Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-02
WONDERS or YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Changes which observaat Tourists Havs
Notea-New Phenonena Developed.

Changes which Obs.ryast Tourists Have
Noted-New Phenomena Developed. i
II lis certain that the great park has not
yet begun 10 be known or fully UNDER
stood. II Is only within year or two
that records have been kept. and these
begin 20 show most wonderful and mar
velous changes in some Of the phenomena.
A tourist travelling over any of the geyser
basins will tell Of the wonders as he saw
them. Succeeding tourists win tell OF
visits TO the same place. but sometimes
the stories will differ widely. The reason
for these discrepancies il that the wonders
ure seen at different dates. For instance:
The Beehive, Giant and other geysers
have been for some ycars practically ex~
tinct, but now they suddenly blossom out
into tie most powerful and active geysers
in their respective lasins. The most
reasonable theory seems TO be that under
lying each gcyser besin "a always n GER
tain amount of force which must find
vent In some way. Tie channels that
connect may sometimes become choked,
when the power seeks another outlet, and
goes out through the mouth of the most
convenient opening. The Castle geyser,
which had not been active for some time,
was last year set TO spouting and boiling
in most violent manner by simply drop
ping A. few bars Of laundry soap down his
yellow coated throat.
The Giant, which last year was thought
to be dying OF dead, suddenly burst into
activity May 81 last. A small pine tree
lad been laid across the crater for the
purpose Of indicating by lis removal
possible discharge. and all at once ON
May 21 this pine limb was hurled 200
feet into the air by vertical column of
water, which continued to shoot upward
for two solid hours. The remarkable
Phenomena connected with this monster
eruption was that nearly all the other
geysers in the basin suspended operations
( for the time icing. in order to give the
Giant full sway lie did his work efrec-
tually, filling Firehole river TO les brim,
which continued to run bank full for
some hours afterward, temporarily drain
ing every other geyser and spring in the
neighborhood dry. Old Faithful was the
only one who paid no attention TO thu
Giant, going aff regularly every hour and
keeping up the credit Of his good name
In spite af tiieefIorts Of the .sking Of the
! basin" to choke him of.
Many new wonders have developed
grandeurs the beautiful geysers, boiling
caldrons, mud pots and falls. The
Sobbing Fountain, Bleeding Heart spring,
Silver Globe geyser and Fountain gey-
ser can certainly have no superior in the
park or elsewhere on earth. The fount-
ain has neither cl mney nor crater,
being simply large. hot, open faced
blue spring, which is acquiring beneath
1t somewhere n power more vast and
huge than any other fount or spring in
the park. You come upon this large
$50 by 50) spring and would take it for
anything else but geyser. When an
eruption Ia about TO occur a tiny little
squirt or Jet OF water is sent dancing into
the air from small orifice rear By called
the ..indicator, = and q few seconds after.
ward crashl bangi splashl goes the big
blue spring, and one Of the rarest spec.
tacles in the park is before your eyes.
Having no crater or chimney, the water
simply goes up In a mass. and, not being
able 20 come down ON the ascending
volume, falls gracefully outward, form
ing a gigantic fountain sparkling witt
rainbow colors and dripping with
million glistening beads. This Is IN
doubtedly new eeyser, and win per
No. haps in time build up for itself hand
ct some Gaping or throat, equal in beant
&c and design to the others In the basins
NJ Possibly all the geyser formations wer
IN begun in this way. When the cone
% constructed for the fountain, the mas
. u of water 1t now throws out indicates tina
:" ii will be the most powerful geyser 9
them all.
The Silver Globe spring Il of the lin
o. OF travel, and consequently is never see
n, except by these who specially go out Q
us the way for the purpose. II N an Oh
he trail from the midway to the uppe
es basin. its popularity never being discoy
70 cred by the first visitors wis passed IN
ed little insignificant pooi of water hy
~ and was only found lately by Mr.. Her
"a ~ derson. who Is always ON tho lookout fe
~ new discoveries. This little wonder spoui
4. forth the most beautiful bubbles imagir
h, able. Fancy succession of soap bal
=. bles sailing in the air, Lit up by rainbo'
4 colors and glinting with sunshine. an
Iet you have the eccentHcity Of the Silvs
he Globe spring complete. The spring itse
IN. Is also marvel of beauty in its own wa,
nd Funnel shaped down TO a point lost
,ts the depths Of the earth, bordered with
let spangy jelly like edging Of green mos
Or hahitually OF soft yellow satin tint, an
Or vet ever changing into the most delicai
U.s. shades Of pink and red. the spring i
ar indeed, the peer OF anything in the parl
Now stand ON the edge and watch TIN
tiny round glass object no larger than
a. pea, which is slowly rising to the surfac'
~ y. Tie pea develops into globe OF silye
:; and as il comes upward IL suddenly ii
nm creases in size and makes dash for II
lo surface. Out comes the bubbles and L
ere mounts the balloon into the air, but onl
oss for an instant does il oscillate, when q
he at once the bubble collapses, the gaseo'
ma interior escapes. the VISION vanishes an
ite another rises TO take It's ce.-Montal
'or Cor. Philadelphia Times.
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