avel and
convenience to enable tourists to obtain the benefits of scenic
beauties are primary, but sewage, water, and electric-power
problems are after all of equal importance.

[Illustration: Fairy Falls in Goat Lick Basin, below Stevens Glacier.]

In line with Secretary Ballinger's report, Senator Flint of California
introduced a bill authorizing the creation of such a bureau in the
Interior Department. The bill failed to get through at the last
session, but I am informed by Senator Jones that it will be
reintroduced. Its purpose is of great public importance, and the
indorsement of the very intelligent directors of the Sierra Club in
California argues well for its form. Every person interested in the
development of our National Parks to fullest usefulness and the proper
conservation of their natural beauty should work for the passage of
the bill.

[Illustration {p.076}: Copyright, 1897, By E. S. Curtis. Gibraltar and
its Neighbors, showing a mile of the deeply crevassed ice-field inside
the angle of which the great crag is the apex. On the left are Cowlitz
Cleaver and the Bee-Hive; on the right, Cathedral Rocks.]

{p.077}
[Illustration: Crossing Carbon Glacier. On the ice slopes, it
is customary to divide a large party into companies of ten, with an
experienced alpinist at the head of each. Note the medial moraines on
the glacier.]

III.

THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAIN.

I asked myself, How was this colossal work performed? Who
chiseled these mighty and picturesque masses out of a mere
protuberance of earth? And the answer was at hand. Ever young,
ever mighty, with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within
him, the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky.
It was he who planted the glaciers on the mountain slopes, thus
giving gravity a plough to open out the valleys; and it is he
who, acting through the ages, will finally lay low these mighty
monuments, * * * so that the people of an older earth may see
mould spread and corn wave over the hidden rocks which at this
moment bear the weight of the Jungfrau.--_John Tyndall: "Hours of
Exercise in the Alps."_

The life of a glacier is one eternal grind.--_John Muir._

Our stately Mountain, in its youth, was as comely and symmetrical a
cone as ever graced the galaxy of volcanic peaks. To-day, while still
young as compared with the obelisk crags of the Alps, it ha