Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-28
Wonderful Things Are to Be
Seen In the National Reserve.
Beauty and Grandeur of the YeI-
iOwstOne Canyon rIust BE
Seen to Be Appreciated.


Ndu JOu ttOtCis YELLOWSTONE L dIks
July 19.-Since we entered the
Park last Thursday morning, we
have Travelled over many miles of
mountain roads and there has been
such constant round of, sight
seeing that literary work was out
of the question.
From Dwelle, where l wrote last
after a drive of 20 miles from
Monida, a coach ride of % miles
brought our party to the Fountain
Hotel, the 6rst of the large hotels in
the Park. The ride was through
forests of pine all the way, the
roads being we'll improved and
staked Oft with mile posts.
Here we stopped for dinner and
remained half a day. The first
geysers were seen at this stop, in
what is called the Lower Basin.
The Fountain geyser had several
eruptions while we were there,
throwing its boiling water to a
height of 80 or 40 feet.
The Great Fountain, a mile from
the hotel, had one eruption, which
many of our party went to see. It
spOuts to a height Of 100 feet,
about twice a day. The Mammoth
Paint Pots, great caldron of bub-
bling mud of different colors, 40 by
90 feet; Clepsydra Spring and
Firehole Lake are other attractions
here. In the latter several flames
of FIRE, or what seems to be, may be
seen down in the lake of boiling
water. A large white sulphur
spring of hot water is near the
Paint Pots and the water is piped
to the hotel and is used for hot
baths, just as it comes from the
earth.
Friday morning the trip covered
a distance of ten miles to the Upper
Geyser Basin, where another half
day and the night following were
spent. By-the-way, the nights are
very short up on these mountains.
1t is not dark until after nine o clock
and day breaks very early-I am
told. I have not seen it break so
far. There is no regular hotel
the e, though one is under construc-
ton. There is a fine lunch stand
and a long row of tents with six
comfortable apartments in each,
and everybody slept in the tents
Friday night. They were well
heated with stoves and the beds
were supplied with heavy blankets
and altogether the night was spent
quite comfortably. Old Faithful,
the most popular geyser in the
Park, because it is one of the larg-
est ones and performs regularly
every 65 or 20 minutes, was near
the tents. We saw this geyser
play half dozen times. 1t throws
water $50 feet high and the erup-
ton lasts or 4 minutes. There
are % named geysers near this
hotel, besides hundreds of bot
springs, steam vents and yawning
chasms filled with boiling water.
The Giant is the largest, throwing
water $50 feet every 3 or 4 days.
The Grand goes up 200 feet every
few days, and the Giantess $50 feet
about once a week. None of these
big ones played for our party,
though several smaller ones added
to our entertainment. The object
of this correspondence is not to give
anything like detailed description
of these wonderful works of nature.
They must be seen to be appre-
ciated.
Saturday morning another drive
of 3S miles was begun to Lake View
Hotel, on Yellowstone Lake. A
stop was made at a half way point
for lunch and there were several
objects of interest at the noon stop.
There we're more hot springs and
mud caldrons. The paint pots here
were almost as large as those in the
Lower Basin. A boiling spring
runs out of the top of cone-shaped
in the edge of the lake at
this point, called the West Thumb.
stood on this rock aud saw dozens