FEDERAL AND STATE RESERVATIONS 245 
their crevasses and serracs, equally striking, and 
equally worthy of close study. We have seen noth- 
ing more beautiful in Switzerland or Tyrol, in Nor- 
way or in the Pyrenees, than the Carbon River gla- 
cier and the great Puyallup glaciers. Indeed, the 
ice in the latter is unusually pure, and the crevasses 
unusually fine. The combination of ice scenery with 
woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found 
nowhere in the Old World, unless it be in the Hima- 
layas, and, so far as we know, nowhere else on the 
American continent. 
““We may, perhaps, be permitted to express a 
hope that the suggestion will at no distant date be 
made to Congress that Mount Rainier should, like 
the Yosemite Valley and the geyser region of the 
Upper Yellowstone, be reserved by the Federal Goy- 
ernment and treated as a National park.’ ” 
On the peninsula between Puget Sound and the 
Pacific, the Olympic Reservation is located. It em- 
braces a large portion of the Olympic Mountains. 
Far to the Northwest is the Washington Reserve, 
which borders on the Canadian frontier and includes 
Mount Baker (10,800 feet). It is throughout a coun- 
try of such unrivaled natural beauties that spoliation 
of any kind whatever should be prevented, irrespect- 
ive of cost. 
The main point in connection with these reser- 
