The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.91-92

There is but very little of the large game of the park that enters the reservation at any time of the year. I believe it would be a great injustice to the Blackfeet Indians to take the part of the reservation that contains practically all of the timber the Indians have for their use and give it to the Glacier National Park, and I feel it my duty, as Agent for these Indians, if such is contemplated, to protest against the same. It appears to me that Glacier National Park has all of the scenery and the Indians cannot afford to lose this land. We have on this reservation many intelligent Indians and men of business ability who can, if given the opportunity to be heard, explain these matters successfully and satisfactorily to the Office.”

Jim Hill writes the Secretary of the Interior,

“For the purposes of rendering the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains within the Glacier National Park accessible to the public and thereby increasing its business, said railway company desires and proposes to construct and maintain a public wagon-road from its line of railway to a point on or near the upper St. Mary’s Lake and also to construct a telegraph and telephone line along and upon said road. The company desires to locate, construct and maintain hotels, and resting places, and said company desires to enter upon adjacent [Indian] lands and take thereon from rock, gravel, sand, and other material required in the construction of the proposed road and hotels, and that the company should not be charged for the timber or other material taken from the adjacent land. The survey shows that little merchantable timber will be destroyed in the clearing of the 50 foot strip of timber for right-of-way. The Great Northern Railway Company, therefore, respectfully requests that it be authorized and empowered to construct and maintain the wagon road and telegraph and telephone line hereinbefore mentioned and take from the right-of-way such road and from adjacent land timber, earth, stone, and other material used in construction of such road and hotels and lines, By James J. Hill, President.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.91-92