The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-15
THE HOODOO REGION.
Curious Sights and scenes in yell
IOWstone Park.

curious Sights and Scenes in yell
IOwstone Park.
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone
Park, Wyo.. Aug. 1l.-since the park has
become national resort, it has been Wis
tied by hundreds of thousands of people
from all parts of the globe. Every nation
on the face Of the earth has at some time
or other had one or more of its distin-
guished people there And while these Wis
itors have seen many parts of the park
there is one section rarely visited by tour
lists. Not that it is not worth seeing, but
because it is almost inaccessible. 1t is
called the Hoodoo Region, or Goblin Land
IL IS Wen worth the attempt to reach this
section Of the park for the sights TO be
seen there are perfectly wonderful. 1t is
a weird, spooky spot; mountainous, wild
and rugged, and the formations of nature,
which assume the most fantastic forms,
has given IL its name which is a most ap-
proprlate one. The park has an area of
800 square miles, and 275l of them are
covered with dense forests. 1t is the for
ests one has to go through by means of
trails on horseback. which makes this
region hard to reach so it is seldom VS.
tied. w. c. Riley of ST. Paul was one of
the first white men to visit this district,
scription of il:
The Hoodoo region is the mountaineer
term for the eroded portion of the Sierra
Shoshone mountains, partially outside the
eastern boundary of the park, between the
Passamaria or Stinking-Water fork of the
East fork of the Yellowstone river. This
strange locality is situated about forty
five miles southeast of Baronettes bridge
1t was discovered in 1910 by a party of
miners prospecting for gold, and has been
visited thus far by only few tourists
Col. Norris reached this region by ascend
ing the valley of the East fork of the
Yellowstone in 1880, having been driven
back by Indians two years before while
endeaVorlng to explore in this direction
These Indians were encamped upon an
elevated plateau, screened by frs, COM
mandng fine view Of all the approaches
In 1880, when this camp was visited there
was abundant evidence that il had been
frequently occupied by the red men dur
ing the summer season after borNr raids
and massacres, the ground being strewn
with the remnants of clothing, blankets
and chnaware
The Hoodoo region is high up the
mountain and the train leading to it is
over wild and rough country the diff
culties of which only the most enterpris-
ing tourists are willing to encounter. The
Hoodo or Goblin mountain, is 1000 feet
in hight and one mile in length Glacial
action has worn extensive labyrinths
In the conglomerate breccia and the vol
canic rocks Upon the southern face OF
the mountain, extending from 500 to 500
feet below the summit, the frost and
storms or ages have worn numberless
deep, narrow. crooked channels amid the
slender tottering pillars, shafts, mounds
and pyramids which form this singular
maze. The formations are totally unlike
IN shape those seen in other eroded dis
uicts. They are not symmetrical, but as
sumo every curious and fantastic form,
among which may be seen gigantic fig
ureS of beasts. birds and reptiles one
mound is described as looking like a large
altar pyre, 125 feet in hight resting on "A
pyramidal base, the sacriilcial victim ly-
ing ON the top. Two monumental blocks,
thirty feet in hight, appear to be sur
mounted by great recumbent birds.
"Some of the enormous columns take
the shape of petrihed bears sitting upon
their launches. One tall pillar, almost a
perfect obelisk in form, resting upon a
massive rectangular pedestal, has a large
sandstone boulder adhering to its side,
about one-third distant from its base, as
II fixed there by magnetic attraction.
There is a cone-shaped monument, 100 feet
nigh, which poises most deftly upon one
of two slender points at its apex an inn
mense boulder Near by is a bulky, dome
like formation which supports upon it's
summit what appears TO be mammoth
mushroom. Indeed there Is no end TO
the strange and spectral shapes which are
met in these weird labyrinths at every
turn. The rocks are of all shades of color,
and in many places, among the winding
passages between them are tunnels in ice
and snow which afford safe hiding places
for the mountain sheep. Mysterious uu-
dulating sounds. heard overhead in this
region, only serve to intensity the by no
means agreeable feeling excited i'm the
traveller by its weird and preternatural
appearance. According to Col. Norris,
eagles hover in large numbers over the
Iloodoo mountains. finding subsistence
upon the carcasses of the lambs which
they make their prey, by hurting the ami
NAL from the crags upon the jagged rocks
hundreds of feet below. Sometimes the
feats OF these crafty birds are terminated
by the appearance OF the cougar or the
sneakng wolverine upon the scene"
Tourists in the park this week from
Georgia are: Atlanta-H +. Emery, Miss
Annie and Miss Anna Emery Miss Emma
Paulson, Misses A. and b. Simpson, Miss
Marie Holiday Mrs. W. T. Ashford, Miss
Ashford, Miss Black.