The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
N THE GRAND CANYON.
MAGNIFICENT SIGHTS IN THE VEL
LOWSTONE PARK.

Eighteen Miles of Water Between
High WaIIs-Beauties of the Falls.
savannah Visitors to the Park,
and What They Are Seeing.
Grand Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone Park
Wyoming, Sept. 13.-The Rev. DR.. Way
land Hoyt is one of the thousands of dis
unguished people who have visited the
park, and when asked what he thought
OF the Grand canyon of the Yellowstone
replied 1T was an epoch in my life"
While the answer was succinct, it was
sufficiently broad in it's meaning to plain
~ convey the idea that a view of the
canyon is the event of an ordinary man s
life. The opinion of the Rev. DR.. Hovt
is conceded with by practically every one
who views that -to-be-forgotten
sight, for it is one of the stupendous
scenes of nature. A view of it and the
Upper and Lower falls of the Yellow
stone river are by themselves worth a
visit to the park
AS you approach the canyon from the
south by the government road you first
come upon a succession of cascades and
whirlpools in the Yellowstone river lust be-
fore it plunges over the ledge forming the
beautiful Upper falls. The river is about
200 feet wide from the Yellowstone lake
to the falls. About half a mile above
them the river suddenly narrows until it
is not more than sixty or seventy feet
wide In that half mile the river falls
many feet by means of roaring and seeth-
ing cascades and rushes madly down it's
narrow channel, laundering against huge
rocks partially obstructing its way in mid
stream, until it makes a sudden turn to
the east and dashes over a precipice
forming the first or Upper falls, roaring
and mumbling in it's descent, as though
glad to be released. and dashing itself
into white foam on the hidden rocks
below. Half mile beyond, after winding
in and around, the river takes another
plunge downward, this one being 800 feet
Between the falls the river widens, but
contracts again at the brink and falls
down into the canyon in a comparatively
narrow but powerful and beautiful mass
The mist rising from these falls is great
resembling enormous clouds of steam, and
when the sun shines upon them, the rain
bow effects are many and as vivid ana
beautiful as can be imagined.
After the water has passed over the
lower falls, it finds itself within the walls
of the Grand canyon, and flows between
them for a distance of eighteen miles, the
walls gradually decreasing in hight until
there is nothing left of them, the losing
their identity with the surrounding coun-
try. 1t rushes through this highly-col-
ored gorge with a terrific force, accompa-
MED by an awful seething and laundering
roar The pathway of the water is
broken in innumerable places by falls,
cascades and whirlpools and it is beaten
into an exceptionally foaming condition
by its velocity, which is estimated to be
about thirty miles an hour. The highest
falls in the canyon are a sheer drop of
forty-five feet, but they are indistingush-
able from the ordinary foamlng places In
the river caused by the cascades, owing
to the dizzy depth of the canyon from In
spiration Point and Point Lookout AL
though the river is $50 feet wide through
out the canyon, il does not look to be more
than fifteen or twenty from the brink, and
at first tourists are 10th to believe that
the silvery ribbonlike streams thousands of
feet below them contains the vast column
of water which rushes pellmell over the
two precipices several miles above.
In fact, there is more water below the
falls than above it, for the edge of the
river on both sides, all along down the
canyon, is lined with hot springs and gey-
sers. These pour unknown quantities of
boiling water into the river for over fif-
teen miles Some idea as to the amount
of water brought up by these subterra-