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,>.:•& \>*v.. • •:¥><-% •• „ "s f* S £#• -:^r? '. V? • >posi • •. -4'* .i..."^ * * 5;vji' i&y -Wi'S: ~*km- -k.'; <r9 I S'-AJffi,i'• ~?2ZF&FJ?JlD£rfr3 ftzv&xr UDENTS ft "OR! GRAND CW1VON VTTCHAL RURK \/ PARK By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN RfiPAKE for "The President* P Forest!" Something new! Sonip thing significant!--interesting f " A joint resolution (S. J. Refe. 154) "creating the President*® Forest within the present Kaibab National forest, Arizona," hM been introduced by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and referred to the committee on public lands end surveys. The resolution, after defining tbe boundaries provides that the land and timber "are hereby withdrawn from settlement, location, occupancy, grazing or disposal under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a game sanctuary and forest preserve for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, and shall hereafter be known as the President's Forest." "The President's Forest," if this resolution I* passed by both houses, will therefore be the name of approximately 500,000 acres of timber forever set aside for the people and forever barred to purchaser, homesteader, miner, stockman, lumberman, resident, hunter and trapper. Under the present form of the resolution control will remain in the forest service of the Agricultural department, which controls the Kaibab National forest and a3T natlonal forests. To all Intents and purposes the forest will be a part of the Grand Canyon National .park, which runs into It on the south and la ta. charge of the national park service of the Interfftr department. So "The President's Forest," to something nejr« > The name, for one' thing, is new, And why "TO*' President'8 Forest"? Because the United States is a nation governed by laws rather than by men. Presidents eorae and presidents go. As long as there is a United States there will be ft president. And as long as there Is a president there will be "The President** Forest." And "The President's Forest" Is new In form too. There's nothing just like It. It's nearest in tform to a national park. It has size, majesty and beauty. Private and commercial Interests aXf barred. It Is a game sanctuary. It ta purely "tor the benefit and enjoyment of the people." All <pf •which closely describe a national park. ^ , Certainly It is far removed In form from a nft»' tional forest. The national forests, as established., by law, are purely commercial and Industrial institutions for the application for profit of scientific lumbering and grazing to the nation's woodlots, though as a matter of fact there is instead of • profit an annual deficit of a million and moff and the forest service is exploiting the national, ilbrests as recreational rivals to national parks. Anyway, "The President's Forest" will be one forest where the forest service cannot insist upon trying to combine cattle and campers, wood-choppers and tree-lovers, sheep and tourists. Cattle !ln a wild beauty spot are a calamity; sheep alp : • catastrophe. The movement to create "The President's Far- . est" has a significance that gladdens the nature- Iww's heart. It betokens an increasing national' appreciation of the value of scenery as a natural resource, as a national asset. It betokens an in-' creasing national consciousness that it is not well to lay the ax to every forest, to turn the cattle and sheep loose on the shrubs and flowers of every wild beauty spot. The Kaibab National forest Is approximately 40 miles square, and contains 1,072,900 acres. It stands on the Kaibab plateau, which rises up from the desert that surrounds it on the north, east and - west and slopes down to 8,000 feet at the North' Rim of the Grand canyon. "The President's Forest" is the east half of the Kaibab National forest. The northwest part at "The President's Forest" shoulders up on to Buckskin mountain. So there are mountains and valleys covered with gnarled one-seeded juniper and plnon and with majestic western yellow plaa which are three and four feet through and rise 100 feet. There Is some Douglas fir and some spruce. Ravines are clad with the lighter gre«n of the aspen which changes to vivid yellow, gold and red in the fall. In the little parks within the forest the trees stop half-way down the rimmii* •lope* and leave room for white clover, grass and jawzfcZznazr H*O6K> dp /tj9u//e*r flowers and for wild strawberries about a spring. This vast, remote, rugged, heavily-timbered Kaibab National forest is still a wild place in spite of the fact that thousands of cattle and sheep have been grazing in it for years. It is still so wild that there are at least 10,000 black-tail deer In It, though they shrink in disgust from