. The national parks portfolio. es, which here result in tracery and carvings of the most elaborate and sur-prising description. The park is also a game preserve of unusual merit. THE PLATT NATIONAL PARK COUTHERN Oklahomas famous curative springs were conserved for the^ public benefit in 1906 by the creation of the Piatt National Park. Sulphursprings predominate, but there are bromide and other springs of medicinal value,besides several fine springs nonmineral in character. Altogether they have anapproximate discharge of nearly five million gallons daily. Many thousands visit these springs eve
. The national parks portfolio. es, which here result in tracery and carvings of the most elaborate and sur-prising description. The park is also a game preserve of unusual merit. THE PLATT NATIONAL PARK COUTHERN Oklahomas famous curative springs were conserved for the^ public benefit in 1906 by the creation of the Piatt National Park. Sulphursprings predominate, but there are bromide and other springs of medicinal value,besides several fine springs nonmineral in character. Altogether they have anapproximate discharge of nearly five million gallons daily. Many thousands visit these springs every year. The country is one ofgreat charm and is notable for its bird life. The waters are bottled andshipped to many parts of the country. SULLYS HILL PARK I HIS reservation is on the shore of Devils Lake, North Dakota, within twomiles of the well-known Fort Totten Indian School. It is a country ofmuch natural beauty and admirably adapted to the purposes of a gamepreserve, for which Congress recently made appropriations. (244). Photograph by (leorge R. King SEA AND MOUNTAIN MEET 1HK National Park Service is represented on the Atlantic coast by Tthe Lafayette National Park in Maine. It includes the splendidgrouping of mountains which begins a mile south of Bar HarborI and covers the southern and western portions of Mount DesertIsland. The reservation is girt with ocean-side drives and surrounded bysummer resorts. The splendid lake-studded lands which compose it werecontributed or purchased by public-spirited citizens and given to the Nationin 1916. Congress made it a national park in 1919. Lafayette offers a marked contrast to the national parks of the is the oldest part of continental America. Its granites were worn by thefrosts, the rains, and the waves many millions of years before the Rockies andthe Sierras emerged from the prehistoric sea. Its deciduous forests rank withthe finest of the Appalachian region. It is the only spot on our Atlantic coast where mountain a
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