Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-09-16
Wonders orthe Yellowstone Park.


this park in as simple way as possible.
The description, like that of Yosemite,
must be very incomplete at best, for this
is truly what is called wonderland
You are surprised at every turn.
This is national park" in the north
western part of Wyoming. 1t is about 60
miles long by 80 miles wide, embracing
discovered practically till 1863 or 20 and
since then has been set aside by the gov
eminent and is guarded by United States
soldiers The park is near the Northern
Pacific r. r three days ride from San
Francisco and two days ride from Chica-
go.
We left the main line at Livingstone,
Montana, and went by rail to Cinnahar, 81
miles, and from CHINA bar TO Mammoth
Hot Springs, s miles, where the stop is
made for the first night. l had party Of
80 that / chaperoued through the park.
We were we'll cared for and found the no.
tel and transportation managers gentle
men in every respect. The regular trip
through the park, including everything
from Livingstone to LivingstoDe-rail-
road, staging, board and lodging for i've
aud one halt days-costs $3.50 each.
At Mammoth Hot Springs we saw the
famous terraces. 1t is said that the Nam.
moth Hot springs are now without rival
as the most remarkable development OF
thermal action TO be found 10 the world
occupying over 170 acres, with 10 distinct
terraces and over 90 active springs. Dr.
Hayden (of park fame) remarks: 'rhe
wonderful transparency of these waters
SURPRISES anything OF the kind ] have
ever seen in any other portion of the
world. One can look down into the clear
depths and see with perfect dlstinctness
the minutest ornament on the inner sides
OF the basins. And the exquisite beauty
OF the coloring and the variety OF form
battle any attempt to portray them with
pen or brush" Liberty Cap is an extinct
not spring cone, standing at the foot OF
Terrace Mt. near the road, So feet high
and 20 feet in diameter at lis base. Min
erva terrace is a mass OF deposit, lime-like
substance, 40 feet in height, covering an
area of nearly three fourths of an acre,
with hot spring on the summit, some 20
feet in diameter the temperature OF which
is, at the edge, 15i degrees Fahrenheit.
This completes the first day OF the park.
On second day morning we are of in
large Concord coaches, for our first days
sta ying. Morris basin, the lunch station,
consisting OF tents and tables, Is 20 miles
away. We are off past the terraces and
face southwark toward the park. Ahead
of us rose Bunsen peak and 10 the right Of
US was Terrace Mt, and betw cen these W.
passed through what is called The Golden
rise perpendicularly here TO height OF 200
or 800 feet, making it most picturesque.
Emerging from this pass we came into
great valley known as Swan Lake valley.
Far to the right in he distance is snow
capped Electric peak. Some miles further
on we pass along the edge Of Obsidian cliff
practically mountain OF glass--on the
side OF which the road was built at an enor-
nous expense as the mountain was so
hard that no steel would drill il and the
roadbed was made by building great fires
on the cliif and, when the stone or glass
was heated, throwing cold water upon IL.
Thensin the sudden cooling II scaled of
little. Roaring mountain was high up TO
our left and Is so called from the roaring
noise of escaping steam near its top.
At Morris basin we got dinner and saw
the famous landlord, Larry" Matthews,
whom no visitor at the hotel ever forgets.
At Morris basin there are several hot
springs and geysers, which we hastened
TO see while waiting few minutes. A
little geyser here known as Constant" or
" Minuteman" Is interesting. 1t has an
eruption every sixty seconds. During an
eruption, Jets OF water are thrown 40 feet
in the air, but the volume is not large.
The greatest phenomenon at Morris basin
is perhaps "The Black Grovler," though
not appropriately named as IL consists of
a crater, simply a hole in the ground
through the stone, out OF which Is con-
stantly escaping great quantities OF steam
which produces a peculiar sound, like 20
locomotives blowing off steam all at once
and 1t can be heard for miles away. Very
little water escapes.
But on to the "Grand Canon" and Great
Falls OF the Yellowstone, eleven miles for
the afternoon. We arrive about O'Clock, |
having passed through a heavy hailstorm,
the first rain since leaving Kansas City
n ns.N he.
pen eau describe When we passed /
through the Grand canon of the Arkansas I
on the Denver & Rio Grande X. r., we
used up all our adjectives. We could on
" sit as in the presence of Majesty and as
We looked up through nature TO natures /
God exclaim, Wonderful But here you
have, not only the magnificent canon with 1
all its sculptured forms, with the beauti-
ful Yellowstone river flowing through 1t,
stretched out as a ribbon along the bot
ON, with cliffs and walls 500 feet high /
On either side, making IL equal in gran
ieur and sublimity to any other canon in
he world, but you have here added to all
his coloring that no other landscape of
III the world can boast of. Two gentle
nan from England were with us and both
" then are connected with the colleges
u England and have travelled much. In
InsWer to my question, ~How does this
compare with the scenery of the Rhine2n
hey both said as with one breath, 'The
Rhine has nothing to compare with IT.
he Rhine is awfully exaggerated. This is
1t is worth coming a great
distance to see; the coloring is exquisite.
The Rhine has nothing like it, worthy of
with it,
From the pen of DIR. Wayland Hoyt we
lave the following:
"Those are not simple grey and hoary
epths and reaches and domes and pima
les of sullen rock. The whole gorge
lanes. Ii is as though rainbows had fall
en- out of the sky and hung themselves
here like glorious banners. The UNDER
wing color is the clearest yellow; this
ushes onward into orange. Down at the
ase the deepest MOSES unroll their dra-
cries of the most vivid green; browns.
wet and soft, do their blending; white
ocks stand spectral; turrets OF rock shoot
p as crimson as tho they were drenched
trough with blood. II is wilderness of /
dior. II is impossible that even he pen
il of an artist can tell it. What you {
'ould call, accustomed to the softer tints
nature, a great exaggeration would be
he utmost tameness compared with the
sality. Il is as il the most glorious sun ,
4 you ever saw had been caught and {
ED upon that resplendent, awful gorge"
Such is the Grand canon OF the Yellow
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