The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-31

this fall t1s2s). Also contract has been let Tor
the construction of eight nine miles. on the east
sae b 81 a tns from on St MaTy Chalet
along the north shore of St Mary Lake toward Co
way on both sides of the Continental Divide. the
Transmountain Road can be pushed with more
speed to completion.
And here is n glimpse into the future that prom
ises all kinds of things for Glacier: 1t will be
Only short time before the Babb-International
Boundary Road is improved This road runs
through the Blackfeet Indian reservation adJoin-
ing Glacier the east and will connect with the
Canadian National parks highway system. The
National Parkto-Park Highway, which connects
all the western national parks, is In full operation
md getting better every season. The Banf-Win-
dermere Highway across the Canadian Rockies,
opened last year, makes direct connection with
the National Park-to-Park Highway at Spokane
Wash
With the Babb international Boundary Road and
the Transmountan 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 or go The entire Scenic
West, American and Canadian, will be open to him.
When Glacier comes to its own, its attendance
will jump up amazingly. And what 1t gains 1t Will
keep, for its visitors have habit of going back
year after year. Glacier has Its devotees, just as
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.
door woman, novelist and nature wrter-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:
cier National Park. 1t is the widest part of Amer
our parks as 1t is undoubtedly the most magnh-
cent Here the Rocky Mountains run north
west and southeast in the glacier carved ba-
spaces; cool. shadowy depths IN
which blue lakes; mountain sides threaded with
far above, the overflow falls thousand feet
more and over all the great silence of the Rockies
the Blackfeet Indians Here is the last stand of
tain goat; here are elk deer black ana grizzly
bears. and mountain lions. Here are trails that
side: meadows of June roses forget-me-
not. larkspur. and Indian paintbrush growing be-
side glaciers, snowfelds and trails of beauty to
all the world SO insistent to me as the wordess
call of these mountains I shall go back Those
who go once always hope to go back The lure of
the great free spaces is in their blood
One can imagine without the slightest difficulty
throng of devotees of other national parks
rounding Mrs. Rinehart bawling her out-in per-
fectly polite language of course-and asking In
unison: How do you get that way, Mary?" And
the babel, slfted out interpreted and reduced to
prosaic utterance, would contain these state
ments:
There's nothing in Glacier wilder than
In other parks Glacier Isn't perhaps the
most unique nor is 1t Undoubtedly the most
magnificent" Other parks have "gacier-carved
basins" lakes, glaciers falls. wild animals and
flowers. Yellowstone beats all the parks-except
possibly Mount McKinley-for wild animal life.
Rocky Mountain probably has more mountain
sheep than Glacier. Mount Rainier Is the cham
pion "Wild Flower Park" The Blackfeet
liability rather than asset, inasmuch as they
slaughter relentlessly the park game that strays
into their reservation the big game on the east
side of the Continental Divide is gradually being
hftbn foir Mnnnt
Cleveland is only 10,43S feet; Rocky Mountain has
43 between 10000 and IA 255 feet
Getting down to the really unique features Of the