the cattle and sheep. There are many mountain lions that live t on the deer. \ This is the way Senator Smoot's Joint resolu- " tion came to be Introduced: Stephen T. lfather, director of the national park service, drove from -the north through the Kaibab National forest to the North Rim of the Grand canyon. Upon his return to Washington he wrote the following letter to President Harding: Dear Mr. President: Last summer I vWted the wonderful country at the North Rim of the Grand canyon and was profoundly impressed with the splendid forest and the extraordinary display of wild life to be found there. This region has been so isolated from transportation centers that it has remained almost untouched, and is one of the very largest areas of virgin forest in the country. It Is reliably estimated that there air* some thirteen thousand deer In the Kaibab National forest I was accompanied by Mr. Emerson Hough, the ^well-known writer, who suggested for this splendid '-itract the name of "The President's Forest." • few weeks later in Los Angeles I met Mr. K. J. Marshall, president of the Grand Canyon Cattle company, the corporation which has conducted cattle gracing operations in this forest for a number of years, and was very muoh gratified to And a ready and enthusiastic response to the idea of maintaining this region solely as a game preserve and for public enjoyment. Since then he has very generously mad* . the offer which I have the honor of transmitting to you in the accompanying letter. This offer means a very reai sacrifice on the part of the Grand Canyon Cattle company in abandoning the improvements which they made and relinquishing the prospect of a considerable profit from their operation. Mr. Mar- , ^hall's other Interests, however, are considerable, and lie cheerfully makes this sacrtfloe In a truly publlcjfcpirited manner. May I express the hope. Mr. President, that you _ may find an opportunity of visiting the President's 'Forest yourself and feating the Inspiration of Its vaettiess and unspoiled beauty. The leter of Mr. Marshall to President Harding is In part as follows: The Grand Canyon Cattle company, a Corporation, lias been oparattng here for a number of {years under leasee from the United States forest service. and during that Unw has made extensive and valuable improvements, particularly in the development of water supply and the erection of stone cattle camp buildings. The company owns certain patented tracts of land within the boundaries of the forest reservation and several tracts of located scrip lands in the Immediate vicinity. At the present time we are gracing a herd of breeding cattle, numberlng about 4,600 head, under permit from the forest service. We desire to register our willingness to vacate and abandon the Kaibab forest reservation and the public lands Immediately adjoining to the east thereof, recognizing that by so doing the purpoees of former President Roosevelt In establishing a game preserve here could be more completely fulfilled, and making the entire region avialable for the public enjoyment. Our only request is that a reasonable time be given the company to dispose of and move its livestock and other personal property, and that in recognition of our action such grazing permits be not hereafter issued to other livestock !nt«res»s ta the area now covered by our permit. Arrangements have been made through private Individuals for acquiring the company's patented land holdings, which are to be presented to the United States without cost to the government. It was the original suggestion that the President should create "The President's Forest" by executive order. The President however, preferred action by congress to insure permanency. Hence the joint resolution. Senator Smoot was pleased to Introduce the resolution. Utah Is tremendously Interested In the ex- , ploltatlon of the region north of the Grand canyon. Senator Smoot says it is" a "wonderland." It Ib Indeed--a land of scenic beauties, of geological marvels, of Strange contrasts, of romantic history. < The High plateau of Utah is divided by canyons Into nine distinct plateaus which drop the surface In successive cliffs from nearly the summit-level of the Wasatch mountains to the desert out of Which rises the Kaibab plateau. These cliffs expose in turn strata representing many millions of years of world-building. They curve and twist In fantastic outlines. They take every possible frosional form. They literally ran the gamut of color and shade and tint. There is no space here for detailed description 9t the Pink cliff, the White cliff and the Vermiltoh cliff; of the great Hurricane fault, the Natural .bridges and the Rainbow bridge; of the Painted desert; of Lee's ferry across the Colorado, where John D. Lee hid out for 