplied and multiform arrange
ment. Mountains may be higher;
canyons deeper, streams larger and
plains broader, but for infinite va
riety, picturesque beauty and inde-
finable mystery the Forest reserve
park may rightly be classed as the
incomplete wonderland of the middle
west
On the border of this land of mys-
terry will be established the camp or
the Chickasha boy scouts. Very near
the camp site is the spring protect 4
ed by a wall from defilement; its .
clear. cool waters bubbling through .
the sand bank near the creek. But
a short distance away is the camp
plateau with its gentle slope, dotted
with an occasional tree and partly
surmounted by forest which mas
for a background the cliff and noun
tain heights.
Then there is the creek with its
shadows and pools of varying depths
suited for bathing and fishing, whlle
not far distant, up the valley, is
Canyon Lake, nearly half a mile IN
length, confined by towering can
Won wall on the one side and on the
other a mountains rock slope, seem
ingly the ideal fishing place of Okla
homa.
Near here are the mysteries of the
Forest reserve park, any part OF
which may be reached by one-day
hike" Catch the significance OF
these names and you will understand
in measure, the mystery Of this
place of natural wonders. There is
.ost lake. Bat cave mountain, Phan-
tom hin. Styx canyon and Chorus
Garden.
Throughout the reservation, roam
ing at will and unmolested are many
wild animals, their hiding and reed
ing 'places being designed as follows
buffalo gap, Moose canyon Black
hear and Elk mountains, Turkey
mass. Gray Wolf crossing, Panther
ereek I,obo flat, Deer Lick and Wild
Horse canyon.
In the very center OF this wohuer-
land is the home of Frank Rush, VINO
has charge of the Forest reserve
mark His home is at Buffalo mead
quarters and any troop OF scouts Wis
itnig headquarters are assureu d
welcome from Mrs'
Rush.
The scout executive met Mr. anu
AIRS Rush who accorded him most
cordial greeting supplemented WIN
an inyitation to visit the park ana
camp and roam at will with but one
that the scouts 40 no'
dunlicate. the act of the Father OF o"i
Country and chop down or disiieure
inc trees With their little hatcnels'
hnt if they must test their niue
batchets. they may do so on the Oalo
crest of Granite mountain
.;,o "hiker is the fourth