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the Helena National Forest. Many of the residents of 

 nearby towns take advantage of the chance to play in 

 National Forest territory. The Y. M. C. A. has a canij) 

 in the Forest every summer and in the fall, winter, spring 

 and summer the hardy Boy Scouts hike in the hills of the 

 Helena. 



Animal life is not wanting in this play land. All th 

 usual wild residents of the hills are here from the more 

 timid dwellers of the tree top and shrubby thickets to the 

 larger game animals. Under the protection of the State 

 the beaver have multiplied and have increased from a 

 point where they were nearly extinct to where one trav- 

 eling over a road which parallels a stream may often see 

 their engineering feat of creating a lake for their own 

 special benefit. 



For the autoist traveling in the West the Helena Na- 

 tional Forest is one place to be sought. Many National 

 Forests offer a multitude of interesting features and 

 pleasing places in which to camp or explore, but few 

 offer the roads for the auto driver which one can find in 

 the Helena. Then here, too, is the unusual trip which 

 can be taken in a mountainous country through the canyon 

 of the Missouri to the Gate of the Mountains, a bit of 

 mountain scenery equal to many which are far more 

 widely known, but no more unusual or interesting. 



So wherever you travel in the West, whether it be in 

 an auto with all the luxurious fittings of a parlor car, 

 or if you drive a sputtering little four cylinder bundle of 

 metal made active by the urge of gasoline exploding under 

 a cracker box hood, make one of the objectives of your 

 trip the Helena National Forest. And because it is im- 

 possible to here give more than a few representative 

 things which you will find in this Scenic Forest you are 

 invited to this place to find for yourself all of those un- 

 sung features which can be found here. The Supervisor's 

 office is in Helena, and as you are bound to reach that 

 point before you travel far in the Forest, you can there 

 find information in full of the auto roads and sceni- 

 features of the playground for the motorist in the moun- 

 tain lands of the Helena. 



FOREST ROAD LOGS IN COLORADO 



The illustration shows a typical road log of a new 

 series that is being prepared by the U. S. Forest service, 

 cooperating with local commercial organizations. Prac- 

 tically every road in mountainous country of Colorado 

 either passes through or near National Forest territory. 

 It is probable that eventually every road so situated will 

 be logged and cards printed similar to the cut shown. 

 Armed with a sheaf of cards the tourist will be able to ex- 

 plore the mountains from end to end for one card fits 

 to another to give the log of a trip of many miles or 

 serves as a single trip log. These may be secured from 

 the local commerce clubs of towns in and near the moun- 

 tains of Colorado. 



THE WOODBURY WEEPING ELM 



A few miles out of Union City, Indiana, stands a noble 

 old tree of the weeping elm variety, or as botanists would 

 say water elm. 



The great tree is isolated from others of its kind, and 

 for this reason is a conspicuous landmark. It has a place. 

 in all the guide books that are compiled for the benefit of 

 travelers. The height of the tree is much over loo feet; 

 the trunk, 4 feet in diameter ; the spread of the graceful, 

 drooping branches, 100 feet; the age, estimated to be near 

 200 years. The first owner of the farm was Nathan Wood- 

 bury. V. M. Overman. 



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