Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-21
NATIONAL PARK
MAY De NAMED
AF TER HARDING
Suggestion Is Made That
the Public ""yground in
New MeAs Be Christ
ened in sss' hdent's Honor

Especial corres { ne to The sorrna'o
Las CruS 4 4, NJ Oct 90
Harding y 5 ial paX Merely
suggestioro . an Appropriate
name fco9 Il public playground
that caj established inv New
Mexico maintained by the fed
eral g ,ment.
II. h. Crook, president ot the
Elephant Butte irrigation district.
who with Attorney Mark B.
Thompson, was In conference with
Secretary of the Interior Fall at
the latter's home a week ago. pre-
sented the park proposal, suS-
gested by Mr.. Fall, at a meeting
of the directors of the Las Cruces
Chamber OF Commerce,
C. f. knight, president, and the
fourteen directors seized upon the
suggestion to organize Southwes-
tern National Park association.
taking in New Mexico, Texas and
Arizona, and interesting the cham
bers of commerce, Rotary and XII
wants clubs and other semi civic
bodies and the people OF the three
states in an enterprise that would
mean much to the country as a
whole and particularly to 'hc
southwest.
Mr.. knight will appoint. early
next week, a committee of seven |
including Mr.. Brook, 10 plan a
preliminary organization.
Presenting the proposal Mr. |
Brook said Mr.. Fall suggested set |
ting aside parts of the Mescalero
Indian reservation and the Lincoln |
forest reserve and joining them
by paved gravel road with Ele- |
phant Butte lake. The plan also |
includes road around the lake. !
the shore line Of which is 200 !
miles. The park roads. he said. !
could be connected with state !
highways.
Secretary Fall enlpasized the |
great need of the rest of the Unit |
ed States to have in the south
west an all-year park" Mr., Brook
added. "He mentioned that the
federal government is spending n
considerable amount of money on
its parks and that some nf 1t could
be nut into n southwestern park
Mr.. Brook said the park as out
lined by Mr.. FALL would present
n series Of scenery, ranging from |
desert to mountain. and afford an |
ideal spot at Elephant Butte lake |
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