The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-19
TYGHEE PASS.

Across a long stretch OF plashy
meadow interspersed with pools and
Melted with riVulets. a haunt for all
the birds who love the shallow stream
and grassy plain. Then the foot of the
wooded pass, and as we rise to the north
and northwest lie the waters of Henry
Lake, guarded by bold picturesque
range Of mountains, branch of the
Rockies. Higher still, and at our left a
mammoth terraced peak lording it over
narrow glen; at the summit groups OF
tall red pine, and groves of cloud-like
trembling aspen. Springs in their shadow
triCkle from among moss and ferns, each
to begin It's long journey towards the
rising or setting Sun-the watershed OF
the continent Over the pass we speed
down through thickly clustered trees to
camp on the bright, sparkling stream of
the Madison.
FOREST OF DEAD AND YOUNG PINES.
Myriads of blaekened trunks standing
stark against the sky; myriads of sturdy,
green, youthful pines taking their place,
the coming generation viewing the
Wondering remains of their ancestors.
Those charred remains were fouriShing
green when our great Observation-Disclosures
took their first lettering steps: those
bright youths Will be casting deep
forest shade when we and our children's-
children are silent dust.
IN THE PARK-HELL's HALF ACRE.
A dark green river flowing through
harrow valley. On one hand broad
held OF ashen gray with deep wells and
caldrons sunk IN its surface, these filed
with blue sulphurous waters, trembling
IKE liquid IRE, or sleeping in sombre
indigo where we look far down into
their depths. One caldron, larger than
all the rest, Is edged around bY crumb-
ing walls of white and yellow, being
Slowly undermined and sinking into the
pool below. This is the Excelsior, the
great geyser Of the world, whose erun-
hon shakes the solid earth and sends
forth stores and vast quantities OF
Scaldlng water; now, clouds of soft,
pearly tinted steam rise from its face
and meltinto the ultramarine sky. Near
by, Is the Prismatic Lake = beautiful
even II terrible. Streams of the surplus
waters of these wells traverse the ashen
Hetd, encrusting their sides with brilliant
SolorS. On the other hand is green sward
dotted with trees and enriched with
Bf0IuSlon Of wild flowers. A bit of the
Of Dis.
UPPER GRYsER BASIN.
Il is difficult task to reduce the Up
per Geyser Basin TO a single picture. If
We give 1t the panoramic form, or treat it
q BIRDS eye view, the details are too
g !, Let US, however, first see it in
me latter way, and then approach
55earer and examine its separate won
uerS. Below US, then, where the eve can
pierce the clouds of overhanging steam.
We see valley about two miles in length
ana one in width, checkered with grassy
meadows, clumpS Of trees and circles of
p pLilte or grey geyserine. Fire Hole
1Gser trayerSeSit from end to end and re-
"a. III the outpouring floods On either
.-Se OF the stream are wells, springs and
e ee5s and numberiesS assures and
S S-,;.l! from which issue kissing steam.
sp..llhg water or heaving mud. Each
MS MS 20 De obeying the same general
EaI ;;i.clpie, yet with it own marked individ-
al The artistic value of the geysers
~ i- - springs consists in the lovely colors
cor 1ae waters and the encrusting of their
Tbn9 With brilliant yellows and reds.
p ,-oo marvellous beauty of the blues and
So II. yelling up from unknown depths.
efTa,. o I can describe, Yet much Of the
rn me- On n the mind Is due to q cause re
tb13 IT, beyond the power OF the artist
- sound As We approach the