The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-08-06
Notes on a Visit to Mammoth Hot Springs

Springs to the upper districts of the
Park, the government has begun road
along the west fork of the Gardiner
! river. Oscar Swanson had charge Of the
work last summer and carried it to the
| canyon of the stream, when the season
and the money appropriated came to an
end. AS soon as authorized by Lieut.,
kingman, the government engineer, he
will resume the work and blast his way
along the rocky walls of the canyon to
Swan Lake Park, whence to all
points of interest in the Park
an easy road extends. When complete
this new route-the Golden Gate-will
present an easy road and one that will be
accessible fully two weeks earlier than
that over the mountain up which the road
now leads
Bath Lake, in the upper portion of the
Mammoth Hot Springs formation, is a
great attraction. 1t IS nearly 100 yards
in diameter, and its water varies in tenn
perature from scalding heat at the point
where the hot water is conducted into it
from the bottom, to a delightfully."- com
Portable warmth at a little distance. Its
wafer is impregnated with sulphur and
other chemical ingredients.
DR.. John Kurtz is building number
of new bath rooms into which the sur
plus water from the lowest of the terraces
will be conducted.
There are several deep and rambling
caves in the lower part Of the formation,
which is the plateau extending from the
terraces to the Gardiner river. A story
is told that in 1877, at the time of the
Nez Perce war, the military detachment
which camped there made cache of am
munition In one of the caves, and that it
has never since been found.
A picture that cannot fail to impress
the visitor is the first view of the Nation
al hotel and its surroundings as they are
approached from Gardiner. For several
miles nothing has been seen but nature in
her most rugged aspects, when suddenly
at the top OF high, steep hill, the great
hotel with its Picturesque architecture
and its busy appeara of active life is
seen far below, while beyond and above it
rises the Mammoth Hot Springs forma-
ton in terrace above terrace like a gigant-
ic waterfall, tinted with rainbow lines and
changed into ice.
. That hotel was magnificent concept
ion to be located in the Rocky Mountains,
and would have been magnificent build
ing had it been completed according to
the original plans. The three wings that
were to have stretched out zoe feet each
in the rear, have never got beyond the
paper upon which the plans were drawn.
But the main building is large
enough and suitable in every way
for the present requirements
rather will be when completed
and furnished throughout. Receiver
Hume is constantly expending little
money in carpenter work and painting ne
cessary to give the great building more
finished appearance and to put it in shape
for occupation throughout. Mr.. Hume,
by-the-way, and his assistant, W. B.
Webb, are both working hard to give to
the court, and through it to the company's
creditors, good account of the receivers
stewardship.
The conduct of the hotel is excellent;
that is the universal verdict of guests.
G. w. Magee is sustaining his well earned
rcnutation. land under manifestly disad
vantaccous conditions) OF being su-
perior hotel manager and caterer.
Livingston readers will remember j. 5.
Williamson, who was clerk at the Livings-
ton Hotel last summer until he went to
the Park and took Il similar position in
the National. Well, he IS there yet, in the
capacity of chief clerk. He is greatly re-
lied upon by his employers, and justly so,for
his invarialle afability and good humor,
his activity in attending to the wants of
swarm of guests, and his almost infall-
ble accuracy make him very important