ter except the Rocky Mountain Park, and I feel confident that 

 this number, great as it is, will increase with amazing rapidity 

 in the future if steps are taken to enable persons of moder- 

 ate means, to whom a visit to the far west is an impossibility, 

 to come to Mount Desert Island and spend there without undue 

 expense the leisure time which the summer affords them. Every- 

 where on the island are to be found sites of exceptional beauty 

 for the erection of small houses, and the cost of living is not ex- 

 cessive. There are thousands of men situated as I am and have 

 been — hard workers whose strength and vitality can only be 

 maintained by breaking away from labour for a short period — 

 to whom this Park is going to prove a measureless blessing. 



If the Government proposes to spend any money upon its park 

 system, I think that the Sieur de Monts ought to receive that 

 proportion of the total appropriation which the number of its 

 visitors bears to the aggregate number of visitors to other parks. 

 The remarkable opportunities for increase and greater useful- 

 ness it offers under right development seem to entitle it to that. 

 Very sincerely yours 



(Signed) David B. Ogden 



