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

pleasant and refreshing. This will be
one of the best medicinal springs in this
part of the Park, and will no doubt be
utilized for remedial purposes at no dis
tant day. A few minutes walk brought
us to
| ANToNy's GATE,
on both sides Of which massive terraces
as white as marble arose several hundred
feet, leaving narrow passage to the most
beautiful of all the terraces, and already
well known to the tourist rs
cLEoPATR.s t:owL.
| The Bowl is perfect circle and the
upper rim is as white as snow. The boil
ing water that flows over the east side
forms into beautiful stalactites and so solid
as to defy the assaults of ak and chisel.
But all that portion Of these crystals that
extended below the basin have been bro
ken off and carried away. Fifteen or
twenty feet below the Bowl there is a
cave into which the waters flows and dis
appears. Where the stalactites hung
down from the Bowl, they looked like
the tasseled fringes Of an old fashioned
pulpit. These icicles down which poured
crystal drops that were building ceasless-
ly a vail as if to hide the enhance to
CUPID's CAVE.
Photographic views may give come
faint idea Of this wonderful group of nat
ural objects, but after having once seen
them the picture may aid the memory in
reviving the imp sion of establishment
and delight, one .oeriences when first
looking up betwe Il two towering walls Of
marble we get glimpse of the steaming
bowl and the fringed cave and we look
around almost expecting to see the stat
ues of Mark Antony and his enchantreas
and the sly Cupid peering out of the cave
with his quiver full of arrows and his
bow bent for mischief
Standing on the upper side Of Cleopa-
tra's Bowl We get splendid view of the
Mammoth Springs proper, from which
great clouds of.steam are necessarily ris-
ing. To the west and north about fifty
| feet lower than
| cLEopATRA's TERRACES
we see number Of lakes of 80 deep a
blue as to entitle them fairly to the name,
CERULEAN LAKES,
The water Of these lakes are not hot;
they make no deposits and are liable at
any moment tc disappear at one place
and reappear at another.
Going eastward we descended the dry
portion of Clcopatrs's Terraces and Wis
tied the
MINOR WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
where tents had been erected by parties
suffering from special class of diseases,
in order to secure the remedial advant-
ages of the baths. One party spent q
month here last summer, taking three
baths day. He assured me that after
the first two haths he had slept soundlv
the first time during three years.
Going north from the Minor White
Sulphur Springs we saw the
PAtxrEp rERRAcEA
80 named on account of the vanety Of
coloring: The hot water aowa down the
east side toward the Gardiner river. The
walls are SO PERCEPTIONS on this side, as to
be almost inaccessible. Shirting the edge
Of these terraces we reached
COATING TERRACE,
over With torrent of hot water, like a
miniature Niagara, is overlooking. Thre"
lakes above this terrace send up A. gres
volumne Of water from an unknown
depth, impregnated with lime and mag
nesia which is deposits J in circular basins
on the outer margi If the precipices.
Horse-shoes, bottles, wire baskets and
crosses are hung into the falling water
and are galvanized, as it we're, with the
substance of which the terraces are COM
posed. It requires from three TO eight
days to coat these articles and they must
be visited daily in order to shift their po-
sition, the better to secure 9 uniform
coat. They are, when well attended to,
beautiful cabinet ornaments and are in
great demand as specimens from the
Mammoth Springs. We did not 70 tathe
CENTER TERRACES,
which a.e of great beauty, though Of less
magnitude than the painted and coating
terraces. Still west there are three other
mammoth springs at lower levels, whose
waters sink into the dry magnetism beds
which had been deposited ages ago by
hot springs now extinct.
Near the government bath house three
hot springs emea4-' from the formation
within a feet OF sch other, being 740,
9so and lO4o re-Laoctively. A luxurious
bath may be secured at any one Of these
temperatures.
We closed our afternoons work by
taking a good hearty drink out Of
MINERAL SPRING
the temperature being $40 and said to
contain small percentage Of arsenic and
other minerals, and highly medicinal.
We have named but twenty five special
objects of interest out Of five times that
number that may be visited at this point
above.
Col. Clough suggested that it would be
of great value, to tourists, to have good
topographer prepare map showing the
relative situation and distances of all inn
portant objects, with their names and
numbers.
All our party we're well satisfied with
what they saw "n the very threshold Of
WONDERLAND,
and expressed the determination to pur.
sue their investigations further at the
first favorable opportunity.
Four Hour GUIDE.
THE BAD BOT.
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