Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-18

~ pector on the
hills back of the Llano Diablo, when
one of the party, whose name l am
not at liberty to mention told the
following tale, and vouched for its
truth l gave it in his own words:
II was one of the first prospeetOrs
that ever went into that country,
and yOuean bet your pack mule that
1t is rich in mineral. We took up
some claims there, but the Apaches
drove us out, and l never went back.
had an adventure there, though,
that I'm not likely to forget, and it
was worse than any Indian attack
while it lasted
The Llano Diablo," he said, sis
really an isolated valley formed by the
dividing OF the great Sierra Madre,
IN Northern chihuahua. They call it
the Devils Plain, and it deserves the
name 1t was in IA that we went in
there-200 miles from a settlement.
We had made some good locations
and were about to get out, thinking
to come back after the Apaches were
settled You could hear the noise
from the geysers on the Llano any
where around there; and made up
my uaind to get close look at the
extraordinary place before l went
back None of the boys cared to go,
SO started out alone from camp at
daybreak.
The hills that separated the Llano
from our camping place were not
Tery high and | rode over. For a
5ew miles there was nothing particu-
lar to Notice except that the roaring
In the air grew louder and thatabsO-
tutely nothing, not even a cactus or
n mesquite bush, grew on the hills
Ny horse trotted on unconcernedly
over the first white hill and then
began to notice how hollow his hoo
beats sounded. The country was
SIMPLY A SHELL,
and it seemed to me that this crust
must be pretty thin to ring back hol
low like that. | got little scared
and made up my mind to walk the
rest of the way.
81 anchored my horse to a bowldel
and ciambered up to the nearest
ridge ahead.
''Then saw the Llano Diablo.
EsItwas worth all my climbing, tel
you. The plain is an irregular triar
gle, probably ten miles long on tn
longest side and half as wide. i
was covered over with mounds anC
holes, and hooked like the surface o
a kettle OF mush that had frozen be
fore it had stopped boiling. al
of these mounds and holes had beel
-gersers, but all except bunch G
probably half hundred in the cen
ter oil the plain weren no longer active
But these made noise and disturb
ance enough, can tell J GU. The
roared out of the mounds so tina
the mountains really shook. Firs
one. would shoot up with iearfr
noise, two or three more would joi
IN the chorus, dozen Others woul
Sump up, and then OF a sudden the
would all stop and another set woul
begin their music. They were bou
two miles from me, and as far as
conlh judge the strongest of thel
sent its waters up at least q hundre
feet had lots Of time, so Though
4 would get a close view. | 90
down to the plain and started aero
5ts white, cracked and crumbled su
face. l found that / could not g
within 100 yards of the bigge
ispouter, as to mound about it WI
altogether too steep. got pref
close to some Of the others and
seconded right to the margin OF
boiling pond.
1.-THE GIANT FOUNTAINS
were sprouting all around I
and / was drenched by t
w1rm spray that the VIII
blew from the columns of water.
saw them sprout up and then So
side and | wondered what become
this active water after the eruptio
This | made up my mind to find o
i'll could. A hundred yards or
west of me there was mound til
did not seem so very high. / So