Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
TELLS
OF WONDERS OF
/. /. BAD LANDS
Medora Man in Good Roads
Magazine Advocates
National Park.

BisnAseh n. d. Juss 3A.- How
many peepie Of Nsrth Dakota realize
that, within n stetA, We have = sec
ton containing aemeAef the most wen-
dAsful scsnsry in the worid!' asks
G. B.. Olsen Of Nsdors, In the North
Dakota Good Roads MaSaxine. AL
most every, nation and q large number
OF our states can hoAst Of wonderful
mountains, and every one Of them
can show you beautiful lDets that
would please and delight any lever
OF nature, but North SDaketa along
the Little Missouri river, rightly takes
pride in the only feAl Bad Lads on
this earth.
Features Of Bad Lands.
'sT,he name was given to this region
not to indicate the worthlenensss OF
the soil, but as being descriptive Of
that Is exactly comparable to the Bad
Lands. In. all things our only stand
ard of value in comparison. The only
comparison ever advanced for the Bad
Lands, by travellers who knew, is to
the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado,
and that only in q general sense, as
they are viewed from the top Of ONT
Of the higher buttes from which
c see on all sides. miles and miles
tain ranges, and haautifi1l little val
ieys. barr4n mufti-coiered CLAW b,ttes.
grassy, thinly wooded creek bottoms,
scorta topped buttes, and wooded river
bottoms. grassy hills and sag brush
flats, rugged rocky buttes, canyons,
washouts, and small plateaus as
as can make them, and every
where. A. every direction IN iarre
patches and small ones, there II the
dark Kreen II our wonderful red ce-
dars, And sometimes, when the sun
set does its best, painting everlast-
inK glory on the mountains Of the
tasfictv oolored hills leave ~ and fine
"a begins The.wonderf1, sunsets of.
tha rerion are rivaled oniv bv IA eer-
r~eo,,snesa az the s,nrisas
Don,e Arree-
"seiertists rarely aHree IN regard ia
the hisfery and Formation Of liz Had
Ianda. Manv theorien are M,rrested.
some claim this to be the Oldest part
of the earth's Surface. Others. that
tensive low level valley, s,rbieet at dif-
feren+ nerinda ~ ares - = co,nt1ea.
nnmber ~ innndaHnns Somatinne
hetween theae fIeod nevtoa. thare was
= eno,,rh fnr = seen1ineiv iron
6 veestation to snrine mn in nnch
!. Abundance "A to form. when the NEXT
nood cnvered + vaTiev With tts de-
posit Of SOL carried down from the
snrro,ndtnr hirher landa. vetns n
cos1 "a nsich ss "a feat th,cS G+her
shorter. Of. lass productive nereds are
evidencedh ~ the iesser Veins If coal:
sonne only 8 few inches ia depth. The
differences II the maKnttude Of these
inundations ts easiiy de4seted by the
different depths 81 soil deposited, and
that they did not originate ia the same
district is cIeariy indicafed hy Inc dif-
fersnt colSrs and composttdSns Of Tie
soils carried down. In the more re-
Cent aees since he opotranhv Of he
NoEh Anoerican continent 80 cham
ed sumcfentiy to disconttnue the flood
period. tie water-shed has directed =
horton 81 the drain over this nart al
North Dakota forminS the Ilttie ms
souri, river and It's tributary creeks. ia
the earlier mart o. this nertod an i'm.
mense rtyer covertne this entire nar1
Of western North ana sont11 nakots
and eastern Montana washed away al