Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-27
The Trout Fishing aud Scouting
Springs Of the Yellow stone.
"e"eT@ She'r'r'H s Il III


Up 10 this time We had seen ~ Reysers or
hot springs, but the next day. III gh7 IN Ies M
from The tails, We came la sulphur VI 1un-
tain, bare, nakei, repulsive NIL not of
large extent, at the base of which were not
bubbling springs with sll the ppud criSn with
suiLhar, and six miles from there up, or
snd camped al NJ nd Springs TlsSe ais, are
hot, most q then mUddF. Water slash d
around AS In a boiling pot Some were nud-
dy water and others tlick mud putting up
just like vast pot OF muSh. Relotg the falls
the Yellowstone Is a rapid. bold. curre,It OF
water, so full OF real SIP csled trout WEI Oh
Ing from SIX ounces tn four AID a-lI4lf
F. uhd.. mar. ~ me language o. "A settler, il
i nc "trick at all to eaten them" They will
pie ~ an artificial fly. or. better AT A live
graSshopper. which abound mere: bnt abDye
the falls the river is quie,. flowilg between
low, grassy banks, and hnaily ending or
rain beglnning, In the Yellowstone Lake,
also alive with real specsled trout SrloV
the falls these trout ara splendid eating bat
allow by reason Of the hot water some of
The NIB are wormy and generally obnoxious
by reason thereof, though men pretend %
distinguish the good frO-u the b4 by the
coior OF the spots / have no ue.ftaIipn in
EI'htuat M the T-lioVsI ore rrarn IL Big
He'i 70 u ource the must .-p't n-hing
r m tn &0d Sp- NJ l-a ira. d, due .ysst.
a.. oS~s- - moan ain TAusc Nsa.-a ~an-
sratge tie le 'owStOne I'm IN VI .H.Son,
tot f. iba aries - tn Missouri. d,.reads
Ills n b toy To the we for6 ~ i.s Nal
Is b., a d n = i the ."wss gey-er btsin L.
s",s'ts ia a y It F2Ust >Gffi, Joc 5pr n
IL say h e. he Lower ,rar-e- f..el.a r~,,san's
81 strie- ~ o. PR = '- ar-irS %! va--r
"tn'Cg III f. te,os . -goa.h a. >r.II
you. ana. 'pi = IA q, tE.SJ ~ anvthins
Use. rteFI as uTTs-g.. .rI... D. / ...a % ..va-y
r' vab! shape, fr3r- e O. rIaunifi "a
wa.Ei,e snrnnE snd sr-uga n.y. r, IS
thai in moment he may brea'; noah and
be- lost in SPECIES of hell
THF SCOUTING GEYsERS
- Y II n no
me Upper HeA ser b SIN. he Sp'ntiug geyS-r,
the real o2ject aud aim Of our VS. r. de-
scribe these IN detail would Surp9Ss my anil
ity or the compass Of n letter, Tn nave
been described b Lieut.. Duane HiyI.f
SIoug. LoId Duran and many others rhs
mars by Major Ludlow of tn engineers To-
Gale he several geysers accurately We
reached thu Upper q y-pr Basin a'-t2 m ono
Gay ami remained Their. II d. in of the
net. During that time we saw ths old
- aIthiul' perform At intervals VARYING
from sixty two minutes Ia eign.y minutes
The intervals vary. but the perform anca only
varies with The wind and snn TIA cone. or
Dill. l. of soft. drcayiug linn b.. but i'm nell.
a'eiy about the hole, which j. irregular about
SIX iett across. iucrustafipn i ha YdSo ne 50
that one can look in safety wlel tna geyser
is ~ rest. So regular are lis psrip Is Of actiy-
ity that tould foreiel its movements
within II few minutes. Sometimes We StoDi
near enough to feel the hot spray at Others
we sat at our camp, about three hu ldr red
yards away. Each eruption was ST ar,
PR ceGed by about five minutes Of splu TER.
Ing, and then would arise a column OF hot
water, sfeanling and smoking, to the height
OF one hundred and twenty-five or one hun-
dTei and thirty feet, the steam going hun
dred or more feet higher, according TO the
state OF the wind IL was d. fiji 'ult 10 say
where the water ended and steam b gan. AMI
TINS must be the reason why diff ut OBJ
servers have represented diff rent results
The whole performance lasts about Il ye m n
ues, when The column of water graluillv
Silks and the spring assn nsS its nor nal
stale OF rest. This is but one of some twenty
OF The active geySers of this basin For the
time we remained we were lucky, for we saw
the Re Hive Troyes in eruption. The IOWA
a d GrottO were repeatedly in agitation,
though their Jets dill not rise more than
twenty feet. We did not see the Clan or the
Grand in eruption. but they seemed busy
et ough in bubbiing and boiling. One is fair
ly hewildered by the variety, extent AMI ac-
tiviiy of these boiling and b abiding columns
OF hot water. They do not seem to ma TO be
volcanic, but rather the result of the chemi-
cal action underneath, which produces heat
and gases, which give force and activity 70
these geySers. Externally they are not as
beautiful as the formation of lima untar
Waier-c XquiSite in form but crum ding in
the hand and Stacking W n dry. The Spaci-
meiS gathered by the curious and carrie off
amount to nothing. The real thing * the
qUanti7y, variety and forms OF &C ion of
ntS A pf-T