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this fall (ls2s) Also a contract hns been let for
side. Including the construction of bridge aero-.
the st Mary River extending from 81. Mary Chalet
ing-to the Sun Chalet With construction under
way on both sides of the Continental Divide. the
Transmountan Road be pushed with more
speed to completion.
And here is glimpse into the future that prom
ises all kinds of things for Glacier: II will be
oaly short time before the Babb-Internatonal
Boundary Road Is improved. This road
through the Backfeet Indian reservation adjoin-
ing Glacier on the east and will connect with the
Canadian National parks highway system The
National Park-to-Park Highway, which connects
all the western national parks. is in full operation
and getting better every season. The Banif-Win-
dermere Highway across the Canadian Rockies
opened last year makes direct connection with
the National Park-toPark Highway at Spokane
Wash.
With the Babb-International Boundary Road and
the Transmountain Road completed Glacier will of
fer much to automobile tourists. Any car owner in
the United States or Canada can easily reach Gla-
cler, either to stay 20 The entire Scenic
West, Amercal and Canadian, will be open to him.
When Glacier comes to its own, its attendance
will jump up amazingly And what it gains it will
keep, for its visitors have habit of going back
year after year Glacier has its devotees. just
have Rocky Mountain in Colorado and Yosemite
in California Yellowstone, Oldest biggest and
most famous of all 10 national parks, has been
lacking in this to date.
Take Mary Roberts Rnehart-nature lover out
door womanh novelist and nature writer-shes.an
example. She has been much in Glacier. And
here is the way Glacier got her. Her enthusiasm
induced her to write an appreciation of Glacier"
for publicity purposes. And here's what she says
in part:
There Keep on the Grass" signs In Gla-
cer National Park 1t is the widest part Amer
lea. 1t is perhaps the most unique of all
our parks. as it is undoubtedly the most magnih-
cent. Here the Rocky Mountains run north
St. n he oil lnrta rN.all
sins are great spaces: cool shadowy depths in
which lie blue lakes; mountain-sides threaded with
white. where. from hidden lake or glacier
far above, the overflow falls a thousand feet or
more and over all the great silence Rockies
Here is the last home vanishing race
the Blackfeet Indians. Here is the last stand Of
the Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Moun
tain goat: here are elk deer black and rrizzlv
bears and mountain lions Here trails that
follow the old trails along the mountair
side; here are meadows of June roses forget-me
nHt, ,n iarkspur' and Indian paintbrush growing
sue siaclers. showhelds and trails of beauty to
all the world nsistent to me as the wordIesa m
who go once always hope to go back The lure %,
the great free spaces is in their blood -
one can Imagine without the slightest difficulty
tbrons OF devotees of other national parks sur
rounding Mrs. Rinehart, bawling her out-n ner
lectiy polite language, of course-and asking in
unison: How do you get that way Marv9, And
the oabei sifted out, Interpreted and reduced to
prosaic utterance, would contain these state
ments:
there's nothing In Glacier wilder than are
areas In othar parks. Glacier isn't 'perbons tho
most unique, nor is 1t Undoubtedly the most
magnificent" Other parks have "placier.c,rved
basins lakes. glaciers, falls. wild animals and
lowers Yellowstone beats all the parks-excent
possibly Mount McKinley-for wild animal life
Rocky Mountain probably has more mountat,
sheep than Glacier. Mount Rainier is the cbom
pion wild Flower Park" The RIacl,feet oro =
liability rather than an asset inasmuch as they
slaughter relentessly the park game that stravs
into their reservation; the big game on the east
side of the Continental Divide Is gradually being
wiped out. Glaciers highest mountain, Mount
Cleveland is only 10,43s feet; Rocky Mountain has
43 between 10000 and 44,255 feet
Getting down to the really unique features of tbo