The Newtown bee., 1905-11-03

air. Our guide told us that the bears came there in winter to warm their feet. Here also were places where it is thought boiling hot springs had been, but now are dry and extinct. One of these, small place 12 inches in A little farther on we came to the Devils parlor. eight feet square. Still farther we came to His MajeSty'S kitchen, 30 feet deep and 15 feet long. Several of our party went down ladders inside and found it Stifling hot. These are 1000 feet above sea level.
 Saturday morning we left Mammoth Hot Springs for a trip through the park, in yellow four-horse coaches built Concord style, carrying l2 per sons each. There were 13 coaches in our train, the Raymond Whitcomb taking the lead. As we start, so we first all the way around. We were in the second, and so we were all the time. We had very good driver. His name was Kinney. He was a native of Montana, but his ancestors crossed the plains in l849 We did not succeed in finding out whether he was related to any of our townspeople or not. At first our route lay at the foot of the beautiful terraces we had visited the day before After drive of four miles we came to Golden Gate, a narrow passage between Sepulcher mountain and Bunsen peak. It is most inter- esting place. The side of BunSen peak is covered with yellow mass which suggests the appropriate name the pass bears. Here the government has spent many thousands of dollars to make it passab!e In so doing it was necessary to build vjaduct of steel and concrete at one point at cost Of | $lO, 1000. This is the only viaduct Of it's kind in the world. Twelve miles l from Mammoth Hot Springs we came to Obsidian cliff, a cliff of natural volcanic glass. It is high and black. We were told that in former years the Indians used the material for arrow heads. Beaver lake is at the foot of the cliff. We saw several dams the north we saw Electric peak, 11,125 | feet high. It derives it's name from the fact that great deposit oe min erals renders the workings of the sur veyOrs' instruments impossible when on the mountain peaks. We soon dis covered that the passenger coaches took the inside track, freight teams the outside. We reached Norris Basin about T. 30, after drive of 20 miles. All did justice to the ample lunch which was soon ready. About l o'clock we started out with guide to visit the places of interest and be picked up by the coaches three miles farther on. This was a very interest. ing walk. One might have thought that they were in the midst of large
 manufacturing district, judging from the noise and steam that was Scaplng.
 There are acres here of boiling springs, but l can speak of only few. First we came to the Devils Frying-pan, a place where there were 40 or 50 small boiling springs very close together, all boiling and bubbling at a great rate
 The water smelled very strong of sul'
 phur. The Devils boiler, next, was an extremely noisy place. If you can all blowing off steam at one time, you can form some idea of the noise and
 the quantity of steam emitted. The
 Devil's bath tub also makes furious
 noise, boiling and laundering, then al
 is quiet few minutes. We asked the
 guide to explain this to us if he could He replied that when that horrible
 rumbling was going on His Majesty
 the Devil, was taking a bath, anc
 when it was quiet he had pulled out
 the plug and let off the water. The
 Black GrOwler is another horrible
 place. This also throws up great
 volume of steam, and very peculiar
 growing sound comes from here. The
 deposit around this crater is of inky
 blackness, hence it's name-Blach
 GrCwler. Only short distance from
 this forbidding object is the beauti
 fully shaped and beautifully colored
 Emerald spring. The deposit in the
 bottom is green, thus giving the water
 an emerald tint. The New Crater
 geyser, about 500 feet from Emerald
 spring, is surrounded by huge darA
 yellow rocks. The water runs out o1 this every 30 seconds, then comes back and is heated over again. Saw Surprise } is thrown into it. The Monarch is king of geysers at Norris Basin, being the most powerful one when in action The explosions come without warning and consist of dozen or more, Whe1 d great deal of water is thrown out } Near the Monarch is the platform where we take the coaches for thu afternoon drive. Our way during the } afternoon took us alongside of two o the largest rivers in the Park, th' Gibbon, named in honor of Gen Johl } Gibbon, and Fire-hole river We al S . passed two Chocolate springs, beini V , the river bank and one on the other wholly unlike anything in the park We reached Fountain hotel at an earl ? hour, after ride of 40 miles, 20 befOr lunch and 20 after. One of the chic points of interest near by is the Foun tain geyser, one of the most beautiful . in the park. The eruptiOns are ever four or five hours. During activit } the main volume of water does no | reach height of over 15 or 20 feet , but jets are thrown up 60 or 70 feet
 The Paint Pots, another wonder, near by. Some one has called thet
 "muSh prOlS;' a strange boiling, DOT ' ping vat filled with beautifully tinte . mud, mortar CT paste. The dinin
 room wall at the hotel was iniShe t with it. Here we saw the first bears |, when they came to the dump, just be 7 fore dark not far from the hotel,
 get their supper. There were tw
 cubs among them. They were all tint :. fat, sleek fellows, and came out of tn n woods cautiously as if trying to decid whether the audience in the distanc
 was evilly disposed toward them. W
 greatly enjoyed seeing them mov
 about in their natural and unhan
 pered state.
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