The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-09-03
OUR ARTIST ABROAD!
Graphic Pencil Sketches OF
the National Park.

Graphic Pencil Sketches OF
the National Park.
Correspondence OF the New Northwest.
On the 18th went from the Firehole TO the Upp'
Geyser Basin-dIstance. ten miles. had the plea
ure OF witnessing hourly eruptions Of Old Faithfl
and grand dislay of
THE GIASrEss,
Which occurs every sixteen eighteen hours Sh
does net spout high man. OF the other geyserf
but sends upward her boiling flood, resembling !
size and form hay stack some eighty or ninety fec
high,
At eight O'Clock In The evening
THE BEEHIVE,
The most graceful aud beautiful of all the geyser
that saw, threw her slim, graceful column, w'thor
losing drop, to the heighth of 900 feet and then
a beautiful the stream fell to the wiudward in
to the river, washing the base of Its cone. At seve
O'Clock In the morning the eruption repeated an
so every morning end evening while was there. Tn
united streams from o hundred steam fire engine
would not represent the yoIrme of " iter throw
from this one cater, The at of the crater is no
more than eighteen inches by twelve In size and da
mond shaped. The tremendous pressure of the waite
forced through 1t the earth to trembe for hal
thunder.
THE scHUaZ PARTY.
On Sunday morning, the 18th INST, while writing
up some notes at Calfees camp, Dear the Castle Gey
ter, suddenly head the tramp of horsemen. Tn,
column stopped and was introduced TO secnetar
Sehurz, General Crock and large number CT gentle
men on horseback. 1t was my second morning In tn
Basin and was timing Old Faithful. n two minutes
her fiuU dua 60 I info arfv ay,f
told them they could see a grand eruption IL the.
would ride fast. They started on gallop, call n,
on me to follow. 1t was good half mile and the.
arrived within two hundred yards Just the first Jet
Of hot water shot upward, and 1t was very amusing
TO see their horses cavo right and left at the unusu
al sight Military discipline prevailed and in less thar
two minutes the horses in the handle of orderlie
and the party was close to the geand Jet of Ok
Faithful viewing the display, which listed ten min.
utes. It had not ceased playing when shout wal
heard away back:
THE CASTLE GEYsER.
/" See the Castle; fhe's spoutingr We turned ant
ran back toward her. With others / secured posi-
tioa where we could see the vast column Of watel
thrown up freed from the usual steam, which wal
blown away by a northeast wind.
For nearly an hour this splendid geyser continued
heghth Of two hundred feet, which was proven By
two tdanguIa oas.
just as this disp,ay was over the time of o'd
display aud threw up her great column over hund cd
feet high for ten mindie,.
These displays were oil the schurz-Crook party saw
Mr. Calfee, the photographer from Eozeman, who has
taken views in the Park for the past seven years. said
he ~ nqye tva haiti
plays. So the party was fo .uua'e. At my instance
they visited the plateau on which the Giantess is sit
uased rnd Its great seagreen crater and the severs
boiling springs aound kept them 70 nearly an hour.
But time piess and they had to leave.
The party went over the trail by Shoshone Lake to
the Yellowstone Lake, viewing the Upper and Lower
Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone river
and other scenery and returned 10 the Lower Fehoe
Basin on Thursday morning. at o'clock.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
The parties consisted o, the following named per-
sons Secretary Carl schurz, Mr. Hanna, his private
Secretary; Mr.. Meyer, his nephew, his guest from
Eoiope, MI, Gaulliers and Webb Hayes, son Of the
President.
Gen. Crooks party consisted of inset, Col STAN
ton, Col. Luddington, Col Thornbnrp, Lieut.. Burke,
and Capt. Roberts, aides, and Maj Brainridge. Of F.
place. They left the Utah. q Northern railroad at
Camas station and came into the Psrk bv Henrys
Lake. a.t
At ten O'Clock the tents were struck, the camp equ
page loaded and the parties started for the Mammoth
Hot Springs -distsnce, 90 miles.
