Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-22

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will give YOUR readers brief sketch
If the location and characteristic fea-
tures of This marvellous region. having
lived from 1866 to 1875 at Virginia City,
Montana Territory, which is the nearest
town to the Park, and having with my
wife and daughter made two trips through
it; one in 1878 and the other in 1875, and
having studied with care everything Of
consequence written about it.
Of course, no full account can be writ
ten (even if your space would allow of its
publication of country so large and so
Astounding with wonders, which does not
contain single permanent habitation of
civilized man, much Of which is as yet
wholly unexplored, through nearly all OF
which the travel must be on horseback
along bride trails, large portion of
which is covered with primeval forests,
and all of which is mountainous coun-
try, its valleys averaging some hundreds
Of feet higher than the submits of Mt.
Washington and Mt. Black, the culminat-
ing points of the eastern half of the con-
tinent. 1t is located (as any good atlas
published in the last two years will show
in the northwest corner Of Wyoming
Territory, but is surrounded by such lofty
and rugged mountains on the southeast
that the only practicable routes for enter
inn it are through Montana Territory.
About sixty-five by tifty-five miles in ex-
tent, situated between. forty-four degrees
and forty live degrees north latitude at
an elevation above the sea of from six
thousand to thirteen thousand feet, and
living on both sides of the main range of
the Rocky Mountains, though mostly on
tho east side, its altitude and latitude
make it worthless for agricultural pur-
poses, and being a volcanic district it
contains no metals or minerals sufficient
ly valuable to pay for their transporta-
ton out of so rugged a country. The
following specially wonderful and unique
features of the Park, at some not far dis
tant day will make it among the most ia
NOUS. as it is now the most marvellous of
all known regions:
First-The Geyser Basins, with their
thousands of hot springs, and numerous
mud geysers, as we'll as the grandest wa
ter geysers in the world, grandest in the
volume of water they throw, and
the enormous height to which it is
projected, and also in the wonderful
beauty of the crsters, basins and vents
throug ID which they discharge, with their
delicate ornamentation and brilliant col
oring, built up and adorned by the min
erals deposited by the hot siliceous wa
tiers. There three of these Geyser Basins,
one (never visited by tourists because
there is no trail to it, situated on the
west side of the main range, on the Sho-
shone Fork of the Snake River, and the
other two on the Fire Hole Fork of the
Madison. They contain more geysers
than are known to exist in all the world
besides, and spout columns of boiling wa
ter, VARYING from few inches 20 twenty
feet in diameter, to different heights from
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