The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-02-08

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have been overcome BY new and additional
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tendent, Mr.. Finn.
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Lowell.
Mr.. Pomeroy, Of Kansas, has introduced
q bill in the United Staies Senate, which, We
hope, under proper restrictions, will become
lava bill setting apart the wonderful
valley and it, strange and mssniaoe.t sur.
roundings at the head Of the YELLOWSTONE
River, in the Rocky Mountain Territory Of
Wyoming, as national PARK, to the extent
Of forty-four miles BY forty. Mr.. Pomeroy
desires to have this region Of unparalleled
wonders dedicated to the nation al once, in
order to prevent it falling into the hands OF
squatters. and interruptions land spectators
This is a beautiful idea; and while YET there
are no squatters on the ground Congress ought
to secure the district indicated to the whole
people OF the United States and their de-
scendents forever. There is no such group.
ing anywhere else in the world of the::beauti-
ful, the magnificent, the grand, the sublime
and wonderful in natare a. We have seen in
this marvellous Plutonic region of the Vel
lowstone; and, as the giant cedars of Mari
posa and the glorious mountain walls aad
domes of Yosemite have been given to the
State of California, 90 should this yellow.
stone region be gwen to the people Of the
United States to prevent is dis6gursiion by
squatters and spectators, with their '.gin.
mills" sawmills and chemical factories, and
in order to make it 4 national park which
will ;:~''" strangers to the Undesirable at.
trac;,' .om all parts Of the world. Even
in t.. ness point Of view this il the bes,
use To- .rich this districs can Le applied fol
the ro i,:e and for the national Treasury.
W. tt. ght occupy page Of the Herald
with H., descriptions before Us of these re.
Gently dacovered facinafing wonders of the
Yellowstone, but for gent raj idea of them
few words will, perhaps, be sufficient.
They lie in labyrinth of the R,cky Noun.
tains, on the eastern side of the main chain,
in the Territory Of Wyoming, some two hun.
dre,i and fifty miles north Of the Union Pa.
cifc Railroad, and from that road, over that
singularly rough country, the approaches
to these Yellowstone wonders are equal to q
summers campaign. As Fremont describes
the valley Of the Snake River, west of the
Rocky Mountains, this whole region Of the
Upper Yellowstone, it NAV be truly said, il
a volcanic region-a land of fracture and
violence and FIRE" The deep basaltic chasm
through which the river winds its way, the
extinct craters in the surrounding mountains
changed into lakes, but, more than all, the
thousands Of boiling springs and the enor.
nous geysers Of this extraordinary region,
betray the volcanic forces which have opera.
ted here and which are still in active opera.
ton.
Here, will, their wild, strange and sub.
lime surroundings, We have waterfalls which
make even Niagara tame affair, and lake,
the circuit Of which is nearly Two hundred
miles, more attractive than the lakes oil
Switzerland Here We have river which,
in its deep canyon for thirty miles, is even
during the brightest day mostly in the dark.
Here We have towering river walls, painted
by the action Of the air and water upon their
mineral deposits IN all the colors of the rain.
bow. Here, on the mountain sides, We have
clusters of hot springs, discharging
their water from terrace to terrace
in numerous and magnificent pools, the
terraces and the pools, from their mineral
coating, having all the appearances of ala.
baster or of marble of different colors. Here
We have fountains discharging black and rcd
mud, fountains of water white as milk; and
here, in the ''Fire Hole Basin," We have
geysers which eclipse those Of Iceland in
their numbers and their strepgth-a most
astonishing sight one OF them dicharxing Q
column of water twelve feet in diameter, to a
a height of over 200 feet. And clouds Of
steam rise from this basin rs the smoke Of
a city in flames, Here We have natural
dOmes, spires, castles, towers, turrets and
Notifications, in numberlest fantastic forms,
and the widest groupings Of mountain
peaks and pinnacles and ridges, rising from
ten to twelve thousand feet above the sea.
In short, here, including the most beautiful
virgin forests Of pines, We have l wilderness
of wonderful things, with which n, thing can
be produced for comparison on the face. OF
the globe.
We have heretofore spoken of all that
great division Of the Continent, extending
from the great plains to the Pacific Ocean as
the Asia,ic section Of the United States. And
SO it is; and while in its climate and In its
geographical and geological peculiarities it
reiembles c. n,ral and Western Asia, the
country east Of the Mississippi may be as
aptly called European in its character For
instance, touching our Asis,ic section, on the
coast region Of California we have The land
Of the Philistines over again; in the Great
Salt Lake Of Utah We have duplicate Of the
Dead Sea of the Holy Land; in the deserts Of
Nevada We have the land Of Moab; in Colo
RADIO we have the Caucasus, and it is probable
that, with complete exploration Of those
great Siberian rivers-the Obi, the Yeneisi
and the Sena and their t. ibu,aries-ihey will
he found in their awful canyons to resemble
the Snake River, the Columbia and the Colo
RADIO, more or less. But, while We shall
have to explore the iii,nalsyas for the won
ders Of Yosemite. and will have to 70 to
Australia for match for 'the Mother of
the Forest" Of Mariposa, there is only ore
region in all the world in which We can find
all the wonders of the yellow stone, and that
is the region which Senator Pomeroy pro-
poses to dedicate, and which we ,r,is, will be
dedicated i.y Congress, To the people Of the
United States rs, par ereeftraec, the National
Park.