Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-12-15

springs. Inc spring Is now dead, but
along the creek just below are several
small ones highly charged with gases
and salts Of sulphur, soda &c.
Zone of these has developed into q
popularity that is decidedly unique.
Passing by it recently in the midst Of a
severe storm, was struck with the
peculiar blackness Of the sediment up
on the bottom of the spring and the
short outlet which leads its waters into
the creek. just then rancher came
along, and. seeing me, said:
..See my barometerP That spring is
the finest barometer in the. United
States. When it's going to rain. or
raise hi with the weather. that spring
gives the hull snap away by turnin'
black all over its bottom. Otherwise
it's bottom 10 all the same as the lillies
/ of the field, mister. The gray OF the
mornin' and the roses and pinks OF the
evenin' kinder get mixed and mingled
all over it. and she's q daisy then. The
bottom turns whittier than the swan,
when its goin' to snow; redder than q
volcano when its goin' to be hot: green
er than an emerld when q tenderfoot
looks in it,
II thought he was telling me fairy
story.s A month later found me again
at the spring. The day was semi-clear
but fine. Ominous little clouds were
gathering in the upper sky, and it was
getting to be something OF question
what was coming. Snow In the noun
tains in November is something serious.
Going to have little change In
the weather, suggested to the ranch
er, who stood near me.
"'Not much pardner: barometer
says no.
Invent to the spring. The blackness
was wholly gone, and In its place was
the pearly gray OF the morning. while
in the outlet the gray was softly blend
ed with delicate hues of pink and car
mine. 1t was beautiful to the eye, but
the fumes of hydro-sulphnric acid were
unbearable.
..It is a very curious fact that the
sediment from this spring changes
color with the changes of weather.
when mother earth wrinkled out
the Rocky Mountains. there was left
very soft and tender spot in the region
where the Yellowstone Park now lies.
Here her surface crust of rock was
softened from close contact with the
heat which is supposed to hold her in
terror in fluid condition, and there
was raging of volcanoes through
craters and assures many miles in
length. The face of nature must have
been lurid show in those days. Great
rivers of melted rock flowed down the
sides, spread over great areas
Of valley and plain, and incidentally
piled up the greatest Of all the wonders
Of the park. the Shoshone Mountains.
This range is mass OF peaks. in width
about sixty miles, in length more than
q hundred. which are almost wholly
of lava. 1t lies in apparent
~ horizontal beds cut into mighty
canons by the streams. and peculiarly
into the vertical clifEs which
generally cap the SUBMITS Of the peaks.
have measured thickness OF over
J, 900 feet OF lava among these lofty
peaks, which reach with considerable !
uniformity attitudes Of 10, 900 to $4,000
'eet above the level Of the sea. The
walls are wcafhered into Pc
cuiiar shapes OF colossal magnitude,
the scenery novel and nagnffi-
cent.
..The record of the rocks shows no
place in all the earth where SO much
energy has been expended,
md the geysers and springs Dow in ac-
ion are considered to be part Of the dy-
ng throes Of the pcnt-np spirit Of vol
canoes. ST. Paul Globe.
Children Cry for
Pitchers caSt0rla.