The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-02
STATE PLACES
POWER BEHIND
PARK PROJECT
Governor NestOs Designates
Board of Memorial Park
Commission
LII INCORPORATE
WILL
Active Campaign Planned for
Creation of Roosevelt
National Park

As a sequence of the meeting Of
the board of directors Of the Roose-
welt Memorial National Park associa-
tion here yesterday Governor Nestos
today designated the directors Of
the association a state park commits
sion in order that it may be general
ly known the state of North Dakota
officially indorses the project Of a
great national park in the Bad
Lands to commemorate the memory of
the great American citizen who made
that wonderful region famous. The
members of the Park Commission
named by the governor follows: DR.. A.
H. Yoder, Grand Forks; Walter j.
Johnson, Marmarth; Carl B. Olsen,
Medora; Walter G. Black, Bismarck;
Ed. E. Fredeen, Ryden, B. A. Dickin-
son, Minot; Walter F. Gushing, Beach.
In a few days Governor Nestos
will appoint an advisory committee
of one from each county Of the state
and several at large to cooperate with
the park board of directors in putting
over the project for the Roosevelt
National park.
The officers of the Roosevelt Me-
mortal Park association are: w. F.
Gushing, president; DIR. 4. H. Yoder.
vice president; Ed. f. Fredeen, Sc
cretary, B. A. Dickinson, treasurer.
Plans For Campaign
At the meeting of the board Mon
day afternoon at the governors Of
flee active steps are taken to get in
to motion the work Of getting con-
gress to create this national park.
The board recognized the magnitude
Of the work, but spurred on by the
enthusiasm for the project hat
seems extant all over the state, got
down to work in earnest.
1t was decided to incorporate the
organization and articles as non
profit sharing incorporation will be
filed with the secretary of state to-
day. 1t was also decided to urge
October q, Col. Roosevelt's birth
day, as an occasion for observance in
the public schools of the state, in
which effort the aid Of county
superintendents will be sought.
At that time drive for
funds to carry on the work of the
association will be made with the
aid of the advisory committee, it be-
ing believed there will be little diff
ficulty in raising the small sum de-
sired for the work of the association
in making the necessary surveys,
plats and securing the statistics and
data Congress will require before
that body will act.
To Give Certificates
Handsome souvenir certificates of
membership will be given each sub
scriber, the fee being placed at a
minimum of one dollar, while large
contributions, Of course will be glad
ly received.
At once preliminary survey will
be made Of the territory by
residents of it, which field notes
will be sent to the state engineers
Office and whipped into shape as a
basis of a survey to be made this
fall by Mr.. Blacks office force, as
sisted by engineers from the 500
Line, Northern Pacific and Milwaukee
railroads, which are very much inter-
ested in the development of this
park, if those lines care to take part
in this feature Of the pioneer work,
as has been suggested to or by them.
A bill for the creation of the
Roosevelt National Park" is now
before the Public Lands committee
Of the House, but this covers but a
small part Of the proposed park as
now conceived, which will include a
territory reaching along the Little
Missouri river from Marmarth to the
Fort Berthold Indian reservation and
probably taking in the Killdeer
mountains, and including most of the
wonderful features of that wonder
land, few of which have been view
cd by those not living in that region.