The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
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nothing more than establish peace and co-opera-
ton between the Interior and Agricultural depart
ments, it will accomplish much. For ten years
tle Agricultural department has staged the as
tonishing spectacle of campaign both open and
secret to wrest from the Interior department tho
control of the national parks. 1t has set up the
tl"nal forests-established for the purely CONNER
cia purposes of numbering, grazing and forest pro-
tection-as competitors of the national parks In
outdoor recreation. 1t has spert hundreds of thou
s"hus OF dollars in building r3ads and establishing,
centerS for purely recreation purposes The
charse is made that 1t opposes the creation of ma
uohal parks-because national parks usually
taken from national forests. 1t would transfer
the national service bodily from the Interior de
PhrthIent TO the Agricultural department. There
are strong intimations in the tentative program
mat this warfare between the svo departments
VIII be stopped and the question settled There
Is also the further intimation that there NAV be-
established class of recreat.... reservations
possibly under control of u ksud of aGmns-
trative body
The discriminating reader has doubtless noted
that the pictures herewith are something entIre.v
new-photoGraphe of national park scenery from
airpianes Such photography is exceedingly d,f-
fcut and dangerous because of air condltions
among the high peaks The Tetons (about IA Oo.,
feet are in western Wyoming are famous land
marks and are included in the proposed addition
to Yellowstone National park Mount Whitney
G4,JOl feeD is the highest mountain in contlnenta,
United States 1t is in California and is incIudad
in the proposed Roosevelt Sequoa National mark
The photograph of Haeakala III 900 feeD in tbe
Hawaiian National park shows the grea. crater fuI
to the rim of billowing clouds.
But the million and more visitors to the nation
al parks and monuments must still 20 In nv car
and new roads continuously being made for
them small picture shows construction worl,
on the Wind River Canyon highway near Their
mopolis' Wyo., to be opened this senson The
road Is par. of the Yellowstone highway and tho
National Pnrk-to-Park highway 1t Is 13 m,Ies
long 90 per cent of its grading is snId pronite
and the cost is over $5OOOOO
1t would take pages instead of columns to give
oil the national park news. There arc thirteen
bills in congress for the establishment OF new ma
tonal parks. The fitness of Bryce canyon in Utah
has been officially established Secretary Work
mas appointed committee to make an exploratory
survey of the Southern Appalachian mountains
visitors to the national parks in 1923 numbered
l'2Sooso ana TO the national monuments 2l23o6
"a considerable Increase. Rocky Mountain n.
usual, led with 21S,0OO Yellowstone wns seconh
win l3o'oz frvafe automobiles numbered 271 :
4S2. Rocky Mountain had two months of v;n+,-
sports in February and March and many y,s,,nrs
The famous Fall River road III 797 feet oyo-
the "Roof of the World' Will be cleared of snn,
and open for travel June 15 '
The national park revenues for the dsc,, .o..
or lo23 We're S5l3,417. Senator Shortridpe of "a,
norma mas introduced bill providing for their
use III tne parks; they now go into the treosurv
Congress hs just passed a BIZ autborIv,, -,
making OF road budget In the national nurl. ~,
monuments which calls for S7,5oOO 600 70 ba snra,
over threeyear period 'pieao