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NATIONAL FOREST 
AS NATIONAL PLAYGROUNDS. 
_ Washington, D. C., August 27.— 
Before the year’s outing season is 
over nearly half a million persons 
will have sought recreation and 
health in the National Forests of the 
United States. According to the re- 
cord of the U. 8. Department of Ag- 
riculture, the total last year was, in 
close figures, 406,775. With the 
finest mountain scenery and much of 
the best fishing and big-game hunt- 
ing in the United States, the Nation- 
al Forests, made more and more ac- 
cessible each year through protec- 
tion and development by the Govern- 
ment, are fast becoming great Na- 
tional playgrounds for the people. 
The use of the Forests for recrea- 
tion is as yet in its beginning, but 
is growing steadily and rapidly— in 
some of the Forests at the rate of a 
hundred per cent. per annum. © The 
day seems not far distant when a 
million persons will annually. visit 
_ them. 
The records show that the season- 
al use of the Forests runs from two 
months in a Colorado Forest, such as 
the Routt, to twelve months in an 
_ Alaskan, such as the Tongass. But 
GOING OR COMING? 
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People going away on their vacations as well as those returning home can reflect with sat- 
isfaction that they can depend upon Webber’s for a service and attention to their needs 
that very few stores can surpass. Although we are between two seasons, still that fact does 
not prevent us giving excellent attention to the needs of both. No matter whether at home or 
away our Mail Order System will give such attention to your needs that would be hard to 
“the uses differ. 
“NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
In Colorado, the 
2000 visitors entered the Forest to 
fish, to camp, to climb, and to drink 
-the medicinal waters; in Alaska the 
1000 almost solely to hunt and fish. 
The .21,000- persons who went into 
the Coconino Forest, Arizona, during 
nine months, went to camp or to en- 
joy the scenery. During four months 
50,000 persons visited the Angeles, 
California. -The most popular of the 
Forests is the Pike, containing the 
famous peak of that name. The vari- 
ous attractions within its limits, in- 
cluding the scenie railway, drew 
100,000 tourists and others. By prin- 
cipal states the National Forest 
visitors numbered 23,000 in Arizona, 
103,000 in Calfornia, 140,000 in 
Colorado, 19,000 in Montana, 10,- 
000 in New Mexico, 33,000 in Ore- 
gon, 22,000 in Idaho, 16,000 in Utah, 
and 12,000. in Washington. 
Of the natural wonders and land- 
marks of interest in the National Fo- 
rests several have been set apart as 
National Monuments among them 
Cinder Cone, a great lava basin in 
California; the Gila Cliff Dwellings, 
extensive remains of a prehistoric 
race in New Mexico; the unsur- 
passed Grand Canyon of the Colora- 
do, in Arizona; Jewel Cave, South 
better were you to shop in person. 
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Dakota; Lassen Peak, the terminus 
of a long line of extinct voleanoes in 
the Cascades; the Pinnacles, a col- 
lection of remarkable jagged peaks 
in California; and the Tonto, a 
group of prehistoric ruins in the 
Tonto Forest in Arizona. The Big 
Trees, “Glacier Park, the Petrified 
Forest, the Oregon Caves, and nume- 
rous other phenomena serve to at- 
tract other hosts of visitors. 
The sportsman finds his paradise 
in the National Forests. In many of 
them big game abounds. The ran- 
gers and the guards, besides the 
service they perform against the 
spread of fire, often point out the 
best site for the camper and the 
easiest route. A record of 9,218 miles 
of trial cut, 1236 miles of road laid 
out, and 4851 miles of telephone 
line strung tells what the Govern- 
ment has done in the way of pushing 
the conveniences of civilization into 
the primeval forest. The day of the 
wilderness of the savage and the 
pioneer is swiftly passing; the day 
of the National Forests as produc- 
tive resources and as National parks 
approaches. The report of last 
year’s administration by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture evidences 
the rapidity of the transformation. 
The Shopping 
Centre of 
North Shore 
Mail and Phone 
Orders 
Promptly Filled 