From here Mr.. Schury said b would 90 by the way
Of Clsrks Fork to the Crow agency-not having time
to visit any of the towns Of kontana-to endeavor to
l. ~
Washington laat spring for the cession OF the upper
or west end Of the present Crow reservation from
Boulder Creek, which will rclude the Clarke's Fork
mines; also, to secure the right of way across the
for the Northern Pacific railroad IL he
secures these objects the ,uutry will him many
obligations. ... ..-#
NORRIS A FAILURE.
Mr. Schurz also visited the Park for the express
purpose Of seeing what improvem ents had been made
by Superintendent p w. Norris out of the ga, 900
heretofore appropriated by Congress and what further
work 10 needed to make the Park accessible.
As far as could judge from conversation With the
gentlemen composing his party and oil the other vie
tors met feel jus tiff ID ~ saying that not
pleased with the work done 60 f,r. The roads are
outrageous. A m n cannot ride bis hJrse mp come of
hem. I had to wa and lead mine over the steep
:annot much more than draw an empty wagon over
he steepest places Mr.. Schurz party had to put all
" their mules each separate wagon to get over.
!: It is 90 all over the Park. There Is not mnle
driver or bull wha kcr in Montana bat who could and
would make better roads over the mountains and
through the Park thu our old tcssilifcrous friend
Norris has made. re don't know how to get down a
mountain only by the shortest and steepest way He
sal~ .t,a "a L. L.,
ase Of mountain than 1t is over the top, so up and
Town he goes. : rhe worst is he won't take advice
rom any one, but goes his own way. like mad
'ull. A.. .... ...
Co, Norrs'greatest weakness is his vanity. He i'm
every visitor with the idea that he made the
lark thousand years B. G. Uncle Jim Gsmble says
e carried the mortar TO make the eeyser, and the
pes to carry the hot water were fix ID in place almost
efcre Adam was born.
Col. Norris locked as old tn ms he does now The
reatest fault find with him 10 that be has changed
Id names that were wen known before he came to the
ark. He has changed Gibbons Fork to Norris
'ork. and Gibbons Geyser Basin to Norris Geyser
'lateau- He csims to bare discovered obsidian
lount ain, specimens from which Lieut.. Doane gave
10 after his trip with Surveyor General Washburne
a 1870, Also that he discovered trails and passes,
hitch he has named after himself, that habitu-
l'y used by trappers and miners before he ever
be Park. "%
thought befo re came here was to see the sYEL-
ewsroHE NATIONAL PAsE," but find that am |
imply paying visit to "NoRRIs' PARK." So, / am |
like many Others.
The following extract from letter BY "Tourist" |
correspondent OF the Bozemas Ardnt Courier, tells
ractiy how you will find It in the Park, according
Norris" 1854 a#T Hswt4esae
/" For the information of those who may Be IN the
eyser Basin and DESTROYS o. getting ont, append |
10 following guide or directory Take the Norris
agon road and follow down the Norris fork of the
lrehoe river to the Norris Canyon Of the Norris
bsidian Mountain; then on to Mount Norris.on the
immit OF which you VIII fud Monument Park, or
le Norris Blow Out, and at its northery base the
orris Basin and Park. Further on Won win come to
70 Norris Geyser Plateau and must not fall to zee
e Geyser Norris The Norris Falls Of the GIbbon
e worth visit. The next point of Interest is the |
orris Bridge over the Norris Fork of the Gibbon. |
III days ride from the Norris Mammoth Hot |
priugs. Should p. w. Norris, Superintendent and
oprietor Of the Norris Yellowstone National Park,
cceed In his effort TO secure thirty years lease,
en- have the PARK fenced and the fence painted rcd
vandalism and the slaughter Of game win cease
ID the old man be snpremely happy. ! might add
mt j, W. N. 10 not practical road builder, bat has
o happy faculty Of spending great deal Of money
very little icad.r tfg bsss.s-4s
Mr.. Norris barely comedies tbst some one else dis
vered the Park before him. Yet he claims to have