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While I was there in 1920, people were talking 

 of another great scenic discovery, "a canyon named 

 Bryce in the Pink Cliff," which also, we found later, 

 had been known to local Mormon dry farmers for 

 many years. A magnificent double natural bridge 

 in Arizona, discovered by Land Office officials half 

 a dozen years ago, had been really discovered years 

 before that and lost. In fact, it was lost twice. 



We may only guess at the scenic and geologic 

 future of this part of the Public Domain, crediting it 

 with extraordinary values which may not be mea- 

 sured in dollars. 



V 



CONCERNING ANTELOPE AND OTHERS 



In Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and other Public 

 Land states of the far West, States Game Depart- 

 ments have proclaimed rules extending far beyond 

 state lands into the Public Domain, where they may 

 be enforced only by courtesy. There is no doubt of 

 the benefit to wild life of this usurpation of author- 

 ity if it can be made to function, and it has all the 

 help that the Interior Department may give. 



The difficulty appears to be that local people do 

 not themselves seem to take this movement seri- 

 ously. It is charged that it is a device of livestock 

 interests to forestall creation of large Federal Game 

 Preserves on these same lands. It is charged also 

 that it is a device of hunters to discourage the live- 



