The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-05-30
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the construction of eight or nine miles on the east
the St Mary River, extending from St Mary Chalet
along the north shore of ST. Mary Lake TOWARD TO
ng-to-the-sun Chalet with construction under
way both sides of the Continental Divide. the
Transmountain Road can be pushed with more
speed to completion
And here is glimpse into the future that prom
ises all kinds of things for Glacier: It will be
olly a short time before the Babb-Internatlonai
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 Bann-Wn-
dermere Highway 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-
cier, either to stay go on. 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 II Colorado and Yosemite
in California. Yellowstone, oldest, biggest and
most famous of all our 10 national parks has been
lacking in this to date
Take Mary Roberts Rinehart-nature lover, out
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 Appreciation of Glacier
for publicity purposes. And here's what she says.
in part:
There are no Keep on the Grass" signs in Gla-
cier National Park 1t is the widest part of Amer
lea 1t is perhaps the most unique of all
our parks as it is undoubtedly the most magnif-
cent Here the Rocky Mountains north
west and southeast. and in the glacier-carved ba-
sins are 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 a thousand feet or
more and all the great silence of the Rockies
Here is the last home of vanishing
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
follow the old game trails along the mountain
side; here meadows of June roses, forget-me-
not larkspur and Indian paintbrush growing he
side glaciers. snowhelds and trails of beauty to
make you gasp. But there is voice in
all the world so insstent to me as the wordless
call of these mountains. shall go back Those
who 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 sur
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, 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
basns."' lakes. glaciers, falls wild animals and
flowers. Yellowstone beats all the parks-except
possibly Mount McKney-for wild animal life
Rocky Mountain probably has more mountafa
sheep than Glacier. Mount Rainier is the cham
pion wild Flower Park" The Blackfeet are
liability rather than asset. inasmuch as they
slaughter reentlessly the park game that strays
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 1925 feet
Getting down 70 the really unique features of the