20 years after the Mountain Meadows massacre; of Utah's "Dixie", land of cotton and semi-tropical fruits; of the variegated hills of sediment from a prehistoric sea along the Pariah river where are gold and free mercury. •Zlon National park--a deep, many-colored gorge cat in the plateau by the Rio Virgin--is famous. Qedar breaks, a marvel of eregional forms and Stratified color, is yet to be seen by the public. Bryce canyon, a thousand-foot niche in the top of the Pink cliff, an amphitheater-like canyon showing an endless variety of erosional forms painted In every color, shade and tint of the artist's palette, is one of the most gorgeous spectacles of the w*rld. Southern Utah and northern Arliona are working together to exploit this land of wonders. • branch railroad Is likely to be run from Lund to Cedar City; the steel may be extended from Marysvale to Panguitch. Cedar breaks, Bryce canyon, Zlon and "The President's Forest" are to be connected by automobile highways over the routes indicated by the broken lines, according to present plana. A bridge across the Colorado at Lee's ferry is planned. Two of the Colorado-Utah highways to be constructed by Colorado under the federal aid plan will strike southern Utah, thus connecting this region with Mesa Verde and Rocky Mountain National parks. There is a bill in congress to make Bryce canyon the Utah National park. It. Is more likely to be ' made a state park. Cedaf breaks may be added to Zlon National park. * 8o there will soon be thousands of tourists poshing from the north to the North Itlm--there were 1,200 last season. And now that the Kaibab Suspension bridge has been built across the Colorado in the Grand canyon a large proportion of South Rim visitors--of whom there were 66.218 last year--will cross to the North Rim. On the North Rim there is scant room for the public within the national park lines. Hence the need of "The President's Forest." "In these circumstances," asks Mr. Average lfan, "why not make The President's Forest* a part of the Grand Canyon National park?" "Because It can't be done," answers the experienced national park enthusiast, "at least not now. The people will be lucky to muster enough votes la congress to get the joint resolution through. The Agricultural department and the forest service as usual would fight to the last ditch to prevent the transfer of national forest land to a national park and the Interior department and the national park service. Huh! Didn't Theodore Roosevelt make the Grand canyon a national monument January 11, 1008, with the idea that it would be made a national park at once in response to the nation-wide demand? But the monument was put in charge of the Agricultural department instead of being transferred to the Interior department. And didn't it take the people just eleven years, one month and fifteen days from January 11. 1008, to get their Grand Canyon National park? Verb, sap.!" One enthusiast writes of "The President's Forest" a^ "the grandest natural work of Almighty God now left in all the world." Suffice At to say that as a forest it is a worthy companion to the Grand Canyon--the Canyon of Canyons! RHUBARB ONE OF BEST PRODUCERS Early Spring Vegetable Responds pt# Liberal Supply of Best -Soil Availably. OUT-BFAlo «(l Garden Pence Where Roots Will Not Be Injured la Cultivation R««t of Gard#-J* -s®'* l*V~* Oeod Location... . MS, 4" mmmmi •» -v4,;Vf 'XJfrd." Rhubarb, or "pieplant," as it Is sometimes called, cannot be grown universally, but Is limited to certain definite sections. Information as to whether rhubarb will or will not grow In a given locality can be obtained Rhubarb a Generous Producer. from the local seedsmen or from neighbors who have had experience In growing It Rhubarb la propagated by planting pieces of the roots secured by dividing older hills, and six to ten hills will usually supply plenty of rhubarb for the average family, states the United States Department of Agriculture. Rhubarb should be planted exactly the same way as asparagus, that is, the roots or crowns should be covered four or five Inches in deeply spaded and well enriched soil; there is little danger of having the soil too rich for rhubarb. The hills should be three and a half to four feet apart, if more than one row is planted. The thick leaf stems are the part used, and none should be pulled from the plants the first year after seeding, but a large supply will be available the second season, and the hills will, as a rule, continue to produce satisfactory crops of stems for several years, after which they should be divided and reset Rhubarb should receive the same attention find treatment during winter as asparagus, and the plants should never be allowed to ripen and seed. The roots may be brought into the