The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-10-27
THE new NORTH WEST.
LIVINGSTONE, NJ. L. Oct. %, 1888.

LIVINGSTONE, Nj. L. Oct. %, 1883.
Special Correspondence.
Travelling q little more than hundred
miles from Billings to this lively town.
one meets with constant succession of
genuine surprises, for here we are in the
famed Yellowstone Park, which may be
appropriately termed the wonder
land" not only of America, brt of the
world. As did not count them, take
the word of the tourist that there are ten
thousand hot springs within the confines
OF this park, which covers an area of Just
3,575 square miles. The park lies prin-
cipally in Wyoming Territory, fragments
of it being allotted to Montana and Ida
ho, and here have been tumbled together
iudiscrimipately caYerns, cauons, ravines,
lakes, rivers, creeks, forests and noun
tains whose sides present the most as
tonishing geologic specimens of Natures
handiwork. The objects of special in
terest, however. both - the tourist and
the naturalist, are centered about the
Mammoth Hot Springs of Gardiner Riv-
er and upon its west bank. These
| springs are on White Mountain, extend
| ing in terraces that seem to have been
laid out by human hands a thousand feet
above the stream, the side of each ter
race presenting the appearance of froz-
en- cascade from The white deposits issu
ing from the upper series of springs. A
perpetual spring fifty feet in diameter,
with water 80 transparent that objects
can be discerned at a depth of twenty
feet, is handy thing TO be had about
ones house, but when to this is added
the advantage Of obtaining the water al
any temperature from the boiling point
down. it is possession that must be
coveted by all who affect cleanliness.
health and solid comfort, TO Say nothing
of it as the realization Of the dream OF
those who have sought a way TO esespe
the ills of the washing day.
Near these springs Uncle Rufus Hatch
has his new hotel, which promises to be
the resort of the thousands who will
journey here to witness scenes such as
are not presented elsewhere upon this
planet of ours. A pathway well-worn
leads from the valley to the plateau of
dead level table-land from which is pre-
sented view of three score of springs,
each throwing out its jets of boiling
water and steam, and below at the top OF
each succeeding terrace the same beauti-
ful scene is repeated. A volume would
be required to describe picture that
tires the eye with its beauties and heats
the imagination with feyerish anxiety
lest the wondrous spectacle shall sudden
ly dissolve and pass away.
But the geysers! What can we do but
imagine mighty cauldron away down
in the bowels of the earth, whose con-
tents having no other means Of escape
have worked their way between stratss
efearth and rock until they have reached
the surface? Aud here they are vomiting
forth, some Of them at regular periods
and others when they feel like it, columns
of mud and columns of water alternately.
A few slight spurts and bubbles of the
blue hot water are the preliminary skir
mish that forecasts the eruption, anG
) then with suddenness that is horribl,
startling there comes hiss like that o
the escaping steam from the exhaust o
locomotive and then roar. and thel
3 the water or mud-you can have you
Y choice, The kissing and the roaring
continue for only few minutes. an,
d what was all commotIon down below
6 moment ago has now the silence Of tn
$ grave.
b Gibbon Canon is one of the most dc
b lightful portions Of the Park and is a
l. ready the fayorite haunt of the tourist
It who enters it throagh a charming grow
p tat skirts the side Of Gibbon Rive
s Which has to ts crossed and secrosse