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Mr . L . W. Hill :

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St. ?aul , Minn., April 8, 1924

d you herewith copy of Mr.

of April 7 about the allot­

road work .

Ralph BU~

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St. Paul, April 7, 1924

Mr . Ralph Budd -

I noticed in the papers last Friday

night that the Senate had passed the Park Appropriations Bill,

which had previously passed the House on March 18th.

This bill contains the authorization

for the three-year road construction program in the National

rarks, as worked out by llr . Mather, Director of National Parks.

One Million dollars of the entire road fund has. been allotted

to Glacier Park, which will make available for the first year,

$333 .000.00. This means that our road VIo rk in Glacier Park

lilill be pushed.

W. P . Kenney .

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St . P ul, inn. , Au~il 22 . 1924 .

l.r. Ii .. A ... oble:

I w do no no' h ve nter ere if • I

t ink . cicr Park , o .edicine,

Sun C~'P J Qt . .. 1 and. any Gl cier •

If you do not ve i

the attac},ed circUl r from J.err 11 f g quatic arIa ,

shko i , ,1s':-onoin J quotec pl.'ice on pl ts .

auia ' . Iill .

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100 plants at each place, properly located and planted, would start the supply.

Yeu can also get it near Spokane. Louis Davenport could tell you where.

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st. Paul, Minn., Apr. 24th, 1924.

Mr. L. W. Hill, B U I L DIN G.

Dear Sir:

This will acknowledge yours of Apr. 22nd, in refer­ence to getting some water cress growing in the Park and en­closing catalog of Terrell's Aquatio Farm.

I will order some plants at once and have them put in.

You may recall .that we have put in some water creSB Beed several times but did not have much suooess with its growth. The last two years it bas come up in one place, viz! a ditch t s along the edge of the garden. It haa not

much growt uring the summer and the next season it did not come up. As it has not come up in the same place the next season, the gardener thinks perhaps it freezes out before it gets suffioiently rooted.

I am glad to know about the plants, as they will have a chance to get 8 good start before fall.

I will ~ut them in at all the places you mention and hope to make a suocess of it.

Yours truly,

~~ General Manager. __________

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• St. Paul, Minn., April 25, 1924 .

Ralph ~udd - On Line - West.

, . hotels Gla. Natl .Park Your mesaaae about party to operate Erickson auftoQat1ns_

~I ee.· DO harm. 1D sounding him out but do you mean to inte eat­hotels

• him in pur'ohase or lease or only . t~ operate Erickson

Louis Hill •

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DAY LETTER BRIEF 153 r N APR 25TH24.

LOUIS YJHtLL,

STPAU L. , THOUGHT If HE COULD TED IN MANAGEM~NT HE 'IULO 8E 8EST WAN

WE COULD GET AND BELIEVE IS FINANCIALLY AS STRONG AS HE WAS THAT •

WE WGULO eE A$ WELL orr TO LEASE . HE weULD

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St . ul . nn •• April 1J24 .

• R . • fable:

Referring to your etter of the 24t in t .,

bout lanting of tcr cr.3 in Glae:!. r n k!

The ter cress Quld o. pI t d in a p co . • • ere tor lrny runs , but not here the pl nts ill

h ou:t . /

Quia • . Rill .

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39 Arundel Street,

St. Faul , Minn ., ~ 22, 1924.

Yr . George ~-cftsinger . c/o Park Sa.ddle Horse Com.peny.

Kalispell , ont~~a .

Dear Sir : -

I have I"ecently talked i th fr . Louis J . Hill , rcearain poswibility of' securing ou oor work in Glacier Park this summer f and he has suggested I make applicat ion to you , for a position with the ark Saddle Horse Company .

~ I am sixteen years of age ; six feet tB~l ' weigh 140' pounds, and am in good physic .1. condition , ~'1d 'lQu1d 11k to secure work as an assistant gui e or work of a ... imilar nature wi th your company. I do n "C expect to return to sohool' in the fall and, theref re , if the work Vlere available after the rebular Park season clobes, I should like to Stf.4y on after tr.e- Parle season .

