The Mountaineer 7 
Mount Rainier National Park. 
The growing appreciation of Mount Rainier National Park is indi- 
cated by the increasing yearly attendance. During the summer season 
of 1908 about 3,800 people visited the Park; in 1909 there were over 
6,000 and up to date this year about 8,000. In con- 
versation with Mr. Ricksecker, engineer in 
active charge of the park for the United 
States Government, it developed that game life is rapidly disappearing 
from Mount Rainier. In the winter due to the snow, deer migrate 
to the lower feeding grounds bordering the Park. Here many hunters 
congregate to shoot them like pigeons from the traps. Either the 
limits of the Park should be extended to include the low lying feeding 
grounds now in the National Forest Reserve; or the game laws of 
the Park prohibiting all shooting should be extended to cover a belt 
of the National Reserve, say ten miles wide entirely around Mount 
Rainier Park. This would be similar in principle to the Lake Wash- 
ington Bird Preserve now established around Lake Washington. 
The government road was opened in September to the Camp of 
the Clouds. Last year Senators Humphrey and Piles offered a bill 
before Congress asking for an appropriation for surveys and towards 
the construction of the hoped for road entirely around Mount Rainier. 
The bill failed of passage as first presentations frequently do. This 
proposed government road, circling Rainier just below the glacier line, 
would form one of the most spectacular, beautiful and instructive 
drives in the United States. More glaciers of note break down from 
Mount Rainier than from any other peak in the country. Accordingly, 
our Senators should be requested to represent the bill of last year 
and add thereto proper methods of protecting the game by the exten- 
tion of Mount Rainier Park. The establishment of Mount Rainier 
Park itself is a precedent for these requests. AEA 
Mt. Rainier 
National Park 
The Mountaineers are indebted to A. H. Sylvester, Supervisor of 
the Wenatchee National Forest, for his courtesy to them during the 
recent outing at Glacier Peak. 
The Club appreciates the efforts of W. A. Ross of the Great Nor- 
thern Railroad to secure minimum transportation rates for our outing. 
The Commercial Clubs of Chelan and Wenatchee contributed to the 
pleasure of our visit to their vicinity, the former by their kind at- 
tentions, by crates of fruits, the latter by their hospitality. 
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The delicious coffee used on local walks and the excellent supplies 
used in the many outings are from Augustine & Kyer. 
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The Mountaineers are urged to patronize the advertisers in the 
Club Annual. 
