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THE NEW GLACIER NATIONAL PARK* 



[The bill to establish the Glacier National Park in the Rocky 

 Mountains south of the international boundary line, in the State 

 of Montana, has just been passed by Congress and signed by the 

 President. The following speech was made by Senator Carter of 

 Montana when the bill was being considered by the Senate:] 



Mr. President, upon the general policy of public parks 

 I am sure there can be but one opinion. Public parks in 

 the cities of the country are a benediction to the people 

 residing in densely settled districts. The national parks 

 of the United States are all too few in number for the 

 pleasure and accommodation of the people of the United 

 States. 



No one who has ever visited the Yellowstone National 

 Park can fail to realize that it would have been a public 

 calamity to have permitted that wonderland to have passed 

 into private ownership. Thousands of people visit that 

 park from all portions of this country and from nearly all 

 parts of the world every year. It is a source of pride to 

 the American people. It is a pleasure ground which will 

 grow in favor as the years go by. 



The section which it is proposed by the bill to estabHsh 

 as a park is entirely different from the Yellowstone 

 National Park in many respects. The park embraces an 

 area of about 1,400 square miles. It is between 30 and 

 40 miles in width and about 50 miles in length. For bold 

 ness of scenery, for the beauty of the lakes and the water- 

 falls, and for the remarkable glacial deposits eternally 

 resting there, it is distinctly unique in all the world's 

 remarkable scenery. There are 16 living glaciers within 

 the limits of this proposed park. 



The construction of wagon roads will probably not be 

 resorted to in this park to any considerable extent. It is 

 an extremely rugged country. Cliffs rising thousands of 



* For further information concerning this park see article by Guy Elliott 

 Mitchell in The National Geographic Magazine for March, 1910. 



