PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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at its summit for many years, where 
an immense number of visitors have 
been entertained during the past cen- 
tury. Mr. Christopher Clarke of 
Northampton undertook the organiza- 
tion of a Mount Holyoke Company, 
who have bought the mountain prop- 
erty, and under the skillful engineer- 
ing and supervision of M. D. Patter- 
son, city engineer of the City of 
Northampton, the building of this 
mountain road has been successfully 
accomplished. The contractors were 
the Daniel O’Connell & Sons Com- 
pany of Holyoke, and this difficult 
work was accomplished between the 
months of June and September, 1908. 
It is intended that other improvements 
and additional roads will be built by 
the Mount Holyoke Company in the 
near future. The building of this 
road is a great credit to liberal mind- 
ed citizens who organized this com- 
pany and have given to the general 
public an easy means of reaching and 
enjoying this beautiful view. The 
building of the road was chiefly due 
to the efforts of Christopher Clarke 
of Northampton, one of the charter 
members of the Board of Trustees of 
Public Reservations, a corporation 
chartered in 1891 to acquire and main- 
tain historic tracts in the state. 
WISCONSIN’S FOUR PROPOSED STATE PARKS 
Wisconsin is taking active 
and practical steps to secure 
four great state parks, and the 
recommendations for definite 
action presented by the State 
Park Board, and noted in 
these pages'' last month -are now 
up to the Legislature. There is' 
a strong public sentiment’ in 
favor of acquiring the tracts 
recommended and it is confi- 
dently expected that the neces- 
sary legislation will soon be 
passed. 
The Statfe Park Board, in 
company with Mr. John Nol- 
en, landscape architect, of 
Cambridge, Mass., visited and 
examined the four tracts rec- 
ommended, The Dells' of the 
Wisconsin river at Kilbourn, 
Devil’s Lake near B'araboo, the 
Penninsula in Door County 
and the Mississippi and Wis- 
consin river bluffs in Grant 
County, and an elaborate illus- 
trated report by Mr. Nolen 
is before the Legislature. 
The following interesting 
descriptions of the proposed 
parks embodied in Mr. Nol- 
en’s report with the accom- 
panying illustrations will give 
some idea of the value of Wis- 
consin’s scenic treasures : 
In an attempt to outline 
something like a well bal- 
anced system of State Parks 
for Wisconsin it should be 
kept in mind that the principle 
has already been accepted and 
a start already made in the In- 
terstate Park of the Dalles of 
the St. Croix. More than a 
decade ago, by joint action of 
the legislatures of Wisconsin 
and Minnesota, a park prop- 
erty near Taylor Falls, in many 
respects ideal, was secured and 
set aside as an Interstate Park. 
If it were right and good 
for the State of Wisconsin to 
INDIAN HEAD, EAGLE BLUFF, DOOR COUNTY, WIS. 
Characteristic Scenery of Proposed Wisconsin State Park. 
