The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK.
FOUNTAIN HOTEL, YELLOW
STONE NATIONAL PARK,
limo 10th. 1894 \

S~oleased to hear few things from
wonderland of the world. On
lrSday, June 18th, l boarded a
them Pacific express for my first
to the great west. A ride of
ty-four hours excluding the time
pent in st. Cloud, Moorhead and
rf-go visiting schools and school men,
light me to Livingstone, Montana.
the good people of Blue Earth
MY could see and learn what l did
Il ough North Dakota and Montana,
y would be happy, industrious
contented people in the good land
1ich the good Lord has made, en-
ned and beautified, and men call
,lthern Minnesota.
ride through mountains. prairieS,
ssless fields, desolate sage brush
ms and "bad lands" makes one
re the rich corn and wheat farms
p Minnesota. | hope to see the day
CII UlIC SONCl nlllCllU Will NdcOC ISSS
ney in some directions and put
ne millions into the irrigation of
sse broad fields. At Livingston we
re surrounded by mountains whose
IVY caps reach far down towards
sair bases A ride by train of fifty
: miles up the valley of the Gardner
er brought US to Cimnalar, 1000
t above the ocean. By stage for
hit miles, we are brought to Nam
tn Hot Springs in the National
llOwstOne Park. This is section
xmountains and valleys reserved by
government as pleasure resort
the world. 1t covers an area in
rthwestern Wyoming of about sixty
e miles square. 1t is said to contain
ndreds of geysers, 10000 hot springs,
DIS, mud and paint pots, besides
9nty of deer, elks, buffalos, antelopes,
'ars and other smaller game, and
2, after two days spent in the Park
es not doubt this. The government
acts very strict laws for the care of
these, and places here $50 U. S.
valrymen to guard. These are I'M
r the command Of Capt. Anderson,
18th whom it has been my pleasure
Sterday and today to visit many OBJ
It's of interest. The government
5 built roads for about LIS miles
ross mountains and rivers, through
rests and canons and parks and val
rs and plateaus, past geysers, falls,
'ScadeS and gorges. On this stage
ip one sees most of the remarkable
atureS of this remarkable region.
he scenery in it's grandeur, beauty
d picturesqueness of forest, lake,
yer and mountain is not surpassed
the world That of Switzerland
II short of this to me in everything
cept its patriotic and historical as
Citations. There is also much here
at is weird, desOlate, awful in it's
ined, PROSTATE forests, Volcano
lit mountains, vast geysers cones
I'd basins, hell's half acres, earth
acked canOns. This is nature in
imeval condition, showing its awful
rms and forces, untouched by the
md Of man.
| am now somewhat familiar with
lie Mammoth Hot Springs area, and
e three most wonderful geySer
sins on the globe; the Norris geyser
sin, the upper and the lower geyser
sins. To reach these has necessi-
ted about seventy miles of travel in
lie park already. At Mammoth Hot
brings there are the barracks for the
yernment soldiers, homes for the
ficerS and a large hotel built by the
orthern Pacific r. r. company. An
sy walk from the hotel brings one
Minerva Terrace, really made up of
Ie whiteSt of lime in dozens of ter
ces of various sizes, shapes and
cures, rising one above another in
,autiful formation, with many
aped shallow bowls on top. The
untains that scolloped and moulded
this beauty became extinct last
inter. These terraces now become
lie prey of the elements as hundreds
acres Of such sculptured work have
the past about here. Near by are
le Mammoth and Jupiter Hot
brings which really are not larger or
cher than scores of others in this re-
on. The springs varying in tempera-
Ire from 100 to 270 degrees are con-
nually flowing water which makes
Id fills new bowls, and the overflow
rms the Pulpit and other terraces
such beauty of form, colOring and
etwork. 1t ripples in sheets oyer all
water over icicles in winter. You
lsS from springs to caves to forma-
ons of every color and shape and
re. Their names oft tell that they
some animal, flower or furni-
Ire. l actually think the ladies
,uld here find some excuse for their
ew style in garments with full
eeyes.
Old Liberty cap stands sixty feet
gh to tell of the long centuries in
bich he was beinp denOSited nv the