Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
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side including the construction of bridge across
the st. Mary River. extending from ST Mary Chalet
along the north shore OF 81. MARY l-Ae - ~
way both sides Of the Continental Divide, the
Transmountain Road be pushed with more
speed to completion.
And here is glimpse into the future that prom
Uses all kinds of things for Glacier: 1t will be
o1ly short time before the Babb7International
Boundary Road is improved This road runs
through the Blackfeet 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 Banh-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 Transmountain Road completed, Glacier will Of
fer much to automobile tourists. Any car owner in
the United States or Canada can easily reach Gla-
cier either to stay go on. The entire Scenic
West American and Canadian, will be open to him.
When Glacier comes to It's own its attendance
will jump up amazingly And what 1t gains 1t Will
keep, for its visitors hav habit of going back
year after year Glacier has its devotees, just as
have Rocky Mountain ia 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 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 are no Keep Of the Grass signs In Gla-
cier National Park It is the widest part of Amer
lea 1t is perhaps the most unique Of all
our parks, as 1t is undoubtedly the most magnif-
cent Here the Rocky Mountains run north
west and southeast. and in the glacier-carved ba-
sins great spaces; cool, shadowy depths IN
which lie blue lakes mountain-sides threaded with
white where, from some hidden lake glacier
far above, the overflow falls thousand feet or
and over all the great silence OF the Rockies
Here is the last home of vanishing race
the Blackfeet Indians Here is the last stand of
the Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Noun
tain goat; here are elk deer black and grizzly
bears. and mountain lions Here are trails that
follow the old game trails along the mountain
side; here meadows of June roses, forget-me-
not, larkspur, and Indian paintbrush growing be-
side glaciers, snowhelds and trails of beauty to
all the world so insistent to me as the wordless
call Of these mountains 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 deyotees of other 1ational parks sur
rounding Mrs. Rinehart, bawling her out-in per-
fectly polite language, of course-and asking In
unison "How do you get that way MaryT" And
the babel sifted out, interpreted and reduced to
prosaic utterance, would contain these state
ments:
There's nothing in Glacier wilder than are
areas in other parks. Glacier isn't perhaps the
most unique" nor is it undoubtedly the most
magnificent" Other parks have "glacier-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 are
liability rather than asset nasmuch as they
cIo chit o1orfloc fu Tho oar
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 10,438 feet; Rocky Mountain has
4S between 10000 and 1926 feet.
Getting down to the really unique features OF the