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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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'■DOCTOR MOUNTAIN" 661 bathed in a russet glow which seemed to remain for a spell, to he suddenly snuffed out, leaving us, as we emerged onto the valley floor, to follow the trail by the moon's i)ale light. Four years later, as I was walking along the Pieach Drive in San Franc isco, 1 noted an auto mobile of con- siderable wheel base and style standing b e- side the road Ajiproach i n g it, I re c og- nized the old miner, though h i s flowing white beard was now neatK trimmed a la \'an Dyke, and h i s battered Stetson h a d given way tn one with a j)re- tentions brim and n e a t 1 \ creased t o p. He recognized me at once and extended a cor - dial hand which had lost little of its gri)). We chat ted a while, and I finally asked him if his mine work- ed out as a re- sult of his in- spirat ion on the summit. "Son," h e said, "this out- fit is mine. Fni payin' that driver by the month an' I've got a diggins on Blank ave- It is as necessary that one be in a recejjtive frame of nnnU in traveling on the top of the world as elsewhere, to gel the benefits from association and contemplation. The chances are, however, that comparatively few know what they are, where they are, or where to get to them. If our National Parks were within the borders of an E u r o p e a n country, their glories would be embla2;oned upon the wait- ing-room walls of every rail- road station on the continent, and many in this country ; for, in Europe, they Wave 1 e a r n ed that scenery is a natural re- source, like many other of nature's ))rod- ucl>. It might fur- ther be stated that the sev- e r a 1 hundred millions of dol- lars which un- der n () r ni a 1 c o n d i t i ons leave this CO ti n t r y an- nually with the tourist travel to Europe, would very likely be dou- bled.' It is t r u e that many go to Europe to acquaint them- selves with the habits and cus- ton'.s cf a for- eign people; nue, with two wranglers an' a cook. Some day I'm goin' but not all that go there. Nor is this the cause of so few back on them mountains to see if I kin git another idee visiting our own unequalled scenery. Most people simply do not know what we have here How many have heard of Sequoia National Park, with the bluest sheet of water in the world nestling in the great crater of an extinct volcano, or of Mesa Verde Na- tional Park, with its canyons and mysterious cliff dwell- ings, each one an elixir of life for a sinking spirit?
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CLIFF DWELLINGS, CHERRY CREEK, SIERRA AN'CHA, APACHE TRAIL. ARIZONA The great Southwest adds the lure cf mystery, antiquity and romance to her scenic attractions. The re- ma iirg ruins of three distinct races are scattered tliroughout central Arizona. The Cliff Dwellings in the Cherry Creek Canyon country in Ihe vicinity of Roosevelt are amongst the f.nest in the L^nited States, and have attracted many noted archaeologists how to spend some o' the money I'm gettin' from that mine." Why do not more people take the soul cure in the mountains ? Perhaps it is because they do not believe in it or do not approach the mountains in the spirit of appreciation.

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