Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-16
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
THR WORLDS WONDER AND rHB NATIONS
PRIDE.
E-Shsrf George R. Jingle Writes Most Enter
taining Letter, Describing The Unparalleled and
Aws-Inspiring Grandeur in That Pie
nOmsnal Reservation.
Special Correspondence Of hs RtgiSer.
MAMMOTH HoT SPRIGs HOTEL,
NATIONAL YELLOWSTONE PARK.
L l.


Having few hours Of leisure time
after taking in the park on horseback
crossing a distance of 154 miles in
four days, enjoying the most wonderful
scenery in the world, l thought would
drop the REGISTER few lires, as l know
so many people depend on that live news
paper for pointers as TO how life may be
made enjoyable and the greatest amount
of happiness secured for tue least amount
Of expense and labor.
"The glorious Fourth" was celebrated
at this famous Geyssr wonderland, by fir
ing national salute at noon, and in the
evening by reading the Declaration OF In
dependence, speeches, singing, and at
night grand display OF fireworks. Eight
OF the original States were represented IN
the meeting by tourists, the PRESIDENT
being Philadelphian.
To think OF five hundred tourists from
all parts of America and Elrope being en-
tertained daily at superb hotels, distrib-
uted at convenient distances all through
this wilderness mountain ard Geyser re-
sort, where only few years ago the In
dams held undisputei sway, and tha
foot of white man dare not trod, and
where Chief Joseph, the greatest Of Indian
warriors, showed General Howard that in
military tactics and marching an army he
was his superior.
This great National Park, which was
then an almost impopetrab!e wilderness,
has been turned iItI the grandost spot for
wonderful sights to be found in the world.
Immediately over extinct Geysers stands
the Mammoth Hotel. The first view the
tourist gets OF it is from q sharp turn ia
the road as the stage springs round only
few hundred yards away.
THE DRIVE TO THE MAMMOTH.
Eight miles from the railroad station
brings you TO the Mammoth. The drive
for the moet OF the distance is along the
Gardiner, which runs through deep gorge
in the rugged mountains. After the tour
ist takes his bath, he rests for an hour or
so. Supper is eaten, and then all start out
for the formstion-only five MINUTES walk
from the hotel. You ascend the terraced
hill of q white, sand-like deposit-the
accumulation Of centuries-caused by the
overflow of the innumefable hot springs on
the top. The water in some Of the pools
ia beautiful shade Ct gresn and blue,
whilst in Others il is perfectly clear, but
all boiling hot. Farther up the mountain
YOU reach the "0rapge Geyser," an i'm
mense formation resembling in shape and
color an orange Beyond a short defiance
ia warm water lake, in which you can
bathe and swim. The water possesses
medicinal properties very beneficial TO in
vslids. Near by the lake is the "DeviPs
Kitchen" (" 30 called, presume, because OF
the close proximity to his satanic msl-
esty's permanent abode. AsI descended
the ladder to the bottom Of the kitchen
was wondering If would meet the propri-
tor and what his salutation would be.
As your readers are aware this park is
SIS by so miles in extent, and has within
its boundaries buffalo, elk, bear, deer,
mountain lions and all small game. In
making nv tour saw band OF elk and o
number of deer. The game is multiplying
fast under the rigid rules Of the govern
ment. which forbid their being killed, and
the vigilant wstchfulness OF the mil
itary who guard the Park. Roads
as fine az can be found in the States are
being rapidly built by the government,
following the streams as far as practicable.
when the roads are completed leading to
all the peysers, lakes and canyons, the
trip through will be made much more rap
idIy and with more comfort to horf eilesh.
The start through the park is always made
in the morning. This morning thirteen
stages and carriages left with ll5 people
ON four days tour. The first point Of
interest, three miles distant, IS
THE GOLDEN GATE.
The road ia hewn out of the solid rock
and as it enters the Canyon ii passes be-
tween high standing rock on the outside
and perpendicular mountain OF rock on
the other side. As the stage slowly winds
around the carved out rocks, you can look
above you and see the rocks in many
cases hanging over the stage as though
they would drop any moment to crush all
beneath. In the winter this Canyon II
filled mp with snow hundreds Of feet deep.
The only mode Of travel at that time IL
ON snow shoes. The kind used here are ten
10 twelve feet long. On them the winter
of 's6. Haynes, the photographer, with
three men made the tour OF the Park and
obtained his grand winter views. The
Alaska EI plorer Swatka started with the
party to write up the Park in winter, get
ting az far as morris Geyser Basin"
L. .af~oaI 10 farfhaF nFefaTFlnU
a warm stove and free bar to facing the
risors of winter climate on snow ehoes
in the Park. This is not Swatka's only
failure to accomplish what he has boast
fully started out TO do. His Mt. 81. ELIAS
trip for the New York Herald was a
signal failure. Moreover Haynes went
where Swatka would not follow, and TO
him we are indebted for the best and only
winter views of the wonderful sights in the
Park. As the stage rolls on behind four
spanking fine horses, the eye OF the tour
ist is constantly feeding on some new OBJ
iect OF interest. Obsidian Cliff Is simply
a mountain OF glass, and one OF the won
ders the stage road cuts through. The
beautiful Gibbon Fall on Gibbon river,
along which the road winds, calls a halt
that the tourist aud amateur artists may
view and sketch the lovely scene As you
come up from the river, above the green
forest.clad mountain tower the peaks,
bare Of vegeta tion above the timber line,
and streaked with snow, bidding defiance
10 the hot sun which is reddening the faces
of the fair travellers as they speed along
the dusty road.
morris Geyser Basin" is the dinner sta
ton. After a wash and brushing down
YOU walk into dinner. There IS 10 lack
of attention from the manager down TO the
walters, and all are well fed and satisfied.
Ten minutes walk along the road brings
YOU 10 the Geyser Basin, covering, should
say. fifty acres OF boiling, spouliDg gey-
sers, numbering hundreds. In this basin
NAV be seen the big mud geyser close to
10 the road side, not over twenty feet dis-
ant.
throwing mud bout twenty feet high in
great quantities. This geyser only broke
out within the past year, and is never
still. Near it are several small mud pools
boiling and throbbing. On the opposite
side Of the road ia the "Growler," from
which steam and water are constantly pour
ing. making a growing noise like lion.
Now it is the Steamboat" blowing Of
steam; the opening is a hole about the
size of -four barrel, from which dense
volume Of smoke is constantly pourirg'
making a tremendous noise. OF TO the
right is a beautiful gey yser, Minute Man,