56 The Mountaineer 
as indicated, by the following letter written by George E. 
Wright to Congressman Will E. Humphrey under date of 9 
February, 1909: 
“Tam about to lend my support to the movement to create 
some kind of a National Park out of the main body of the 
Olympic Mountains. 
“With a view to preparing some kind of a proposed bill to 
be introduced in Congress, I have just looked up the Act which 
you introduced for the establishment of a game preserve and I 
have read with considerable interest the proceedings in the 
House of Representatives as they appear in Congressional 
Record. 
“What we had in mind was, in the Act itself, to designate 
the limits of the reserve. This proposition we are going over 
carefully with some of the Mountaineers, who are very familiar 
with the ground, and we propose also to go over it carefully 
with the men owning large bodies of timber—although thus 
far we have not found them interested—for we do not propose 
to go down into the valuable timber. We ean easily create a 
Park having area of between six hundred and one thousand 
square miles without approaching the boundaries of the present 
forest reserve and without approaching merchantable timber, 
unless possibly some very small quantities where the line of the 
Park will cut across narrow valleys. 
“The main mountain ridges will upon all sides run outside 
of the artificial boundaries which we shall suggest. For this 
reason it may be desirable in addition to creating artificial 
limits, to give power to the President by proclamation, to make 
to a limited extent, some future enlargement of these limits, as 
the topography of the ground may require. 
“Will you kindly advise me upon the following points: 
1. Would you lke us to draft and submit to you, a pro- 
posed Act of Congress; or would you prefer to draw it your- 
self? 
2. Will you give your approval to the idea of provisionally 
defining, in the Act itself, the limits of the reserve? 
3. Will it be best to have this Park created as a game 
preserve, or simply as a plain National Park. 
4. Is it desirable in addition to establishing in the first 
instanee, the bounds of the reserve, to give to the President 
the power to enlarge these bounds? 
