Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-01
ADOPTS ALASKA NAMES, DECISION
 OF WASHINGTON
UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD APPROVES SOCIETY'S
 SELECTIONS
Number of Men Honored
Mountains, Lake and Falls Explored In Region of katmai Ma
 tionaI Monument.

The decision announced by the United States Geographic Board after its last meetings of the summer in- clude the adoption for use on all names bestowed by Dr. Robert F. Griggs, leader of the National Geo. graphic Society's Alaska expeditions on natural features explored and sur veyed in the Katmai national monu- ment region.
 These names, which have already appeared on the maps published by the National Geographic Society but which now are to appear for the first time on government maps of Alaska, are: Lake Grosvenor, Lake Coville, Mount LaGorce, Bay of Islands, Brooks Falls, Lake Brooks, Fultons Falls, Hagelbargers Pass, Martin Creek and Mount Martin.
 Two Noteworthy Lakes.
 Lake Grosvenor and Lake Coville, named for pr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, and for Dr. Frederick V. Coville, chairman of the society's re- search committee, ,ie to the north east C. the katmai Mo, "1nont.
 Lake Grosvenor is twentyeight mil hod y surveyors as the most beautiful body of wa;er in this part Of ;1- Alaska peninsula. It is shut Tn on all sides by high, forest-clad mountains, but may be reached by an easy portage of a mile and 8 half from Sayonoski River, which flows into Iliuk Arm.
 Lake Coville is also surrounded by mountains which rise to 5000 feet It is connected with Lake Grosyenor by a short, swift stream.
 Mount LaGorce, named in honor of John Oliver LaGorce, vice president of theNational Geographic Society, is on imposing peak rising to a height of 3,315 feet just within the limits of the Katmai National Monument, and overlooking Iliuk Arm to the South, Bay of Islands to the North and Lake Grosvenor to the East.
 Studded with Granite lsIets.
 Bay of Islands is an arm of Naknek Lake, lying to the north of Katmai National Monument It is a beautiful body of water studded with more than one hundred forest-clad granite islets.
 Lake Brooks lies to the south of Naknek Lake and is separated from the latter by high mountain. It drains into Naknek by short swift river, which tumbles over ledge about seven feet high, form ing Brooks Falls It was at this fall that members of one of the society's expeditions observed the salmon leaping upstream, over the ledge at the rate of 1900 an hour. It was estimated that a million fish were breeding above the falls. Both the lake and the falls are named in honor of the late Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, chief Alaskan geologist of the United States Geological Survey, and a pioneer in Alaska explora ton.
 Fultons Falls, which occur on tributary of Katmai River, have been so named in recognition of the work of Bentley B. Fulton, entomol- ogist of the Oregon Agricultural College, at Corvallis. Mr. Fulton, formerly student under Dr. Robert F. Griggs, did especially valuable work during the season of 1915.
 Found Geographic Harbor Route
 Hagelbargers Pass was found by Paul R. Hagelbarger, who was a member of the 1917, 1918 and 1919 expeditions. In 1919 Dr. Grigs de- tailed him to try to find a feasible route from Geographic Harbor (the natural haven for future yisitors) to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. He and one companion no only found the pass, which now bears his name, at an elevation of 1000 feet), but with William N. fleming sur yeyed all of the peninsula lying be- tween Geographic Harbor and Kinak