Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-08


evenly deep sheet of clear ice water
leaping down at one bound from it
ledge four hundred and fifty feet, un
/ broken by any rocky point or casead
turning, snowy column, the Water
pausing in the pool where they Gligh
for moment, as if stunned and TAX
ing breath before they rush headlons
away down the deep windings of tn,
canon.
The spray and mist rise a hundred
feet in clouds and columns above the
pool and by their condensation auc
! precipitation have reared I'D quite Z
beautiful grass plot away down there
on the falls. Nowhere else below
with the exception Of the marginal.
of the springs in a few cases, doe.
anything appear to grow on the bare
hot face of the rocks -s....
The river at the brink Of the fall
is about 80 feet in width, and about
five feet deep at this season of the
year.-Less than half a mile above
are the Upper Falls, 150 feet high,
and very handsome. From the falls
on our way to the lake we passed over
an extre ely interesting region, inter
spersed with boiling sulphur springs
and
MUDDY BUBBLE POTS
or puffs. One of these mud springs
bOils up at intervals of every five or
six hours, playing out the semi-fiuid
/ contents of its crater to a height OF
l3 to . feet from ten to twenty
minutes.
Toward the close of July we emerg-
ed from dense pine forest, and came
out upon the beach of
TIE BEAUTIFUL YELLOWSTONE
LAKE. @
A more enchanting view Of water and
land / never witnessed.
We came out upon the western side
and near the outlet. To our left, on
the east, in sharp relief appeared the
continuation Of the rugged range first
mentioned in this letter; tothe south,
almost mirrOred in the still waters of
the lake, loomed up the TetOns of
Snake river Il50 miles distant, Iwhiie
the high, densely timbered ridges
on our right and the ridges shut out
from view the mountains at the head
quarters of the Madison. =
The lake is thirty miles at the points
Of its greatest length, and nearly
twenty in width between the SOUTH
east and southwest arms, and presents
a shore line of deep indentations anu
inlets that will measure more than
one hundred and fifty miles.
took a small canvass cOverep boat
which We had packed up here, on
mule back, in sections, and spent
seven days in following the bends and
bay aud inlet lines Of the lake, max
ing thereby a map Of the same, which
1 gave to DR.. Hayden as my first
typographical or rather hydrOgraphi.
cal, survey book. A system Ofregular
soundings was then taken up, and
the greatest depth to be found did
not exceed much over four hundred
feet. r -
wORSIY TROUT.
The water of the lake is very clear
and cold, in places it is thick and and
green with countless millions Ofsmall
algae; il is well stocked, like the
river, with trout of some great size,
but strange to say, all the fish caught
by us above the falls and in this lake
were too wocmy to be used As food,
their external condition, however, is
as good as that of their comrades in
the river below.
L now come to speak of the great
sensation 4 %
THE WONDERFUL GEYsERs OF THE
FIRE HOLE BASIN,
at the headwarters Of the Madison,
which in magnitude and extent Of
area, reduce those of Iceland to utter
insignifieanee.
have stood by a crater, and have
seen a column OF hot tbOiliDgl water
six feet in diameter, ascend With a
single bound, vertically, 70 height
of 200 feet-pause there for an instant,
and fall to its silieified basin in a
thousand watery streams, and a mil |
lion prismatic drOps'-This was re-
peated ten or fifteen minutes, than
all would be quiet, the water of the |
cfstern become as still as that of a /
mill pond, and apparently as inactive. /
This geyser, which is one of many,
we named the Grand. 1t PLAYS at /
irregular intervals Of a to 80 hours, |
for from 10 to 20 minutes. Another, |
named by DOane, "Old Faithful - !
plays at intervals of only an hour I
apart, throwing up an immense
steady column to an elevation Of $50 /
feet. ....
In this Geyser region, which win |
more than cover an area of ten miles |
there are at least fifty geysers, ten of
them Of the first magnitude, and over I
a thousand boiling springs DIR. I
accompanied by SehOnborn, /
the topographer, and Peale, the /
Chemist, made visit 10 all Of them, /
and aseertained their temperatures. /
located them on q chart |
and Peale bottled and assayed the /
water and deposits of silica, lime, I
etc / have made fifty pre- /
sketches of them, while /
Jackson has photographed them most 1
so th.t we can, think, /
supply all the demands that scientific /
minds can make upon US for material /
from which to generalize.
We left the lake on the 23d of i
August after making avery Thorough /
examination of the country known !
rs the Yellowstone Basin. I may i
say, in conclusion, that we expert |
enced very lively shock from I
AN EAhTHQUAKE,
At l O'Clock of the morning OF the 10th |
Of August, while in camp at a point |
on the east side of the lake, where a
number of hot springs are in opera !
ton. The shock was distinctly felt |
by Col. Barlow's party, eamped % |
miles south of Us, as we'll as by an
other party of our men who were out |
on the other side of the lake, Is miles
west 81 Us. IL came through Camp |
like a wave from the north to the
south, startling the whole caravan to !
its feet; a low rumbling roar accom-
panied the Jar. -...
We are now about to leave for home,
and am free in thinking that no ex-
peditiOn ever returned more richly
freighted with new material.
Yours very truly, II. w, ELLIOTT.
Jim Fisk's ''womann sues him for
$50, 600 which she had putin his hands
for speculative purposes. and which
he, after the ''gum" business, refuses