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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
LOOKING DOWN THE DALLES FROM THE ELIIOW— MINNESOTA TO THE RIGHT, WISCONSIN TO THE LEFT. 
secured to add to attractions. The river being 
navigable the United States government has now 
made an appropriation which will improve the river 
facilities and steamboating is resumed on the St. 
Croix river. Some of the most interesting work 
accompli'shed has been the cleaning out of the 
so-called “pot holes" or wells. 
With the illustrations herewith given, it is hardly 
necessary to dilate upon the scenic attractions of the 
place, they can be better imagined than described. 
The plant life about the Dalles is most varied 
and remarkable in extent. A writer speaks of the 
place thus: “4Te moss covered rocks and logs 
are likened unto beautiful mats, so varied are their 
colors. All the different vines of the northern 
climes are found here. Among her trees are the 
white, Norway and jack pines, red and white cedar, 
spruce, hr, birch, willow, butternut, linden, poplar, 
the maple family, ash, walnut, mountain ash, elm, 
oak, ironwood, cherry, hickory and the junipers, 
the larch and Canadian yew. Among her thousand 
plants is found the mocassin flower, the golden rod, 
blue harebells, roses, blueberries, jacks-in-the- 
pulpit, co'umbine, honeysuckle, blue gentian, 
anemones, asters and lilies. Among her very 
exceptionally large family of ferns, the most choice 
and rare are found, including the walking and bulb 
fern; and among her mosses and lichens is found 
the prickly pear cactus. The ‘Glacier Gardens’ are 
among her most noted features — the footprints in 
the rocks, the many pot-holes, or wells, made by 
the whirling, surging water keeping the boulders or 
cobble stones in motion. Large numbers of these 
have been taken out, some among a yellow drift, 
as from Red River valley, and some a dark red 
drift, as from Lake Superior. Many of the stones 
are worn very round and smooth. The names of 
many of the characteristic places are: ‘Old St. Croix 
Fireplace,’ the coloring of which is remarkable; 
‘ I he Devil’s Chair,’ ‘The Kitchen,’ ‘Bake Oven,’ 
‘Sitting Room,’ ‘Pulpit,’ ‘The Cross,’ ‘Old Man of 
the Dalles,’ or sentinel; ‘The Cave,’ ‘The Gopher.’ 
‘The Hammer Head,’ or two-faced man; ‘Desk 
Rock,’ ‘Ficho Rock,’ ‘Eagle Nest Point.’ ” 
A visit which the writer made to this park last 
summer impressed him wiLh the wonderful lavish- 
ness with which nature had invested this region 
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drawing attention to the vast stretch of ages which 
had spanned the trail from the making of the pot 
hole to its present discovery and investigation on 
the one hand, and to the nodding harebells and 
quivering ferns greeting one with their thousand 
and one companions from every point of sight on 
the other — two phases of nature, fascinating and yet 
awe inspiring in contemplation of her vast resources. 
No better work has been done for their people 
than the preservation of this locality in an inter- 
state park by the sister states, and Mr. Hazzard is 
to be highly commended for the efficient part he 
has played in its preservation and development. 
