The Green Forest tribune., 1904-09-10

alone, would have a national reputation. The order of the climax in which the sights along the way succeed each other in a very satisfactory feature. Each days sights are just little
 greater than the day before.
 r,. Our first day we viewed tie
 formation at Mammoth Hot Springs. The most important of these terraces are the Angel, Pulpit, Minerva and Jupiter. The last is the largest, covering several acres; the first is the most beautiful, being decked in every color of the rainbow. From here We drove twenty miles, through Silver Pass and Golden Gate, past the Hoodoos and Beaver Lake, then on past Emerald pool and Obsidian Cliff. The road at this point was constructed in a novel manner. The use of blast ing powder was out of the Ques- tion, for, the hill being of pure glass, no tools could be devised to drill holes in it. So fires were built along the edge, and when 1t was expanded i'll this way water was dashed on to break 1t into such fragments as could be re- moved.
 We camped at the Fountain, the center of the second general region of most interest; all about here are the bub6Iing springs, in reality, halfway volcanoes. The region looks anu sounds still more like as if a whole city full of factories had been buried underneath an avalanche of earth; only their smoke stacks and steam pipes reaching near the surface. Ihe feature here is the Mammoth Paint-P0t, 8 remarkable mud caldron, fifty feet in diameter, in the basin of which is mass of fluid sab- stance ill state of constant ebalition. It Is composed of oil, lime, clay and water.
 The drIye next ltay brought us to the higher Geyser Basin. This Is the region of those things the Indians called "SteambOat Springs;' those strange erup- tions of hot water from cones raised above the surface of the ground and shaped like craters of volcanoes. Normally these holes stand level full of boiling water; they explode in tall, straight columns from hlty 1eov in helght to two hundred and fifty at irregular intervals, varying from once an hour, as in the case of the reliable friend Of the tour ists, Old Faithful, to only once d week, in the case of the Giant, and lasting anywhere from tile ten seconds, of the Economic, to the ten. hours of the Giantess.
 The fourth days trip brought us to the Yellowstone Lake, which is 15x20 miles i'll size. It is the largest body of water in North America at this altitude, 5000 feet. We crossed on the way the famous Continental Divide, the so-called "Back bone of North America. :" It IS the ridge along which is the junction of the two great water beds, so sharp that two drops of rain fall- ing from the same cloud scarce d hundred yards apart will find their way eventually the one to the Pacific and the other to the Atlantic Ocean. Tine Yellow stone lake is d beautiful body of water, but no one was thinking of that when we reached 1t, all were looking for what they had heard of-the Hot Spring cone. This hot spring boils so close to the cold waters edge that you can stand on the side of this cone, catch fish in the cold water, and without removing 1t from the hook, swing 1t ou the line back over your head anu cook it in the boiling water.