greenhouse, pit, coldframe, or cellar during the winter and forced. By placing a barrel over a rhubarb plant much longer and trader stalks may be grown. This Is one plant that does not thrive in warm climates. It is most popular, especially In the sections where it is grown, in the early part of the spring. GiRDENERKEEBS Hoe, Rake and Spade, the Combination Soil Tillers Find Abs»- lutely Necessary. HOE IS UBOR SAVER Little Implement Suitable far email # Large Garden; Trowels Are Handyjr Spraying Outfits Are Eaeential. With the first warm days of spring sounding the earth call, there ia a hasty scurrying around for the tools of the gardening cult A gardener can get along fairly well with four, a spade or spading fork, a hoe, a rake, and a trowel. It ia even possible to get along without the last, but who wants to? The art of gardening is reaching such a point of special development that there are tools for almost everything and the wise gardener by a careful selection will ease his work as much as possible by securing appropriate working Implements. The greatest labor saver for gardens of any extent is a little wheel hoe. This saves many a headache, does the1 work thoroughly, and has appliances' for various purposes which are interchangeable from a little plow share to cultivators of various kinds. It can be used in the smallest garden. There are numerous hoes of various types and designed for different purposes. The pointed hoe for making rows is a copvenient tool. The hoe with rake teeth on the back of the blade Is (me of the very handiest allaround garden tools for light work there Is. It Is particularly well adapted for women gardeners. Three toothed cultivator hoes do a fine job of stirring the soil. Scuffle or shove hoes as they are sometimes called that can bo pushed instead of pulled, permit homing rows which are too close to walk between conveniently. Trowels of various shapes to salt various plants are now on the market, stiff, sharply angled small bladed trow* els are Ideal for splitting off pieces from perennials which have grown so large they need dividing for their best growth. They are fine to set under a recalcitrant carrot or parsnip wboeo leaves are so tender they part company from the root, leaving it in the ground. Long bladed trowels are especially adapted for digging holes for gladiolus or Other bulbs In the spring and tulips and fall bulbs later in the seasoh and equally useful In digging them up. There are little hand rakes which are just the thing for hand cultivation among plants which need special care and the earth kept stirred. Sprinkling cans and sprays moat he added to every well regulated garden outfit, especially a spray. While looking over spraying outfits get in a supply of poison for the pests that devour and for the fungus that A Short Time Weighed 112 Potmd* and W TANLAC is wkat hmit mm • wo*d*tfmUy, sopsi Barbara Weber, Si$ \ Van Net* AN., Sam • Y\ . FraneiMC*. Sh9 i» bat ^ larfy bammfitad. * ^ ff yoa arm ^ under weight, 0 yaar digmstion cs impaired, & yam ara weak and mmabim tm •njap life to the faOrnst mean are, yoa should take Tanioift At all mood drmggiBttc ;¥ TO GROW EARLY CABBAGE Cabbage is one of the most desirable of our early green or leaf crops and should be included in every home garden. The seeds should be sown indoors and the plants set in the garden about the time that danger of frost is past, or a few plants can be purchased from the seed store. Cabbage requires a rich soil, and the plants of the smaller early sorts should be set 18 Inches apart In each direction for hand cultivation. It is a good plan to pour a little water around the roots of each plant as it Is being set in the garden. i Explained Their Antipathy. "You know the old saying. Brother Johnson," solemnly began the presM> Ing elder, "about an apple a day keeping the doctor away?" "Eh-yah 1" returned Gap Johnson of Rumpns Ridge, Ark. "But my children flgger they can do a better Job of it with rocks. As nigh as I can make out, the little cusses are tired of tending the baby, and 'pears like they are afeard the doctor is going to bring another om" --Kansas City Star. CORNS Lift Qff with Ftngeti - ::;>V Dow't hurt a bit! Drop a Rttlf "Freezone" on an aching mm, inatantiy that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiay bottle el "Freeaone" for a few centa, mfikiwit ta - remove every hard core, soft eon, ea corn between the toes, and the eaUass% without aocenees or irritation. ggB==g5ga8Bgag^! 1 "• BgB--* Fruits From the Amazon. Four new fruits--the pepina, the tumbo, the acchocta end the rhacache --have been sent from the A mason country by a biological expedition now working there. Some of these. It hi hoped, may be cultivated tpt effr f markets. • -- ~ 1----»------• If a man doesnt repeat 1fee edta::,-!