The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-06

gle Orange that would have made a full
load for whole train of freight cars.
Boiling water emerged from three
orifces and flowed down its sides and is
slowly building up its walls, following
the course of the sun in ceasless rounds
At the south ori6ce tIle yellow sulphur
in liquid form hissed and sputtered like
den of angry snakes. This sulphurous
liquid is what gives this cone its golden
hue.
"Here we see young geyser cone at
work building itself up with walls as
solid as granite and as beautifully colored
as the xainbow," said Col. Ordway.
at is very wonderful, and this one
thing is worth the journey ola thousand
miles to see, if there were nothing more, y
said the senior Mr. Keese.
"This unconscious mass works like a
beam and paints itself with the most
consunmaA sEill;p said Col. Clough.
The young Mr.. Keese said little, but
his kindling eye revealed the working Of
a cultured brain.
GLOW my old tutor Agassiz would have
enjoyed such spectacle as this" said
Col. Ordwsy.
GLOW my old schoolmate, professor
Winchel would have been enraptured to
see and baas reasoned to explain this
phenomenal manifestion of nature" said
Col. Glough.
Where we stood on the fiat end of this
geyser, three hundren men canld have
found room to stand and yet when we
reached the ground and looked back
toward the spot, it seemed as though
there would have been but standing
room for three.
We left the road at this point and 60
ing in circuitous direction northeast,
we reached
( GREAT BATH LAKE.
One thousand people can take COM
Portable bath in this great natural basin
at one time. All that is needed is a
dressing house to accommodate bathers
with the usual bathing dresses and
| towels.
| The temperature is 1907. There is a
hard crust, painful to the naked feet, fol
the first two yards from the shore; then
you tread a floor as softas velvet ,aAd when
you reach a depth of four feet you are
buoyed up in the most delightfully."- trans
parent emerald lake, in which you may
remain for hours aad come ouk refreshed
and clean, needing no soap, and nc
physician; but your own good sense te
guide you.
The diameter Of the lake is about three
or four hundred feet, and about nine fee,
deep at the center, where the. bubbles
rise and burst as If boiling, but the tenn
perature is exactly the same as at the
margin.
At the east side of the lake we clam.
bered up some thirty feet, where we found
a narrow, rocky ridge, on which we had
to travel in Indian file and with some
precaution against falling.
On our left hand we had a fine view O.
LITTLE BATH LAKE.
the water of which Isl few degrees hotter
than the lake which we had just left
Little Bath Lake Ia about one-fourth the
size of the other. Both are evidently the
vortices of old geysers and neither o.
them have any outlet. The water makes
: no deposit and seems to contain abou
the same quantity of water all the yea
round. There are numerous caves In thu
rocks that surround Little Bath Lake
But our time was too limited to admit o
exploring any of them. One of then
bears the ominous title Of
/ DEATHS KITCHEN
from the fact that the floor is covered
with the dead carcasses of small animals
who take refuge in it from their enemie
and are killed by poisonous gasses thu
moment they come under their Influence
From these cliffs we descended into tn
SULPHUR PITS,
volcanic region. The fumes Of splphu
pervades the atmosphere and large quan
titles of yellow sulphur is oozing out O
small openings that connect with tn
hotter regions below.
| Going east, through the auiphuF pi
region we came to, what some photo
graphers have named the
MAMMOTH SQUASH.
| It Is impossible to give name or TAX
view of this gigantic formation that viii
convey correct idea of it, and writer
description would be equally inadequate
Mr.. Reese ST., thought it resembled
huge white elephant more than anything
| he could think OF, and as this opinion
was concured in by every member of tn
party we at once agreed to name it
THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
| IL COiAHlCliCC0 ttAuOAE e1AO pAp
and extends northward for nearly mile
At first three or four persons may wall
on the summit, side by side, but it grad1
ally becomes narrower and sleeper unit
there is barely room for one person t.
walk on its back. On the top there is al
open crevlce through which we coul'
see stream of warm water flowing south
ward. The conduit is ofa hard porcelain
like substance and about three feet from
the surface. This elephantine formation
crosses deep ravines and maintains it
level as if graded by railroad enginee
and leveled up ready for ties and rails
It makes an admirable footpath dow
from near
sTALACTITE CAVE,
which is one of the objects of interes
that every visitor ought to see at tn
Mammoth Hot Springs. A jet of ho
water is elected from the rocks $50 fee
above the cone and forms beautiful sta
lactites ofevery conceivable tint and colo1
The beauty of this cave has been marred
by the breaking off by tourists, the end
; of these petrifcations.
Mr. uovnas of FARGO has since M,