The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-08-25

through we 20 anu come. Alter rehCD-
ing the summit Gas we supposed, as
high as we would go) we come out on
TO broad, level table land, snow all
around us, and seemingly close by, but
the driver tells us it is six miles off; on
we go, when we find all of us getting
cold, although | have on my heavy
clothes and OyercOat and gloves. and
my wife her heavy New Market cloak,
and all wrapped up; we are getting
real cold, but on we go until the din
nCr station is reached, where we get
out, chilled through and through, but
"A large stove, red hot, grcets us, and
we stand and warm one side, then the
other, until we are sufficiently thawed
out when we go in to our dinner, w hich
is soon over; into our stages wo O,and
We pusa HOT spring after hot spring,
with the steam arising from them, we
come to the place where we stay all
night, called Fire Hole" Having
staged ii A miles to- day, you can
imagine we will sleep soundly. AT
this place we are again greeted by II
nice, hot stove, by which we again
thaW ont Here we got nice supper
and through with it by o'clock, but
it is too cold TO go out and we sit
around the stoves and chat until dark,
about 10 O'Clock, when we retire.
This night, August 4th, was so cold we
had to pile on extra cover from Off an
extra bed i'll our room; up on Sunday
morning, August 5th, eat heartily and
off for only a short drive of ten miles,
and in going this ten miles 1t is full of
interest. First we come to the foun-
tain, which is pool of hot water, boil
ing hot continuously, the pool being
about 80 feet in diameter, aud round,
| and the water as clear as a crystal land
| no bottom, so far as is known; and
beside this fountain is a small opening
in the rocks, say three feet in diameter,
called the indicator, so called because
it begins to lose its water when the
| fountain is going to play. So we all
waited about an hour, when the indi-
Gator began to lower, and in few
minutes the water began to boil furi
ously, and gradually getting more so,
until the water began to shoot up so
feet high, with enough steam coming
from it to run all the steam engines in
Lexington. While this is going on the
water in the indicator sinks out OF
sight. Within 100 yards of this is the
"Paint Pot" basin about fifty feet in
diameter, containing paste-like mud,
and about as thick as paint, containing
every imaginable color, each color
bubbling up and boiling away as if the
"old boy" mad just received largo lot
of Lexington coal to fire with-cer-
tainly some such good steam generating
fuel being used. After admiring these
tor an hour or more, we hasten into
our stages to pass on TO more and
greater wonders. All along the route
are boiling, bubbling hot springs, some
as small as a common wooden bucket
and others rs large as fifty feet III diam
eter, most all of them round, and al
with steam arising from them; in fact
, for ten miles you are not out of sight
3 of them.
Now we come to .'Hell's Half-Acre,
] or Excelsior Geyser," which is abou
\ fifty ieet above and right alongside o
, the Fire Hole river, this river beins
about fifty feet wide and from three tt
ten feet deep. We are told the Excel
t sior Geyser does not play but once ol
twice in twenty -four hours, but we al
;. leave our stages Isome 70 or 80 OF us,
aud cross over the river on narrow
, bridge, and go up to the summit of th'
t hill, il being 8ll solid rock, where WI
see from half all acre to one acre o
n boiling water, down, say 20 feet below
in the solid rock. The steam ariSin!
, from this is SO dense you cannot see on
}, into the basin more than ten feet; ant
Il i'll one place where my wife and mysel
;, went down close to the water, thu
rocks we stood on heated my wife
rubber shoes so hot that the smell O
], the rubber attracted our attention to ii
+ We soon got away from there and up
little higher. Around this basin o
water, but up above it 20 feet, are TIVE
large lakes of about TWO or three acre
0 each and only about $50 feet away, bot
g hot water, and called "Priamati
p Springs" on account of the beautiful
and varied tints of tueir waters. Well
we sit around on sto nes we pile up 70
K seats, and patiently wait. hoping sool
, TO see "EXcelsicr" 60 off, when sud
denly. after an hours waiting, ,someon
- halloes, "Look out; she's goiug," ant
: we look into this pit of an acre, or
) little less, and we see the water, as
: mad, roaring and boiling; we all ru
G back about fifty feet from its edge, an
a gradually the grandest sight we ha
ever seen comes to view; the water !
II thrown up two hundred feet high, an
o with it, rock, small and large, by tn
@ hundred, some as large as your head
e and others as small as an egg, and yO
ought to have seen us run TO get ava
II from the falling stones, as we could Sc
It them away mp i'll the air, hundreds
a feet above us. This basin throws ou
q so much water that it raises the rive
right beside it many feet in few min
!" utes, and makes the whole stream hot
e SO much SO that you cannot bear you
Ia hand in it, as we tried it some minute
after the eruption. All being so we
pleased at Excelsior accommodating u
to such fine display, we get into on
< stages and off we 90 toward Uppe
d Geyser Basin, where, seeing many
h very many, interesting basins and gey
sers on the way, we get to our hotel b
IL dinner time, and as we are to stay heI
le TO see the many sights until O'cl0C
,r u. IN. tomorrow. (Monday) we. pass O
l to our hotel, intending to walk back
see them ali; now, having had Dime
A. we start To walk around 10 see Il
III different geysers III sight and near OF
,k hotel; first there is the "Old Faithful
4. about three hundred yards from Il
ID hotel, which goes OIL regularly evel
I'd hour. We saw il 90 off about fOl
n times while there. 1t il, as are all Il
he others, all solid rock all around then
I'd aud when not playing, you can wa
k right up to and look down in
50 them. "Old Faithful" Is cone-shape
lr about six feet in diameter, and wht
il not playing is continually boiling, al
|. just before all eruption, or playing,
Or we call it, it begins to boil and spu
ne five or six feet high; then it goes dow
OF for minute, then up again about fol
IL or five times, until she gets mad, The
,d she shoots up some 200 feet high, pOu
We inc forth river Ot water and steam f
to about five minutes; then it quiets dow
D. for another hour. II is grand and wO
an dertul, aud well deserves It's name
" cod Faithful" Then close by, al
10 rs close TO our hOtcl,is the "BeC Hive
he which is rock that sets up about tor
I'll feet high. looking Just like bee hiv
We with its cone about three feet arOuu
4 and an opening in ii about eighties
~ inches in diameter, boiling away har
V, but never showing its water unless yl
i walk down to it and look down into
III which we did in this, as in all d
hl others, when you find it boiling ava
or rs hard as all the others. Well, Il
ld Bee Hive had not gone off for sou
to days, but about dusk, as if 10 especial
Mt entertain US, she began 10 go. IL W;
is GRAND Obi il shot the water, sol
IT, stream eighteen inches in diameter. I
er some 100 feet high, and rs il can