The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-23

one comes to see, and pause long in
seeing, its constant spoutings, from
hour to hour, night and day, through
all the remembered years OF past
time. It gives due notice of its com.
ing in the double form OF the still
small voices OF the earth and in the in
creasing roar OF its discharges. lts
visits are rs regular almost as the
clock, and they are made once in each
hour. In hundreds OF experience
the time has not yet varied more
than ten minutes. These spoutings Of
Old Faithful come from an oriiicc
seven feet in height by two feet in
width. In Its form, rise and faithful
work it has no comparison in the
world, as most of the large geysers
vary in their movements, and all to
appear at times for many days.
Some, indeed, have passed away III
together as far as one can tell. Some
also are remembered as seen once only
in all past time.
Some OF the geysers are also quite
recent in the new explosions from the
earth, and some Of them are constant
ly changing. Here and there you may
see hundreds of single Jets making the
faintest motion. and thosene by the
larger springs bubbling and boiling in
all the force OF cauldrons OF heated
water.
How many OF these springs there
are no one can tell. The named or
noted ones number about Ill, and
it is supposed there are 1000 and
more in the park, all told. Many OF
the active geysers have been named
in the past. Some have done their
work and disappeared, but whether
for a year, or for many years, no one
can tell. Among the names one is
the Kicker-and some clever lady,
probably q Blaine Republican, not
liking the Kicker, named it the Mug
wump, in the Blaine and Cleveland
canvass, and it has gone by that name
ever since, and no other name will ev-
err be attached to the once Kicker
Geyser. The "Sawmill Geyser," also,
by one OF our party, was named the
Mugwump. There are some special
wonders in all these wonders OF ma
ture. One OF these is the power these
geysers have in destroying or over
towering every surface thing within
reach. Live trees disappear where
the geysers are or have been at work.
You see them rising from the old CEN
tres of these deposits, blasted, dead
and ghost-ike in their appearance.
In one place there are fourteen ter
races, all OF which were made by the
outpouring OF boiling springs. They
have left the earth not only covered
with geyserte, but stranger in appear
ance than anything else one sees upon
the face OF the earth. At most an al
most snowy whiteness is left OF the
busy workings ofages gone by. Where
there were once great activity and
heat, near by are the cooler streams
with trout in them, and close within
reach the still heated waters where
they are placed and in five minutes
ready for the tongue or table. Though
a real fish story this is really no fiction,
for many have performed this kind OF
fishing.
The colors OF some of these flowing
waters, after they find Judgment in
large pools or rise up in the earth, are
also beautiful, and rs pure as emerald,
and every way purifying. Half doz-
EN- Grand Army men threw their soiled
handkerchiefs into the fountain of Old
Faithful when it was almost quiet,
and those that were thrown out
again were as clean and fresh as soap
and water could make them. Some
OF these purifiers are called "the DEVILS
Washtub," and the larger and more
heated ones "the Devils Lake" The
better name is 1.-THE Queens Laundry"
With so much that is hot and con-
Stunning and disturbing however, the
name of his Satanic majesty becomes
very familiar in the region OF the gey-
sers.
In keeping with this claim, in the
Norris Geyser Basin, one revels in sui
phur and is bewildered by the united
force and odors of the hot springs.
The earth shakes at times like little
earthquake or as ii its end was near.
Hotel grounds and all near by are
'christened "the Fire Hole" ard with
all the red. black and yellow coors
and sulphurous smells, no wonder
that in the night season your fancies
have full play OF what is possible in
the lower region, where these geysers
have their start in motion. and are
ceaseless in their heats, settings and
discharges.
What is called the "Gevyer Mon.
arch sends forth abo@+ snce daily
immense quantities ofwater, from 100
to 1870 feet high, and from three dis
tinct orifices, while "the Searcher"
sends forth it's contents OF dark green,
pale and violet color. These tints
are seen in the spray and where there
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