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not put his shack." As with the lines on the north, 

 so with those on the east, on the south and the 

 west; they are protected by mountain heights and 

 they exclude all land of value for agricultural 

 purposes, or even for grazing. 



The first Superintendent of the Park was N. P. 

 Langford, appointed May 10, 1872, to serve with- 

 out salary. He never drew any salary, never lived 

 in the Park, and protected it only by reports and 

 recommendations. No one could have been more 

 enthusiastic than he, nor more earnest in his wish 

 to see the Park protected, but the reservation was 

 a new thing, and neither he nor anyone else knew 

 what it needed, nor was the public well enough 

 acquainted with it to feel any special interest in it. 



In the spring of 1876, P. W. Norris was 

 appointed to succeed Mr. Langford. Something 

 more than a year later an appropriation was had 

 for the Park, and a small force of employees was 

 engaged, some of whom did good work in trying to 

 protect the forests from fires. Norris was a de- 

 stroyer of natural wonders, collecting great quan- 

 tities of beautiful specimens, which he shipped out 

 of the Park. He professed to desire the protection 

 of game, but not the abolition of hunting. Norris 

 was followed by P. H. Conger, in 1882, who made 

 the usual recommendations that various things be 



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