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'; 4. ttr 1 r POTFi KTOTTT -r ymnFOKD matt; trtptto, metyfohp. nurcw. wkpxkkpa y, .tanuaky i. min. w rw - - 33 AUTOMOBILES CONVEY VISITING GEOGRAPHERS FROM MEDFORD TO CRATER LAKE 1 ym "i B thttIv 4 t j ni" rNMRVVE b jrfWfcKi . lJP rfrf, 4S i JLrfi s jUiifWP 9n 3fL8J '.c3tu rRaiH. Famous Scientists See Crater Lakef In September. 1912, tho Medford roiniiiorclal club entertained the American Geographical society by arranging a trip by automobile from tills city to Crater Iakt. Tho affair wit a succesn throughout the seven ty visiting scIontlstH from all tortious of the globo being taken 8; miles mill return without mishap. ThU tllil moro to advertise Crater Lak than any other ono thing, tho vis itors being most enthusiastic re garding the lake and the courtesy of the Medfonl business men. W. M. Ials. professor of geology nt Har vard, director of the excursion, said: "Thin excursion to Crater I.ako ar ranged by the Medfonl Commercial club Is the biggest, most successful and altogether delightful experience wo havo had since wo left New York The foreign members of our jiurty de clare that such an excursion could not be imlled off by any nation In J the world outsido or America while tho Americans In our party declare that hucIi an entertainment could not have been arranged oast of tho Miss issippi river. It Is absolutely the best tiling wo have run up against no fur and wu 'appreciate It. Critter Luke Wonderful "Ah for Crater Lake," continued Professor Davis," it is absolutely without a peer in point of bouuty. Some of the most prominent members of our party from foreign lands ex prebsed themsolvcs emphatically to t hut effect. All unite in praising the beauty of tho lako and declare that it v. Ill eventually bo tho means of thousands of tourists who travel slm plj to sco tho beautiful us expressed -by nature. "Wo favor tho building of a na tional highway to tho Crater Lake na tional park mid our society will work toward that end. Foreign societies represented in our party will also loud their influouce. Cruter Lake Is too grpat, too womlorftil, not to bo one of tho world's great highways. "Put what I havo to say In your largest and blackest type. You can not convey my onthubtasm In any other milliner." Thirty-one autos wero volunteered foe the oxcurslrjii, mid all readied the lake on miliodulu time. An Iioiii'h sop wan nmilo nt Prospect where lunch wiih served by the ladles of Prospect. (Heat tables fairly groaned iiuder'tho piles of good things to eat under tho great trees along tho riv er's, luniks. Tho scientists would not sp'aro tho tlmo to visit Mill Creek fulls, so eager to reach tho lako were they. A largo number of tho forolgn vis itors oi'prosjiod thoniselvea us de lighted with ull of the circumstances tjomicctvd with tlio trip. ' LCCCNO i f ' $Co"C v tV - r SYA ,h$fi " ' ' ji&rtbm nrr J?nm a xV . i j&&..y- 3s&um--'.-?i.k. i . .C: T.S ( I ' s-ir J7 y T ,;Ii S JA r IXsZMM LAKE . yyj$b K f v rfra52 toma&sJtw -t?-Sa5nv-- -rl 1 Trl uwzilFz i Irtl i y AX f i if X S vL I n--X V- - V V fits s i s V I i, uv- n j Uw, V oJ sA ' y bourn BouNolAftY or rjoj??k ) ( ,tfurr " S I n Scenic Highway of the World , . B O U N OlA X Y t v . yj U 4v It It doubtful if any view exlutltig In the .rid toiliiy Ik in lliiri'Hlvii .mil at the Mime time as beautiful an the vie of Crater take from the rim," wild Mujor Jay J. Morrow of the Army luigliieorlug ruirpn, In trail mlilliiK u report to the wur deiart iiii'tit rtH'OMiiiuiulliiK the itxpiiiiillture of IKIS.niiO for the roiiNtrmtlon of rondn nuil trolls In the Craler l.;i!.u Natlouul park. CoiiKriwa nl It last hi'Miloii pasM'd mi appropriation of friO.UQu for the Im'hIiiiiIiik of this highway ronstrue tlxii. An nildltloiial ftllO.llOu is reo ommiinded by the war depiirtment for Ibis year ami It Is expected that $ MO, 000 ) early will be expended un til the )Ntum of highway Is com pleh'i ll'J Mllex of Itmiil About ft'i inllcH of good nmiU mid 100 miles of trails. In the opinion of Major Morrow, u 111 unable the tour ist to reach the most Important spots In the park with facility, and, while the oMtlmated cost Is high, he be lleveK the expenditure Is fully Justi fied, particularly ns It Is proposed to build the roads for automobile travel. Compared with the cost of building roads In the Yellowstone mid Itulnler national parks, where the topography Is similar to that In the Crater lake park, Major Morrow says the flgureu cited In his osillmutcH ure tint excec slve, but about on a par with tho actual cost of building roads over like territory in the two older parks. This boulevard will bo iinllko any other In tho world, 'Not only does It look down upon America's deepest take, lying like a blue iiiuethyst In mystlii beauty, and admittedly un rivaled muting the world's natural wonders, hut It affords ti wonderful panorama of mountain scenery, of bleak hills and Yerdnro-cltid Hlopes, of snowy peuks a bewildering multitude of mountain ranges Htretchlug toward horizons In every illiectlou u h fur ns the e'yo can see. Mount .lofferson Is plainly visible In the north, Mount Hhnutu in tho south. To the eaijt lie tho lakes and green flehlH of the Klamnth Htretch lug llko a fairyland Into the hqijo brush hills otu tho distance, To (ho west tiro the many rlbheivHlopen of tho wooded Umpuiias and thu Blskl yoiiH. To mmui tho mkMtfVMltyt l,1 peoplo of Medfonl and Jackson coun ty havo labored Incessantly Jor the linst four yearn to nnij)tr(jut n'nconlo auto highway up'tho" Hoguo river to thu lake. An appropriation for this purpose was scheduled from tho ntulo of Oregon, but was held unconsti tutional by tho HUprumu court, ' mm w j).,:i.'tl. I'.'.'j-.iuwy 'i".!1,')'. T,.rtf