The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
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Discoveries In the Yellowstone National Par

Discoveries in the Yellowstone National PARK.
Among the arrivals in the city from
the north yesterday was Mr.. G. l..
Henderson, one of the superintendent
of the Yellowstone National park,
who has resided in the park since 1882.
During that period he has made many
valuable researches and discoveries.
His Investigations in that portion of
the park lying in the forks of the
Firehole river south of Marshall's
hotel were especially important. The
discoveries made in the park last year
arc considered of especial value and
Importance, both from their extent and
character. Mr.. Henderson, replying
to inquiries, said:
''The whole of last November and
the first half of December was so fine
in the Geyser basin that a party, con-
sisting OF myself, Asst. Supt. w. j.
Weimer. and George w. Marshall,
were enabled to make the most
thorough and careful search that had
ever been made in that region of hot
springs. spouting geysers, and mud
volcanoes.
what the old guide books desig-
mated as the Lower Geyser basin con-
tanned over a thousand objects of spe-
cial interest, not over three of which
have been named or even noticed, and
at best the whole was condensed into
II few lines or a single paragraph, and
fog that reason that it was both a terra
incognita and innominata.
1.-The Chemical basin, of which there
are three divisions. contains vast
bowls or basins of decomposed rock,
pulverized and in a liquid, jelly-like
form, of every shade and color, and
so hot that 1t would be instant death
to any living thing which had the
misfortune to slip down the oily walls
into one of these seething abysses.
1.-The most remarkable of these boil
ing paint bowls l named Lindren's
garden, in honor of Baron o Lindren
of Amsterdam, who during his visit to
the National park last October was
the first to observe and to sketch the
marvellous floral forms that rise inces-
sandy and bloom a brief moment and
then fade away, to be succeeded by a
never-cnding and ever-varying display
OF lilies, roses, %sunllowers. The
Kaleidoscope floral m%orphology is
created on the surface of Il thick cream
colored pain in a bowl thirty feet in
diameter. Every flower form is well
defined and is never repeated. No
waste and no delay.
"Thls basin lies south of Chemical
basin and is even more wonderful,
though in IN other way. 1t contains
owe three hundred miniature noun
tains, each of which sends out puffs
of steam and several OF them are active
mud volcanoes. One of these opened
at the top like the jaws of a bulldog,
and there were five successive erup-
tons 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 harden into a
crust like dry putty. Another one
close by had an eruption, sending up
at each discharge, q few seconds apart,
small marble-shaped balls, most of
which fell back into tho crater.
"On the west bank of the Firehole
river an active geyser sent up every
fifteen or twenty minutes a volume of
boiling water about ninety feet high.
The crater to the depth of thirty feet
was lined with a series OF skull-like
knobs ranged in rows as if a phreno-
logist had been collecting a cabinet of
craniums. There were skulls of every
form ami size, from that of an infant
to a giants in size, and from that of
an idiot to q Bacon in form.
Near the Skull geyser and close by
the river is a most singular boiling
pool containing a coarse black sand.
From some inexplicable cause this
black sand rises like 4 huge bubble
and falls back, leaving the water for
an instant turbid, after which it be-
comes clear as crystal. Each succeed
ing globe becomes Il larger until the
like the crack of a whip. The locker
on ~instinctively makes 4 step back
ward until he becomes accustomed to
this pugnaciouS name of coming to
a climax. This geyser suggests its
own name, the Conclusion.
"About two miles east of the road
leading past the Fountain geyser to
the Upper Geyser basin is the largest
lake of boiling water in the park or in
the world.
"Waipurgis lake is nearly two
miles long by one in width ut the
widest place. The shores are lined
with a black lavatic scoria similar to
that found ut Nesuyius. 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 thai filled the basin and tioated
away into the woods on the northern
shore. The east side was as black as
ebony. The boiling torrent swept
ver the marble front with a periodical
dash and roar that was deafening. 1t
seemed as if a black demon were de-
luging an angel with a food Of in
Equity, in spite OF which it became
purer and winter. 1t was named
Mephistopheles and Marguerite"
In speaking of the popularity of the
park as national pleasure resort, Mr..
Henderson predicted that the travel
this year and number Of visitors would
be more than double that of any pre-.
vious season.-St. Paul Globe.
- The RurpO 49,.