The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 12, 1927 Page: 2 of 8
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THE NATIONAL PARKS AT A GLANCE.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
AJDB any plans yet for
your summer vacation?
If you haven't, how about
deciding to spend It In
one of the pubJie play-
grounds, state or na-
tional, which are at your
service? President Cool-
idge has set the example
for his fellow-Americans
by selecting one of them,
Ouster state park In
South Dakota, as the site
Of his, and the state game lodge, a
handsome three-story, SO-room struc-
ture of Swiss chalet style, nestled in
a beautiful valley, surrounded by
mountain crags and with a cheerful
little trout stream murmuring along
at its foot will be the summer White
House,
Of course, not all of*'us can have
the exclusive use of such an attrac-
tive place as this. But how about
deciding to spend your vacation In
some one of the 10 national parks
which Uncle Sam maintains for you
and to which he has already issued
his annual Invitation for you to pay
a visit? The invitation comes to you
over the signature of Stephen P.
Mather, director of the National Park
service. But they are not Mr. Math-
er's parks. Nor are they Uncle Sam's
parks. They are YOUR national
parks. Uncle Sam and Mr. Mather
are Just the custodians who have
Charge of them and whose business
It Is to see to it that your enjoyment
of your own property may be had to
the fullest extent if you will make
the most of the opportunity.
Is It hiking, mountain-climbing or
camping that you want? Is it fishing
or camera-hunting (bunting with guns,
of course, is out of the question, but
If your weapon is a camera anil your
ammunition « roll of films you will
hurt neither the animals nor another
hunter nor yourself) that you most
desire? Or Is it scenery, glimpses of
magnificent distances, of snow-capped
mountain peaks, of volcanoes, of
glaciers, of all the other natural won-
ders and beauties in a virgin wilder-
ness that your heart longs for? If it
Is any of these you can easily satisfy
your desires. Over on the right you
will see a page from a national park
service pamphlet which will give you
"The National Park at a Glance."
Look at it and you can see where to
go to get those things you wish for.
But you do not have to limit your
oholce to the attractions of the 19 na-
tional parks. In addition to them there
are 32 national monuments which of-
fer eaually Inviting glimpses of natu-
ral wonders and natural beauties.
They are the following:
Devil's Tower, Wyo.: Montezuma
Castle, Ariz.: Petrified Forest, Ariz.:
El Morro, N. M.: Chaco Canyon, N. M.;
Mulr Woods, Calif.: Natural Brldsre,
Utah; I ewls and Clark Cavern, Mont.:
Tumaoacorl, Ariz.: Shoshone Cavern,
Wyo.; Gran Qulvlra, If. M.; Katmal,
Glacier Bay and Sitka, Alaska: Rain-
how Bridge, Utah; Pinnacles. Calif.:
Colorado, Colo.; Papasro Saguaro, Ariz,;
Capulln Mountain, N. ML; Dinosaur,
Utah; Verendrye, N. D.: Casa Grande,
Ariz.: Scott's BlulT,.Neb.; Yucoa House,
Colo.: Fossil Cycad, S. D.; Carlsbad
(limestone) Gave, N. M.; Aztec Ruin.
N M.; Hovensweep, Utah-Colo.; Pipe
Springs, Ariz.; Craters of the Moon.
Idaho, and Wupatkl, Aria.
If you enjoy visiting historic places
there are also seven national military
and other parks and nine other na-
tional monuments under the Jurisdic-
tion of the secretary of war. The
parks are: Chickamauga and Chat-
tanooga, da. and Tenn,; Sliiloh, Teun.; 2
(Number, 10; total area, 11,372 square mile!.]
National parte In
order of creation.
Location.
Area In
square
miles.
Distinctive characteristics.
1832
Middle Arkansas
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40 hot springs possessing curative properties—Many
hotels and boarding houses— 20 Bathhouses under
public control.
1872
North western Wyo-
8,348
More geysers than In all rest or world together-
Boiling springs—Mud volcanoes—Petrified for-
ests—Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, remark-
able for gorgeous coloring—Large lakos—Many
large streams and waterfalls—VWst wilderness,
greatest wild bird and animal preserve in world—
Exceptional trout fishing.
Middle eastern Cell*
2M
The Big Tree National Park—Several hundred
aequoia trees over 10 feet in diameter, some 25
to 30 feet In diameter—Towering mountain
ranges—Startling precipices—Mile-long cave of
delicate beauty.
1800
ioxaia.
Middle eastern Cali-
1,125
Valley of world-famed beauty—Lofty cliffs—Ro-
mantic vistas—Many waterfalls of extraordinary
hoight—3 groves of big trees—High Sierra—
Waterwhoel falls—Good trout fljhlng.
1890
fornia.
General Orant
1800
Middle eastern Cali-
fornia.
4
Created to proserve the celebrated General Grant
Tree, 35 feet In diameter—S miles from SequoUk
National Park.
Mount Rainier...