Will ap reciate a reply advi~i g .hcther or not you cou.ld place me . I mig .. lt add that I could leave at any time as 1 am net. no{ attendin school.

Ste..mped. and addl'et.sed envelope i5 en loeec. herewith :for rf:.ly .

Yours vary truly.

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• Geor e No!f inger , 0/0 addlo Hor c Company ,

Kalis 11 , ontan .

Dear 1 .

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i a - xpl tory . I i1 ppreciato it if ou

o n pluc this youn n as an 80i t t Duid • or

som hing of hat Dort . e .'

ith kinde t p raon regards, 11 vc' , Your v ry rul~ ,

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON

FOREIGN 8EED A ND PLANT INTRODUOTION

May 26, 1924.

_ r. Charles B. Griffin, Great Jo rthern Railway, st . Paul, Minn.

ear ,{r 0 Griffin :

The world is moving around its circuit again,

and here it is almost time for you to be trekking to

your hotel in Glacier National Park .

You will remember my telling you that we had an

explorer in the great Himalaya mountains of Tibet - -

and that it was possib le that he would send in some

plants which might grow and be protected by the heavy

snows of Glacier National Park. e have ju~t received

a lot of seed of beautiful Rhododendrons and Azaleas

from him, and the thought has occurred to me that

your gardeners at the Glacier National Park are just

the ones to take these seeds and grow the young

plants and establj sh them i'Vhere they will add their

beautiful colors to the landscapes: We do not

know much about the hardiness of these species,

but there are 80 many of them that the probabilities

are that some of them will be adapted to conditions

there. Sha U we send these to you? f't{~

It occurs to me that~L~s Hill, with his great

greenhouse facilities in St. Paul, would be in a

splendid position to grow these Rhododendrons in

flats and send them out to the park and acclimatize

them in sheltered places thereabouts.

The seed is smal l , and we can send you a con-

siderable quantity of each species. Please let me

know about this at your earliest convenience, so that

I can leave instructions here for the seeds to be

sent.

YounJ ve~CerelY,

J~~~. F-S. Agricultural Explorer in Charge.

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!r . Howard. A. Noble, General llauager, Glac ie r ark Hot el Oompany, Great Northern Building, st. aul, ~innesota .

Dear Mr. Hoble:

May 28 , 1924 .

It was my good fortune to be able to make a hurried trip of the entire east side of the park, about ten days ago . r went by motor t o Cut Bank Chalets but was prevented from reaching T\'lO Me icine Ohalets only by high later in the lake , at that time . On M8¥ 17th I drove to >any G1aci er; found the roads i n excellent condition; returned on the 18th to t . fuar,y. nt by motor- boat to Sun Oamp and back; then returneQ to Glacier ark ~tation SUn~ night in a driving blizzard. t • .':>'t . Lary our P30rty was extremely Vle1l cared for and extremely well fed by your care- taker , Oar1 Sieverton. r was very much pleased. to learn from him that he had been assigned the duty of visiting all of your hotels and chalet groups for the purpose of cleaning up those places .

1hthough I realize that I saY, n Oam and any Glacier at a disadvantage from your standpoint because I ent there before you had begun the cleaning up process, I must admit that I felt ver.! st ro ngly t hat cl sa ni ng up was dec ide,ay neee ed . rany Glaci er , particularly , seeme-.l to have an unkept ap~arance and upon careful study of this i 'pression I found it ascribable to several reasons , same of them be.yond your control. The peculiar color of the expose~ r ocks behind the hotel , the dead trees resulting from insect infestation or other causes, are among the contributing features which are quite beyond our control .

