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It will readily be understood how practically im- 
possible it would be to obtain such consent in many 
I or most cases, even where it would be granted if 
asked for ; and, further, it is not difficult to under- 
stand that such a law might very naturally tend to 
curtail the activities of the Conservation Commis- 
sion in the interests of the larger body of the 
sportsmen of New York State, for instance, in the 
matter of the free distribution of trout for stock- 
ing. 
While it might seem to some that such legisla- 
tion would benefit a certain class in the commun- 
ity, we feel that the greatest good of all will best 
be served by the defeat of the proposed bill. There 
may be some instances where the courtesy and 
good-will of landowners is abused by so-called 
sportsmen who are a disgrace to the name; but 
I would such an enactment prevent still greater 
abuse? We are certain that between a vast army 
of land proprietors and of real sportsmen there 
exist, under present conditions, relations that are 
mutually most profitable and pleasant. It person- 
ally is up to every individual angler and hunter 
who goes astream or into the woods so to conduct 
himself that such a desirable state of affairs should 
be strengthened and not jeopardized. 
NORTH DAKOTA’S MEMORIAL 
A TASK inaugurated by many states soon after 
the signing of the Armistice, was to take stock 
of what the state had done for the country. The 
pride felt by its authorities in their own state made 
them eager to demonstrate the record it had made 
in the great war. 
Considering its area, the population of North 
Dakota is not large, but the state made a remarkable 
showing in the number of its soldiers and in the 
collateral war activities which had a share in bring- 
ing success to the Allies. Many men of North Da- 
kota, impatient of our long delay in entering the 
war, enlisted in Canadian forces and, according to 
the records of the War Department, twenty-six 
thousand men went into the Army from the state. 
These, with others who, in one way and another, 
had worked for the war, lead the North Dakota au- 
thorities to believe that the state contributed not 
less than fifty thousand men and women to the Na- 
tion’s effort. When the fighting was over, it was 
felt that some memorial should be established as a 
record of what the people there had done ; and one 
of the persons applied to for advice was Dr. Mel- 
vin R. Gilmore, of the North Dakota State His- 
torical Society. 
For such memorial, Dr. Gilmore recommended a 
plan for the elaboration and fittingly bringing to- 
gether the Capitol grounds of the City of Bismark. 
These grounds consist of a hundred and sixty acres 
on a hill facing South and overlooking Bismark and 
the surrounding country — a sightly spot from which 
for long distances can be seen the great Missouri 
River on one side and on the others, the rolling 
plains which stretch away seemingly to the end 
of the world. 
Dr. Gilmore advises that on these grounds should 
be combined historical and natural historic monu- 
ments which shall stand there forever and shall 
show the visitor certain facts of the history and 
of the natural history of the great State to which 
the site belongs. 
At the north edge of the grounds is the State 
Capitol, looking down the hill over a long, wide 
entrance way. Lower down the hill on either side 
of this mall, opposite each other and well back from 
it, are to stand a Temple of Justice and a Historical 
Building. Directly east of this last is the cabin 
which Theodore Roosevelt occupied during 1883 
and 1884 when he was ranching on the Little Mis- 
souri near Medora, and at a little distance from that 
will be an earth lodge of the type used by the 
sedentary Indians of the Missouri River Valley, the 
Pawnees, Arikaras and Mandans. In the grounds 
will be also other objects relating to the Indians, — 
among them a prehistoric monument of which little 
is known, and the statue of Bird Woman, the Shos- 
honi woman who guided the Lewis and Clark Ex- 
pedition westward until they met her people, and 
then kept on to the western ocean and returned 
thence with her white friends. 
In the grounds of the Capitol, all living things 
are to be of State origin. Every plant within these 
grounds is to be American — even native to North 
Dakota. On the top of the hill back of the Capitol 
Building will be native pines and junipers, and 
going down the hill to lower ground will be oak, 
ash, poplar, and willow. The shrubbery will be 
native to the soil, and the formal flower beds will 
contain various native flowers which will bloom in 
succession from spring to autumn. Near the In- 
dian earth lodge will be grown corn, beans, squashes, 
and sunflowers, — crops which helped to support the 
Indians long before the coming of the white man. 
The whole project is one of extraordinary or- 
iginality, ingenuity, and wisdom ; and we may hesi- 
tate whether more to congratulate the State of 
North Dakota on having such a plan made for it. 
or Dr. Gilmore on having originated the plan. It 
is one which other states might profitably consider. 
mt. McKinley national park 
r F HE work of marking on the ground the boun- 
A dary of Mount McKinley National Park, 
Alaska, will be started as soon as weather condi- 
tions permit by the United States General Land 
Office through the Surveyor General at Juneau. 
This is the first step to be taken by the National 
Park Service in establishing adequate protection 
over the region which is the fountain head of the 
big game herds of Alaska. 
The total length of the boundary is approxi- 
mately 250 miles, but, due to the rugged topography 
of the park and to the fact that the boundary 
crosses several immense glaciers, it will be impos- 
sible to monument the entire line, nor is this neces- 
ary. The summit of Mt. Russell, altitude 11,500 
feet, forms the southwest corner of the park. 
However, a portion of the north, the east, and a por- 
tion of the south boundary, which inclose the sec- 
tion of the park to which easy access is possible, 
will be thoroughly monumented in order that the 
park rangers, tourists, hunters and mining pros- 
pectors may readily discern the park limits. 
Congress when it created the park had in mind 
two main objects to be fulfilled by its establish- 
ment. One of these was to maintain for the benefit, 
use and enjoyment of all the people this great area 
of magnificent scenery and unsurpassed natural at- 
tractions and the other was to preserve the game. 
Miners actually engaged in prospecting and mining 
may take and kill in the park what game or birds 
are needed for their actual necessities when short 
of food. All other hunting and killing of wild life 
is prohibited and offenders are liable to a fine. 
