Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1885-05-05
MORE WONDERS.
FRESH DISCOVERIES IN THE YELLOW
. STONE NATIONAL PARK.
Remarkable objects of Interest i'm the
Lower Geyser Basin--Bolling Paint
Bowls-NTarvelous Flowers The
Skull Geyser-B Boiling Sand.



Among the recent arrivals in the city
| from the north was Mr. G.. l.. Henderson,
one Of the superintendent Of the Yellow
stone National park, who has resided in the
park sincs lSSs. During that period he has
made many valuable researches and dis
coveries His Investigations in that portion
Of the park lying i'm forks Of the Fireholc
river south Of Marshalrs hotel were es.
pecially important Tho discoveries made
in tho park last year arc considered OF es-
pscial value and Importance, both from
their extent and character. Mr.. Henderson,
replying TO inquiries said;
"The whole OF last November aud the first
half Of December was so fine in tho Goyser
basin that a party, consisting Of myself,
Assistant Superintendent w. J. Weimer
and Georg3 W. Marshall, vera enabled 70
make the most thorough and careful search
that had ever been made In that region Of
hot springs, spouting geysers and mud vol
canoes
what the old guide books designate as
the Lower Geyser BASIN contained over
thousand objects Of special interest, not over
three OF which have been named or even
noticed, and at best the whole was condensed
into few lines or a single paragraph and
for the reason that it was both a terra in
cognita and innominata.
The Chemical Basin, Of which there are
three divisions, contains vast bowls or
basins Of decomposed rock, pulverized and
in liquid, jelly like form, OF every shade
and color, and 50 hot that ~ would be instant
death TO any living thing which had the
misfortune to slip down tho oily walls into
one Of these seething abysses
THE most remarkable of these boiling
NJ urle I fwl .. -, A.. -,
honor OF Baron Won Lindren. Of Amsterdam,
who during his visit TO the National park
last October was the first 10 observe and 10
sketch the marvellous floral forms that risa
necessarily and bloom a brief moment and
then fade away, 10 be succee led by a never
ending and ever varying display OF lilies.
roses, sunhowerS This kaleidoscope floral
morphology is created on the surface Of a
thick cream colored paint in a bowl thirty
feet in diameter. Every flower form is well
defined and is never repeated. No waste
and no delay.
This basin lies south Of Chemical Basin
and is even more wonderful though In an
other way. II contains over 800 miniature
mountains, each Of which sends out puffs OF
steam and several OF them are active mud
volcanoes One Of these opened az the top
like the jaws Of bulldog, and there were
FIVE successive eruptions Of white lava sent
up vertically about three feet when the
opening closed with a snap, after which the
lava slowly trickled down the sides OF the
mountain and soon hardened into a crust
ike putty. Another One close by had an
eruption, sending up at each discharge, a
few seconds apart small marble shaped
balls most Of which fell back into tho
crater
"On the west bank OF the Fireholc river
an active geyser sent up every fifteen or
twenty minutes n volume Of boiling water
about ninety fset high. The crater 20 the
depth Of thirty feet was lined with a series
OF skull-ike lnobs ranged in rows as il
phrenologist had been collecting cabinet
Of craniums. There were skulls Of every
form and size, from that Of an infant to
giants in sizs, and from that Of an idiot %
a BacOn's in form
"Near the Skull Geyser and close by the
river is a most singular boiling pool contain
ing a coarse black sand From some mex
plicible cause this black sand rises like a
huge bubble and falls back, leaving tho
water for an instant turbid. after which it
becomes clear as crystal Each succeeding
globe becomes larger until the seventh,
which bursts with report like the crack OF
4 whip The looker-on instinctively makes
a step backward until he becomes accus-
toned to this pugnacious manner Of coming
% climax. This geyser suggests its own
lame, the Conclusion.
about two miles east Of the road leading
asst the Fountain Geyser 70 the Upper
Geyser basin is tie largest lake Of boiling
water in the park or in the world
"Walpurgia lake is nearly two miles long
y one in width at the widest place. The
hores are lined with a black savatic scoria
similar 10 that found at Ne,uvius There is
At the head Of this lake a powerful geyser
continually in action. The west side Of the
cone nearest the lake CLEANED like alabaster
through vast clouds Of vapor that filed the
basin and fioated away into the woods on
The northern shore. The east side was
black as ebony. The boiling torrent swept
over the marble front with periodical dash
and roar that was deafening. Il seemed as
I a black demon were delugng an angel
with flood Of iniquity, in spite OF which it
became purer and whittier. II was named
and Marguerite
In sp3aking Of the popularity Of the park
IS u national pleasure resort Mr.. Henderson
predicted that the travel this year and nun.
Der Of visitors woull be more than double
hat Of any pTeyiouS season.