However , there is one matter whic h I thin..l{ will help to rectify things to a considerable degree and that is the concen­tration of wood piles . These are banked in every direction out of the hotel and. it is impossible for tourists to come or go wi thout passing through groups of ;firewood piles . During the coming summer I hope you and I Will find it possible to discuss this situation on the ground and make plans for the future concentration of your vlOod supply at Many Glacier , in some place where it will be less unsightly . I am sure that wi th a little thought this can be done and if plans are made sufficiently early it should be accomplisheJ without additional cost to your wood con­tractor.

the old saw mill which still stands at Many Glacier in a conspicuous place . (

I want , also , to discuss the disposition to be made of

~hile at Ma~ Glacier I remembered with something of a thrill that a friend of mine , Professor Joseph Rock , who is a plant

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explorer for the Bureau of Plant Industry , is nmv in the wilds of Northern India or Tibet and that one of his avowed duties is to collect high-altitude ornamental plants which are intended for ex­perimental planting in Glacier Uati onal Park. This announcement was Jmde in the weekly magazine "Science" , several months ago . rofessor Rook was for s everal years Botanist for the Division of Forestry in the Hawaiian Islands and I had the pleasure of taking many botanizing trips with him whi le there . I certainly hope he will find something whioh will help us to cover the unsightly slope behind aDY Glacier Hotel . I bel i eve there is sufficient soil on that slope to retain a shrub growth of some sort; if it proves to be a flowering shrub it should convert the. present unsightly hill side into an object of beauty .

I am looking fOlWard to the pleasure of meeting you in the near future and disoussing some of our mutual problems in the field .

Very truly yours ,

Chas . J . Kraebel,

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~:r . L. ;- . Hill,

Dear }tr. Pi 11 :

I am att aching 8 let ter 1'ecei ve from r."" <..ir-c} ild of' the Bureau of Plant Industry at '~ ashington and aleo e copy of my reply. If YOl ",ish you rnE'.y r e tain Ir. Fnirc:tjld ' s letter as I }1ave m de a cop;, of it for my filf c •

:'be gardner ~ere 9.t th e Park rAsd t e Ie tter OVE'r and 1'e BRid th t the Rhododendrons ;ould not be suitable for the Park a.~ t e climflte wa too severe. 1 asked him ho they v;o'llCl do for the California climate and rf' said tret was just the ~lace for them. r:vr:e gArdner s"'lid the l.hododendron is [' very lar q;e plant. ossi bly cov~rj nf a

--- space lOxlO and tJ:'1 e -flo'V'ers were about t e size of a cocoa­rlU t • I t ought per}1a. s yo' W01' I'. be in t pr~ ete d in receiv ing some of these seeds f r your Californi pl _ce.

If there is an yth i ng you ish me to do in conne c­tion with tris, r1eac:-,e let rre now.

CBG:"HB

St. P ul. inn. flY 31. 1924.

llr. D ~ld B. rOO11d. r1 cul tur 1 Expl or r if! Charge

Bur eau 0 f Plant Industry, , hin ton, D.C.

'a1rc i1 :

I em in I' e c i p t 0 f your 1 tt r 0 f f. 2 6 . ' You r oorrect

loav1n for mowrta. ns.

in as uming t~ t re folM OO~ tel and Gl i r Par., y . • we le :ve toni ,t fo .... t I will be in Bro 'nln [on dey, Jun - 3d and oall ell . on Yr. Camp

Ind d v 1'y kin d of you tAl B se d i oh your exY)lol'er 41 OVe d in t n1na of Tl t • , will b pl ad to a ttention nd might also d t t have Hol.lend rc ner 6t th Park who l'1.1lB been

e. ons and I know that h 11 and caring for the Be d. I will OV l' so hat he 'Will underst nd

1. o · kin g oOPY of Y l' let l' for • .111. I fe 1 qu~ e ure th·i; he 11 b 1n tareet . d in reo i in tb s d. Ir. Hill i Ie in g for urope th la.t tel' p t of Jun bu lIO doubt you ill h r fro h in t 00' at t1 •

r • Fairchild , your If elld I a sure yOll it will b '"1 pl 11 ure to s ow you around. Th 1'0 hQ ~ b en

improvam nt'S ill th Park, bu • Campbell ha mad t improv m nte in agricultural 11 ye with th Indi m on 1'e rv t1on.

With kind at per onal re ard to all, I f.

Your inc erely ,

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ei'orrin ~ tQ yo'r letta:r 0 Ju.YJ .1 . dth

which you enelo ed cor ponden e you have tid j:.th

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ThankIng you for your trou 1 in } e

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Yours ery t ul r ,

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