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tory,Mexico Would Be Invited I ?ot® u; to Cooperate In ‘GoodWill’ ProjectinW-SoultourSatvTichaiWASHINGTON, March 4 —llt Establishment of an international j sPea peace park on the Mexican border , orat in the Big Bend area of Southwest- | wen ay em Texas was recommended to 100 President Roosevelt today by Sec-x retary Ickes.V1 In a report concerning advisabll-08nrl ity of setting aside a triangular . area of 5,500 square miles there for a national park, Ickes said, the peace park established in 1932, link-1 * ing Canada’s Waterton Lakes park | and the Glacier National park in ck Montana.n If congress authorizes the Big ‘nt Bend park, he suggested the Mexi-ftfl can government be invited to co-operate by establishing a park on ; the Mexican side, the two to serve as a memorial to good will, friend-on ship and peace.t,s The two parks would be admin-5m istered and financed by their re-nt spective governments, but from the lds standpoint of recreation they would nd! merge into one. at‘ The contemplated Big Bend park area is traversed by the Chlsos mountain range, southernmost United States spur of the Rockies, i ien with the Rio Grande cutting a rtU chasm through the virgin and vlr-ids tually uninhabited country.wenfinaaftesasTeafoursityspe?wonMReeter-havMai(Teera’Louothlt;Ttou:collFCIckes told the president thatscenic standards of the Mexican side equalled that on the Texas side, | and that prospects of an inter- j 11 | national park there were highly intriguing. The forest on both sides is still virgin, the country is rampant with wild game and natural life, there are no railroads in the area, and the few roads reaching into the area are makeshift trails.Isrenral,usthaltthe Christmas seals sale only means the organization has for raisingE
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Abilene Morning News
Abilene, Texas, US
Tue, Mar 05, 1935
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