1889
West central .Wash-
ington.
124
Largest accessible single peak glacier system—28
glaciers, soma of large alio—48 square miles of
glacier, 50 to 500 toet thick—Wonderful subaiplna
wild flower fields.
1002
Southwestern Oregon.
£49
Lake of otrtraordlnary blue In crater of extinct
volcano—Sides 1,000 foet high—Interesting lavs
formations—1'lne fishing.
Wind Cave.......
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Cavem having many miles of galleries and numer-
ous chambers containing peculiar formations.
1003
Piatt
Southern Oklahoma...
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Many sulphur and other springs possessing medio-
Inal value.
190t
Btillys Hill
North Dakota .....
1}
Small park with woods, streams, and a lake—Is an
Important wild animal preserve.
1004
Mesa Verde
1900
Southwestern Colo-
rado.
77
Most notable and best preserved prehistoric cliff
dwellings in United States, 11 not in the world.
Northwestern Mon-
1,634
Rugged mountain region ef unsurpassed Alpine
character—250 glaoler-fed lakes of romantic
beauty—60 small glaciers—Prealpices thousands
of foot deep—Almost sensational scenery of
marked individuality—Fine trout fishing.
1010
tana.
Rocky Mountain.
1016
North middle Colo-
rado.
897J
Heart of the Rookies—Snowy range, peaks 11,000
to 14,255 feet altitude— Remarkable records of
glacial period.
ISO
Three soparat© areas—Kllauoa and Mntrna Loa on
Hawaii, Haloakala on Maui.
1910
Lassen Volcanic..
1010
Northern California...
124
Only active volcano In United States proper—
Lassen Peak, 10,405 foot—Ctndor Cone 0,379
feet—Hot Springs—Mud goysers.
Mount McKlnley.
101-
South central Alaska..
2,845
Highest mountain In North America—Rises higher
above surrounding country than any ether moun-
tain In tho world.
Grand Canyon....
1019
North central Arizona.
958
The greatest example of erosion and the most sub-
ltmo spectacle in the world.
Malno ooast...........
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The group of granite mountains upon Mount Desert
Island.
1019
Zlom
Southwestern Utah...
129
Magnificent gorge (Zlon Canyon), depth from 800
to 2,000 feet, with precipitous walls—Of great
beauty and scenia interest.
1919
Gettysburg, Pa.; Vlclcsburg, Miss.;
Aiitietam Battlefield, Md.; Lincoln's
Birthplace, Ky.; and Guilford Court
House, N. C. The monuments arc:
Big Hole Battlefield. Mont; Cabrlllo,
Calif.; Mound City group, Ohio; Fort
Wood, N. Y. (site of the Statae of Lib-
erty) ; Castle Plnckney, 8. C.; Fort
Pulaski, Ga.; Fort Marlon, Fla.; Fort
Matanzas, Fla., and Merlweather
Lewis, Tenn.
And If you still want some place to
go for recreation there are something
like 600 state parks In 43 states with
an area of 7,000,000 acres, conserving
scenery, wild life, historical and scien-
tific sites. At least that is the report
which came from the delegates to the
seventh national conference on state
parks at a recent meeting at Bear
Mountain, Palisudes Inter-State park
In New York. So It would seem that
with this grand total of more than 650
public playgrounds, America will not
find It difficult to satisfy Its longing
for an occasional excusioh Into the
life of the great outdoors. Judging
from the records of last year, they are
taking full advantage of the oppor-
tunity. More than 2,800,000 visitors,
the greatest number yet on record,
registered at the 10 national parks
and the 82 national monuments In
1026. The fees paid by them enriched
Uncle Sain (that is to say, they took
the money out of one pocket and put
It Into another) by approximately
$826,500. Of course there Is Just ae
reason why Americans to that number
were able to set a new record in the
matter of visits to THI2IR national
parks. Last summer 36,000,000 per-
sons used 9,000,000 autos In which W
go motor-gypsylng. Three million,
three hundred thousand of them car-
ried camping equipment and these pur-
suers of the open trail spent the stag-
gering sum of $3,325,000,000 en route.
This year, It Is estimated that 40,000,-
000 persons or one-third of the na-
tion's entire population will set forth
to see what they can see. Uncle Sam
has got the national parks ready for
this ten per cent Increase In visitors.
One Important fact about YOUR na-
tional parks Is that they are not only
playgrounds, places for recreation, but
that they are rapidly becoming great
universities, places for education,
where In the words of Hubert Work,
secretary of the Interior, the depart-
ment which has control over the
parks, "Nature Is the supreme teacher
as well as the master textbook." Ac-
cordingly the National park service
has embarked upon an educational
program by making use of these nat-
ural laboratories.
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Giant motion pictures on the clouds
Is the aim of experimenters with pro-
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cently at Jena they threw still pic-
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came out witli great clearness.
Stern Position
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 12, 1927, newspaper, July 12, 1927; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340764/m1/2/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.