Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-29
Orr NATIONAL PARK.
BEAUTIES AND WONDERS OF THE
YELLOWSTONE RESERVATION.
A Geological Curiosity - The Famous
D"ViI's slide-NaIIey of the Stinking
"st"r-ihe SNOW Elk-IIenry Lake.
Snake River.


W"ter-rhe SNOW EIk-IIenry Lake
Snake ii,er.
There ARE many wonders within our ,-rnat
national reservation that have never ir,.r
n"trevl by the numvr"u, guide b"oL>. and
there are Just many more outside of the
n''rlrr line and Ia Jh, mrighhorl~pi which
should have !..'u included when the PARK wa,
created Ih" mistake was in not making IT
twice the size for the whole country round
ah"ut is one region of continuous wonders.
such rs no other portion Of the known or un-
known world can huaSt Of The Ciunahar
mountains the Devils Slide. the beautiful
valley of the Shrinking Water, the Teton
Basin, just across the Continental divide, and
last but not least, Ilrnrys lake, over in
ldaho-tht.>e and the other ularvrls clos. hv,
when taken A. "A whole and lraviug out all
that is not Included IN the park proper. com
hne region Of stul-mduu> and startling
wonders, fully oqual, if not actually superior,
o. all that Is contained ia the $40 square
miles Of the park
The Cnnahar mountains are full Of pptrI-
factions Of every kind, and the fossils scat
tered all through the canyons and gurgeS and
on the Ieaks are numerous and varied enough
HAiilAN AAi tlIt III lI country lfi
ages to come On the submits of th,esr huge
piles are und"Ubt.Ni evidences Of the glacial
Irnod Charters exist even now in the Wlnd
river and Teton ranges, much below I2.O,u
feet
GEOLOGICAL CURIOSITY.
But the most remarkable example Of the
glacial period in tins region Is a huge hnwdrr
resting on the brink of the Grand rauvon.
about "A mile and u half helow the grrat tails
Ii Is very compact, a CnaTSe crystalline fields
pathic granite, IN shape rectangular the rsd-eS
sharp and uuwurn. and its cubical dimensions
somewhat nlon. than =, $50 feet Ii Is wIthlm
a stones throw Of the brink of th" cauyun
and rest, upon IA s'rieS of sheets of rhynIire
surely not more than unO feet in thickneS,
In sNskIng the possible source OF tins re-. X one
would naturally turn toward the south, the
sources of the Yellowstone. but the great
ranges to the eaS: AMI suuth are volcanic,
and are not known 10 contain a single
exposure OF granite rock. There are no such
formations M the whole upir,r Yellowstone:
for there l. Il total ab~cnr, OF granite Irbbl,
on the shores of tbs lake ur il the trsl~ ot the
rivers The nome OF this wanderyr must la
sought in the north, beyond the valley of the
Third canyon, fifty mikes away, and at the
southern end of the GallatIn MOUNTAINS
Four miles from the northern border line
of the park and just after passing the Second
canyon going south Is the famous D", Ii's
Slide. 1t il n rosy. brown -cour,i shoot run.
ming from the top to the has. OF the mountain
AT an angle If about - degrees. and looks for
all the world like tob"gE;m slide that
has hecn generously sprInklti with CHINA
mon. At ,he top on either side rise two lofty
mInarct towers. wonderfully puIrpI IN
size, shaIs and outline that one might very
well supro,e they Were constrIrt.~l from "A
single nuiel rather than brIng AS they are,
the simple Landlwork of nature The slide
starts from this point and shrutS down
steep grade. bringing up sharp and abrupt on
the BRINK u, ;lc Second canyon. The Indians
believe tia, when 1t thuudered the evIl one
went plunglus down thi, awful Incline pitch .
ns into the roaring Yellowstone at It's ha,r,
and then 10y some suhtcrranean puSSl,,. wit il I
the earth mounted tu the top again. and rr
este-i his little diversion until il ceased thun
leTinC. ln- liyhtnlng was cauS-l by friction
with the ii~~y-c"lored roadbed in the devils
'apid desceht