. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. itorial gamewardens under his direction. Promptly upon passage of the actcreating the park an estimate for an appropriation in the sum of$10,000 for protective and improvement purposes was submitted toCongress, but this failed to receive favorable consideration in eitherthe Sixty-fourth or the Sixty-fifth Congresses. The estimate hasbeen again submitted in the regular estimates for the 1919 fiscalyear. FIRST NATIONAL PARK EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Within a short time there will be a national park established in
. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. itorial gamewardens under his direction. Promptly upon passage of the actcreating the park an estimate for an appropriation in the sum of$10,000 for protective and improvement purposes was submitted toCongress, but this failed to receive favorable consideration in eitherthe Sixty-fourth or the Sixty-fifth Congresses. The estimate hasbeen again submitted in the regular estimates for the 1919 fiscalyear. FIRST NATIONAL PARK EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Within a short time there will be a national park established inthe southern Appalachian Mountains under the authority containedin the sundry civil act approved June 12, Doubtless the newpark will be called Grandfather Mountain National Park, because thefamous peak that will form its center has long been known as the Grandfather. The tract will be donated to the Federal Govern- NAT/ONAL PARK PROJECT//VCLUD/A/GGRANDFATHER MT/V. VIRGINIA TENN LINNVILLE RIV R 0CONNECTS ATJOHHSONCITY, TENN., WITH THESOUTHERNS ft. ANDCAR. CLIN ANDOHIO/?, f?. if oldsbpro {J^=d^-J J V> ^C-HnHiras ayjftev//(e MewbeTrfy uforfj 0Cape Lookouts, AtCape Fear ^ Principal Railroads in North Carolina and Location of Proposed GrandfatherMountain National Park. ment by public-spirited citizens of North Carolina and will be a veryvaluable addition to our national playground system. The servicewill publish a detailed description of the area, with full data as to itslocation, means of access, etc., as soon as the transfer of the propertyhas been completed. Grandfather Mountain was said by the early settlers to have re-ceived its name because it was supposed to be the highest mountainin the East when measured from its base in the Johns Kiver Valleyto the peak. While it does not rise to as great a height as MountMitchell, the base of its eastern slope is probably a thousand feetlower than the base of Mount Mitchell. Taking in consideration its 1 See p. °—in
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