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East Oreg-onian Round-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Thursday, September 23, 1915 Glacier National Park is Wonderful Spot Sixty Glaciers In Park Give Name to Region of Great ISeauty. District is Wild and Wan Lon Kemote From Civilization. Tfti J i eautify rroiecx ana n Twenty Page 1 ' Ft Many hundreds, perhaps thous ands, of people who never heard of the Glacier National Park before this spring will visit It this fall. It has been a national park since 1910, but, in a period of utter public lndl ference to the glories of American scenery, it has passed almost unno ticed. Now that America has sud denly become aware that she possess es the most superb accessible scen ery In the world, Glacier Is destined to rapid recognition as the one real Switzerland of America. It is In northwestern Montana, close to the Canadian border line. The park derives Its name from its 60 glaciers; but there are more than tO, all told, if one classes as glaciers many Interesting snow patches of on ly a few acre each, which, neverthe less, exhibit all the characteristics of true glaciers. Its scenery Is striking ly Alpine, yet It possesses Individu ality to a high degree. In rugged ness and sheer grandeur it probably surpasses the Alps, while geological ly It Is markedly different. It strongly differentiates also from other mountain scenery In America, Ice-clad Rainier, mysterious Crater Lake, spouting Yellowstone, exquisite Tosemlte, beautiful Sequoia to each of these and to all other of our na-: tlonal park glacier offers a highly ' Individualized contrast. j Region of Remarkable Iteauty. To define Glacier National Park, ' picture to yourself two approaching chains of vast tumbled mountains which pass the Continental Divide back and forth between them In wormlike twlstlngs, which bear liv ing glaciers In every hollow of their loftiest convolutions, and which break precipitately thousands of feet to lower mountain masses, which In their turn, bear Innumerable lakes of unbelievable calm, offspring of the glaciers above; these lakes In their turn, giving birth to roaring rivers of Icy water, leaping turbulently from level to leved, carving Innumerable sculptured gorges of grandeur and Indescribable beauty. These parallel mountain masses form a central backbone for the na tional park. Their western sides slope from the summit less precipi tately. Their eastern sides break abruptly. It Is on the east that their scenic quality becomes titanic. To really comprehend the person ality of Glacier one must glance back for a moment Into the geological past when the sea or great lakes rolled -over what Is now the northwest of this continent. It was water that de posited the stratified sediments which are now these rocks. I'ntold ages passed, and the sea or lake bottom, under the urge of ter rific force hidden In the interior of the earth, lifted, emerged, and be came land. Untold ages passed, and the land hanrdened Into rocks. And all the time the forces kept pressing together and upward the rocky crusl of the earth. For untold ages this crust held safe. Result of Titanic. Vlieaval. At last the pressure won. The rocks first yielded upward In long Ir regulur wavelike folds. Graduully these folds grew In size. When the rocks could stand the strain no long er, great cracks appeared, and one broken edxe, the western, was thrust upward and over the other. The edge that was thrust over the other was thousands of feet thick. Its sheer beauty by any even of Italy and Switzerland. There are more than 250 lakes In all. How It Was IXseovered, Nor is this scenic wonderland mere ly a sample of the neighborhood. North of the park the Canadian mountains rapidly lose their scenic In terest. Houth and west there is little of greater Interest than the moun tains commonly crossed In a trans continental Journey. To the east lies the plains. This region appears not to have been visited by white men be fore 1S53, when A. W. Tlnkham, a government engineer exploring a route for a Pacific railroad, ascend ed Nyack Creek by mistake and re- it; .a crumbling formed the mountains and the precipices. When It settled the v eslern edse of the break overlapped the eastern edue ten or fifteen miles. This thrusting ef one edge of the burst and split continent over the other 'edge Is called faulting by geo-1 loglsts, and this particular fault Is called the Lewis Overthrust. It Is the overthrust which gives the peculiar character to this amazing country, that and the inconceivable tumbled character of the vast nicy masses ly- j lug crumbling on lis edges. I Thus was formed, In the dim days before man, for the pleasure of the! American enple of today, the Gla- j cler National Park. j Today the visitor finds this the' most wonderful combination of moun-1 tain tops In America, bounded by ver tical walls sometimes 4.000 feet In height diversified by many glistening glaciers and by beautiful timbered! slopes leading down by graceful ; curves to the bottom of deep valleys. Scores of lakes are unsurpassed In traced his steps, when he discovered the impracticability for railroad pur poses of the country he had pene trated. The next explorers were a group or surveyors establishing the Canadian boundary line. This was in 1S61. In 1890 copper ore was found at the head of Quartz Creek and there was a rush of prospectors. The eas: side of the Continental Divide, being part of the Blackfoot Indian reserva tion, was closed to prospectors, and congress was Importuned for relief. In 1M6 this was purchased from the Indians for tl.SO0.000. but not enough copper was found to pay for the min ing. Thereafter It was visited only by big-game hunters and occasional lov ers of scenery. Over sixty thousand head of sheep; and nearly ten thousand head of cat-1 tie and horses grazed In the Umatilla j forest last year, according to the an- nual report of the iupervisor. j Your Home with Lovo Grolliors High Standard r i r i r S (Watch for the little blue H. S. flag.) TT is a great pleasure to know thaf your house is the best looking in the neighbor- Y hood. Besides this pleasure it is a satisfaction to know that your house is well protected from the destructive elements of weather sun, frost and moisture. 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