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...last session of Congress, Senator Clarence C. Dill, a Democrat from Washington, introduced a resolution to change the name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma. The Senate approved the resolution and it went to the House where it now rests in the Committee of Public Lands, which has asked the U. S. Geographic Board for a report on the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mountain | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...northern Pacific and around the world, set down in his journal that "the weather was serene and pleasant, and the country continued to exhibit between us and the eastern snowy range the same luxuriant appearance. ..." The round, snowy mountain, now forming its southern extremity . . . after my friend Rear Admiral Rainier, I distinguished by the name Mount Rainier." So it was known afterwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mountain | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...milling town on Commencement Bay was named Tacoma. In 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway located its western terminus on Puget Sound and called the place New Tacoma. In 1883, the Northern Pacific Railway announced that on its maps and guide books "the Indian name" Tacoma would supplant Mount Rainier. A powerful director of the railroad, who was President of the Tacoma Land Company, booming the new town, saw to the changing of the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mountain | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...Names composed of ten representatives?two from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, one each from the State Department, Lighthouse Board (Treasury), Engineer Corps (Army), Hydrographic Office (Navy), Post Office Department, Smithsonian Institution, two from the Geological Survey?considered and unanimously decided that the proper name of the mountain was Rainier. In 1917, on a rehearing, the same Board reaffirmed its position, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mountain | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...entering Yellowstone National Park exceeded 2,000, although the greatest daily record for 1922 was 1,983. Three parks, Yellowstone (Wyo.), Platt (Okla.), Yosemite (Calif.), had received more than 100,000 visitors by Aug. 15. Hot Springs National Park (Ark.) had 98,580 visitors by the same date. Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.), 83,888. Last year over 1,200,000 people visited 19 parks. This year the number is expected to surpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Lavishers | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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