Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-01-17
The Yellowstone National Park.

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The sublime scenes of this natural
wonderland. situated in the heart of the
Rocky Mountains on the summit of the
continent at an altitude ranging from
! 5000 to l2O00 it above sea level, surpass-
es in interest any other region yet dis
covered. on the face Of the globe.
It is beyond the power of man to
properly describe its many spectacular
features in such way as TO intelligent
" and adequately convey to the minds
Of others true and just conception OF
its unequaled grand mulitddinous
scenic beauties 1t Is here that nature
seems to have enacted her greatest
tragedy 1t is here as nowhere else that
the naturalist, the botanist and the
eeologist are confronted with confusing
and perplexing problems. 1t is here, to
some extent at least, that nature seems
to have successfully contradicted and
set aside the theories concerning the
laws that govern her At least one can
but see. feel and wonder. This wonder
land lies in northwestern Wyoming
and overlaps the adjacent boundaries
Of Montana and Idaho for the distance
of two miles and it is about 60t miles IN
breadth and 50 miles IN length with
large timber reserve, belonging to the
government south of the Park.
All the climatic conditions incidental
to the continent prevail during the
short summer months; frost every ngnt
in the lower levels; frost and ice ID the
higher basins and snow and ice near
the mountain SUBMITS and intense neat
from the scorching MONDAY sun IN the
medium levels remote from natural
shelter
The attractive features of the Park
are to be found IN its dense and shaggy
forests comprising many thousands OF
acres thickly set with varied and unique
fora: hundreds of geysers, hot and cold,
side by side in some instances: some OF
which are in state of constant erupt-
ion. others playing at regular intervals
of from one minute to hours. days,
months and years; crystal lakes and
rivers teening with fishes and covered
with multitudes of water fowl the
home of the otter and the beaver and
also the birth place of the great rivers
of the West: lakes Of boiling mud and
cauldrons of seething natural paints IN
which all the primary coloIs are to be
seen: furious cataracts that distance
Niagara in height of fail; springs or
purest water and springs charged with
apolonaris, sulphur, alum and arsenic;
mountains bleak and bare, mountains
covered with dense timber and noun
tains partly clothed with dwarted un-
dergrowth: mountains of regular for
nation and mountains standing on tnelr
edges or mountains completely over
thrown: deposits of iron, copper, gold,
silver and lead with sprinkling OF
precious stones: mountains composed OF
graystone, sandstone, limestone granite
and an Obsidian mountain or noun
tains of black glass and a roaring noun
tain constitute the principal mountain
scenery. In animal life are to be found
the skulking lynx, the prowling wolf,
the sly fox, the cautious coyote, The
mountain lion, mountain sheep, the
mountain goat, few buffalo, myrlads
Of red squirrel, jack rabbits and comes
and thousands each of deer, antelope
bear and elk Among the birds are to
be seen monster blue jays, huge crows
overgrown hawks and eagles.
OF the natural scenery IN the tark
the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
is universally admitted, by all who have
beheld it, to be the climax. When
viewed in the sunlight its stupenduous
| sides present one wild welter of color;
amber, ochre, cobalt, emerald, crimson.
snow white, vermillion, lemon and
silver gray The impressions received
| from beholding this natural wonder Tor
| the first time Will never be forgotten
Some seem to be overcome WIN awe
and sOlemnity; others give way to bursts
of JOY and ecstactic delight and II IS said
that a few have become insane after
viewing this amazing scene.
] -. in, tAf tire PARK
| has this 10 say concerning the Crane
1 anyon of the Yellowstone; But the
most wonderful part of this American
continent is the Yellowstone Park.
| After all poetry has exhausted itself.
| and ali the Morans and BIerstadtts and
! the other enchanting artists completed
| their canvass, there viii still be othe
| revelations to make and other stories o.
| its beauty and wrath, spiendor an
agony to be recited-thst peroratlon o.
all majesty and grandeur the Grand
| Canyon. 1t is here, that it seems TO me-
and / speak il with reverence. Jehova'
seems to haye surpassed himself 1
seems a great galch let down into rho
eternitles There hung up ami le
down and spread abroad are all the col
| ors of land and sea and SKY; uphoiStel
ling of the Lord God Almighty; be
| work of the Architect OF worlds; scnlp
tnriug by the Infinite; masonry oy an
Omnipotent tlowel What hall thls
would be for the last judgment
See that mi ghty cascade with the raiu-
bows at the foot OF it. II those waters
congealed and transixed with the agi
tatious OF that day, what place they
| would make Tor the shining feet OF d
a Judge Of quick and dead. And those
rainbows look now like the crowns to be
cast at his feet. At the bottom Of this
great canyon is floor on which the
nations OF Spe earth might stand, and
all up ard down these galleries of roc@
the nations of heaven might sit. AND
what reverberatious of Angels trump
cts there would be through all these
gorges and from all these caverns and
over all these heights Why should not
the greatest Of the days the world shall
ever see close amid the grandest scenery
Omnipotence ever built p
l. II. PIsor.