12 WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON 



" Americans of Danish descent have purchased 

 a tract of three hundred acres of typical and virgin 

 Danish heather landscape, which is to be pre- 

 served for all ages to come as a national park. 

 The wonderful, picturesque Danish heath, which 

 for ages has furnished inspiration to national ar- 

 tists and poets, has been disappearing fast before 

 the onslaught of the thrifty Danish farmers, who 

 are bringing every available square inch of Den- 

 mark's soil under cultivation. One day it dawned 

 upon the Danish people that soon there would be 

 nothing left of this typical landscape, and while 

 the good people of Denmark were discussing 

 ways and means of preserving this virgin soil, 

 Americans of Danish descent had already had a 

 representative on the spot who had bought up 

 from a number of small landowners the three- 

 hundred-acre tract known as Rebild Bakkar [Re- 

 bild Hills], considered the most beautiful part of 

 the heath, besides having historical associations 

 dating hundreds of years back." 



I am sending the cablegram to the warden of 

 Three-Arch Rocks and to the Astoria fisherman, 

 and to myself, underscoring these lines, — 



"The wonderful, picturesque Danish heath. 



