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electric fire; our tinware was easily located by the light 

 it emitted. 



There are several names of minor interest that have 

 not found their way on the maps. It seems to me that 

 it would be a commendable work for the Mountaineers 

 to make a lexicon of all the recognized names, giving 

 their origin while it is possible to do so. It also seems 

 right that the club should give names to many points 

 of interest not so designated. 



OLYMPIC NATIONAL MONUMENT. 



Hon. W. E. Humphrey. 



The story of the new '^National Monument" set 

 aside in the Olympic mountains, is a tale that will not 

 take many words in the telling. Ever since I have been 

 in Congress I have been working to have a bill passed 

 that would make a national game preserve in these 

 mountains. I desired this, not only to preserve the game, 

 but as a step toward a national park. This bill was 

 favored by President Roosevelt but met with much op- 

 position in Congress. Once I did succeed in getting it 

 through the House, but it died in the Senate. There 

 was no possibility of getting it passed again before 

 President Roosevelt went out of office. In my anxiety 

 to do something toward preserving the Roosevelt elk of 

 the Olympics, the largest and finest elk in the world, 

 and to keep this region in shape where no one could 

 claim that they held rights because of settlement, I 

 thought of the statute that gives the President the 

 power to set aside certain areas of land to preserve 

 such features as were of a great scientific value. I de- 

 cided to ask the President to do this with this region. 

 I requested Mr. Pinchot, who was interested always in 



