The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-16
YELLOW STONE PARK.
A PEN PICTURE OF IT BY HON. JOHN.
SON SHERRlcK,
Who Writes Interestingly About the
Wonderful Place "A Kodao Game in
Quite Handy.
written for the News.Democra,

Wrluen tOr the NeWs-DemOcrat.
YELLowsToNE PARK, June 5th,-rhis is
perhaps the most rem Arkable place within
the territory OF the United States. IL lies
IN the northwest corner of Wyoming, aud
In 90 miles long aud 5l mites broad and
contains over $500 square miles. 1t has
been set aside by our government for
National park, and TO be used as such for
ever. IL ts entirely free to visitors, so far
as admission to tie grounds Is concerned,
but u costs $40 day for two seated
carriage, ana tnat is the cheapest carriage
you can hire here. Our congress has seen
1T 70 grant the exclusive privilege for
public conveyance to one company and
allows them TO charge as mucn as they
please, and of course they extort from the
people. The hotel charge, 400 q day.
Ihey have gone to much expense to erect
une hotels and as they are only open four
molths in the year, this very reasonable.
IL takes visitor six days to see all the
points OF great int rest and costs about
$50. To make a complete tour and see all
OF the park will take several weeks. The
government has done very little towards
beautifying the grounds as yet the roads
rev and not in good condition. Art has
not yet come to the front to lend "a hand
IN embellishing that which nature has
made so grand, What you see here is not
chiefly the beautiful, not roses and flower
beds, with schrubbery, pure and green,
artistlCly laid out and Cluvated, but won
ders in nature, great, grand ana sublime.
sour hotels are Duiit inside the park, at a
distance of twenty five mile apart and at
places of noted interest, where visitors
are now handsomely entertained While
going through tue grounds. This won
dertul place so properly dedicated to the
people of this United States; to be held
sacred for them while the Nation lasts,
VIII ere long be the pride OF all our people.
~ VIII be place where every citizen OF
tle United HEHt9A ftal
at home, assured by the fact that IL be-
longs to himself.
Tue Northern Pacific railroad haa built
branch road, 81 miles long, running
south from Livingston, station on the
main line, to Cinnabar, near the en-
trance to the park grounds. There the
visitors take four horse stages and are
driven to Mammoth Hot Springs Hoteln
which 10 inside the grounds, and where
Ghey arrive about p. IN. They have under
the present arrangements all afternoon to
visit points of interest at that place,
There are the famous Hot springs, bluber-
1nR their boiling water out OF the ground,
not enough to cook potato in a few min
utes. These springs are quite large, tue
waters are green, and they form quite a
stream as they HOw down the mJuutain
side. Each spring is located one above
the other. The lowest one is right on the
bank of mountain stream that flows
down the narrow valley, This stream 10
full OF brook trout. They are caught in |
this mountain stream, right by this boiling |
spring. One can, without taking the fish |
from the hook, or without moving from
the place where he stood when catching |
the fish, suspend it from the same line |
auto the boiling spring, and in few min |
utes II would be cooked for dinner. This |
is no II 5h story.
As YOU ascend the mountain, Just about
one hundred feet above the valley, and
at laF loo e tFf.,,
other boiling and steamng spring, belch.
ing forth and foamiug over the |
Dreclplce to join the waters below, |
fou continue to ascend other ledges !
and other boiling springs continue to
JeLch rorlh uutll you are more than
thousand feet above the first spring and
.'OOO feet above tue sea level. Ths fOun-
'@ln mead for these springs must be still
hgler, IN some mountain range further |
PACK, and the waters flow through some |
passage wherein some
motheTinR burning volcano is heating |
oihe portion Of this mountain to an
intense heat. IL is prob4ble that some
lay this volcano will Dugst forth with flee
,hu iaVa,and perhaps some day suDmar.e !
ne N1tels ana cluster Of lJuses tnat stand
ear it base. I
twenty-five miles further south the z
lsltor reaches ,ne Norris Gcyser basin. {
: covers an areh OF six square miles and | q
very Interesting place. The many lot
prings here ago Ot such q character that
ne Is Impressed with u feeling that he is
ntering the locality OF a great manufac.
lrlnE place Ine terrible noise ana
the hlsstuR OF escaping steam, !
u forces rs way out through the
1eyiceS or the rocks, or bubDsrs no |
trough the restless Wate" in the boiling |
aulCrOn make one fee very cautious 70 |
D near. Tweuiy and thirty miles
lTther south, reached by means
9 came on the grounds Of Lower anu
pper Basin, where tho largest anu most
Geysers aud hot springs 10 tue
orld are located. Iwill not atIempt 10
scribe them in detail. They ere too
lmerous. All o. them ara wonders.
III only refer to those which | thyuu3L
ere the most W0luGTfQl.
AT the Lower Basi". we saw Mountain
syser'' ~ r. Is feet higher than tue
ra.o~,F".y and close TO the hotel. The
" alton or deposit from This Gaysgr |
,vsr5 abOut 10 acres. TINS crater IL sur s
unded with a rim like edge tcur or Ave
et higher than ta. base aud resembles | s
shape a round basket, 30 fee. il diane
r, with hole through tue bolton six or
ght feet in diameter, going down mo
e ground, no one hDOwB how far.
1rOuEh this place comes the clear, boil O.
g water, keeping the pool fun To the
n, II ono slauds on the rim and looks
" alllb dbpAtFhklg 'tNt'Nlhi'.Sb iJtt llN
es the steam coming up through the
EAR water, IL seems as II this pool Was ! ~
injected with the Internal regions. IN
le's doubts are lessened ~ THIS direction ot
len the eruption takes place; fJr y.
en- comes sound like the o.
slant thunder in the storm, ths 90
gaping of steam from a hundred ~.
,am engines aud the splashing of many ! c
.ters, with clouds Of steam ila, dtTkeu In
, atmosphere all around you ana the IL
ladened with the OdOg Of sulphur or uf
mstOne. At every breath the NOUN EN
n belCues forth q huge volume ofgtsam Ia.
'ough the pool OF water, carrying up | i@'
my feet in the air the water, steam and ! p
por, all OF which Ia piCJure terrible t0 VII
lold. il is said by the Indian traditions | Sc
It the red mau of the forest kept mauy tht
les away from this region, as his WS
,erstition led him 10 b.lleys that below III
9 place was the ever burning lake Of IpI
ire and Birthstone" where the bad Iu- sue
n would be compelled 10 go, II ne VII
led 70 reach tue Happy Hunting IN
lund.u Ir
few miles South of this geyser is the heI
yest cauldron in the world. The clear nc
ter il so transparent that you eau see EF'
.rly 100 feet to the bottom OF The pool All
! the water is 80 hot that II bubbles and
Is all the time, night and day, summer
! winter. True to its purpose, il re- TIL
ins on duty faithfully carrying out the
lBu OF nature Tor some goou, no doubt, | Ri
1 is far beyond the finding
of us poor mortals. Near the
tom of this pool it 10 n
4 the skeleton of large buffalo was Il
n in early days. Ii this be so 1t is very inc
ply that it carelessly jumped in and was ard
lded TO death at once. wa
he largest and most popular geyser for va
visitors is the one that is 80 properly wo
neu Oll paltnIul'' Ihls 10 close TO COT
hotel on on the upper Basin" and spouts poi
,er up zUO Ieet, az regular intervals. lt RlC