^ things his baby says It Is a sua thing , that he hasnt any baby. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION 'fi j" sow in drills six feet apart and thin ' to plants 18 to 24 inches apart ry Garden Tools. blights. The seedsman will tall y what to get Bordeaux mixture for fungus peats, parls green or some other arsenical poison for those that eat the leaves, and a tobacco poison of some kind for plant lice are standard. Often they can be bought In combination.--- National Garden Bureau. TO GROW MU8KMELON iion It same as for the cucumber exccceepptt that' the plants are usually given mora apace. Plant eight to ten seeds In a hill, spacing the hills six feet apart each way. After the plants become established, thin out all but four of the best ones. Another method Is to 6 ItfiitiiHI Hot *raitr|^ »• •. avfBMBiwr ELLANf 25j and 7H Packaga*fVanM»n> r coi\;n. > Kemps l Balsa My SOME USES FOR GRAPE ARBOR: NO AERIAL FLIGHT FDR MATILDA t. Was Quite Satisfied When Allowed to Jtemahj 3 "Terra Cotta." Matilda ia a stout, jolly, colored woman who spends several hours, each day caring for the children ef the Woman's wealthy friends. One afternoon the Woman met Matilda while Out with one of her little charges. While they exchanged remarks ea this mildness at the weather the Woman ^heard the unmistakable hum of an aeroplane motor. Looking up. she beheld a flying machine passing directly overhead and called Matilda's attention thereto. "It must be wonderful to fly through the air like that," said the Woman. "Would you like to take a flight, Matilda?" "No. ma'am. I gnaas net. I'.Hke to watch dem alryplanes from a distance, but rse satisfied to stay rigbt heeck qn terra cotta."--Chicago Journal. . V ' Toad's 8ervicee Valuable. It has been estimated that the value at a toad on the farm to the farmer Is $19.44. The services of the humble amphibian are worth good money in clearing away certain undesirable pests which are likely to give the farmer trouble. He himself is nd nuisance in any sense of the word. It la fallacy that the toad exudes a poison which Is responsible for the appearance of warts on the bands of any one who handles it The liquid is a milky substance which passes through to the animal's skin when it is frightened and It has a slightly irritating effect upon the human flesh, but there is no danger in It. Toads usually stay around a place for many years If the environment Is congenial and there are instances on record where these have been seen year after year for twenty and thirty sas*s^plHwhq>» . We• p atch, 4 • :>v"" .. Well-Bui It Trellis Can Be Made to Da Double Duty and Help Save Valuable Space. H ll common practice wMh many small home owners who are fortunate enough to have a few grape vines to neglect the arbors or trellis on which the .grape vines are trained. While the older type of arbor--the one with the shed roof style of covering-- is favored by many--it Is generally conceded that the upright, or wire trellis plan la the better one, not only because more sunlight and air get to the vines, but the vines can be gotten at for pruning and spraying--both of which are absolutely neceSltory. The upright posts can be used to attach the family clothes line, without harming the vines. They also can be used if high enough,. to permit of a wren box or two--maybe a bine bird would not be averse to making its home in a box of proper dimensions on ts» of » sap* Vta* post. -V Certainly the argument is In favor ofT the posts, for It will permit of the uso of more of the back yard space for vegetables or flowers--and it is wise to have them located on the north or sfr1« nf the garden where they will not keep out'the sun that Is moat •If toliWo to all vegetation. CHICKEN FEED •i Balanced rations for chickens consist of a scratch mixture and a mash. The scratch mixture, usually composed of three or more grains, keeps up the body weight of the bird and supplies heat. The mash, consisting of ground grains or their by-products, being high in digestibility and rich in protein, is more directly available for egg production. Heavy mash consumption goes with high production, and the quantities of scratch grains fed ara designed to be sufteleatfy low to he»vy sftsT DESPAIR IT yoa are troubled with achea; £eeJ tired; have indigestion, insomnia; pi aageof urine, yon wiD fii C0LD.NHHL The worM*S standard: leer, Madder end nfe adi «WaMlHI aajfll National Remedy of WrtBend stawe IMS Three abw, ail Are Tow DeUelae--«be fmt wMt* * _ tximTm e<~ %• iwlw%ftaa»S| doctor. Abaoletetr eat hamiluii. j>»al for Hler eSIahiMaiaiee. mSSt tor attar rta'ilea, MUl ta w » P. O. OcSar tor Ml afew WtMa/^ P c©.«aPw • HEADACHES are the forerunners of ConsniinHkm and die Lnn how te var-weejteoae " ~ Sotte tit,^gttugara^ea*, &