Mount Shasta 



13 



12. A continuance of the effective aid of the Bureau of Ser- 

 vice, National Parks and Monuments, estabUshed by the United 

 States Railroad Administration, after the railroads of the nation 

 are returned to their owners. 



13. The creation of game preserves adjacent to several na- 

 tional parks, notably Yosemite, Crater Lake, and Mount Rainier 

 parks, in order that better protection may be given to wild ani- 

 mals when they are driven from the parks by snow. 



MOUNT SHASTA 

 By John Rollin Ridge* 



Itself all Ught, save when some loftiest cloud 



Doth for a while embrace its cold forbidding 



Form, the monarch mountain casts its mighty 



Shadow down upon the crownless peaks below, 



That, like inferior minds to some great 



Spirit, stand in strong contrasted littleness ! 



All through the long and summery months of our 



Most tranquil year, it points its icy shaft 



On high, to catch the dazzhng beams that fall 



In showers of splendor round the crystal cone. 



And roll in floods of far magnificence 



Away from that lone, vast reflector in 



The dome of Heaven. 



*The author, born March 19, 1827, the son of a full-blooded Cherokee chief, died 

 at Grass Valley, California, October 5, 1867. His Indian name, Cheesquatalawny, 

 means Yellow Bird, and under this pen-name he made his contributions to early 

 California literature. 



