The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-12-20
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Interesting Description Of this Beautiful
Territory-lts Geysers, Springs. and
Other Curiosities.
MISS DELLA K. BEEGLE, OF EVERETT.

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yet In store for us, the climax OF
the tour. thought many times,
how well 1t has all been planned,
each day finds something greater
and more beautiful than the day
previous. The wild flowers too
seemed to live up to this rule.
Some places the road was lined
with these beauties. We crossed
plain that was literally blue with
fringed gentlaDs, but nowhere
were the flowers so beautiful nor
so abundant as in the vicinity of
the Grand Canyon. Here 1 found
twenty varieties without especial
ly looking for them. Among
which were Indian pink, paint
brush, aster, blue. bell, wisteria,
larkspur, daisy, violet and gen.
tian.
Mud Volcano was one of the
sights we saw on our way to the
Canyon Hotel. 1t Is repulsive and
uncanny but nevertheless inter
esting, always belching and
throwing with great violence It's
thick mud from it's cavelIke fun
mel against the sides of it's prison.
Arriving at the hotel we take
lunch, after which we go out to
spend the afternoon viewing the
canyon. AS one stands on the
brink of this remarkable chasm
and gazes upon the scene he rec
ognizes the utter impotency OF
words to describe it. Any one
not seeing the canyon of the Vel
lOwstone can not imagine what it
is to stand at the very edge of
those ''point lookouts" and look
down for 1000 feet, over rocks of
every conceiva BILE color and hue,
with here and there a pine tree
which seems to be growing out
of rare jewels, while at the base
of the chasm a beautiful stream,
much resem bling white ribbon
shaded here and there into a deep
green, flows along angrily, fall
ing 100 feet to every mile.
Now looking up the canyon we
see the magnificent Lower Falls
Of the Yellowstone. 1t is posi-
BILE to follow train to the foot of
this fall, and by other trails we
can descend near enough to hear
the great roar oil the water and
feel the mist in our faces. We
descended at several places en-
joylng each descension with a
new interest, seeing something
entirely different az, each point,
for every tower, buttress, ram
part, cliff and wall is elaborately
and minutely yet differently en-
bellished. In colors it seemed to
me the reds and yellows predom-
mated. These are found in all
grades and mixtures. Also white,
clean and pure or sometimes aged
and weathered INTO grays or
browns. Green, lavender and
black, too, assume a prominent
part IN the color symphony.
From two different points we
saw eagles nests parched away
out on some iutting cliff where no
idle hands could reach and no
rife would dare to harm. In
nearly every nest were little
eaglets stretching their necks
for some morsel of food that their
mothers were sure to bring home.
On the way from the hotel down
to the principal part of the can
yon we passed an enormous gran
lte rock of unusually tine quality
surrounded by a dense forest
which has stood hundreds OF
years Judging the size Of the
trees, going to show it must have
been placed there by volcanic
eruption long before the trees
grew there.
We spent the night here so near
where at one time fearful havoc
must have been played to tear -"
wonderful gorge a. the canyon
Of the Yellowstone. 1t seems to
me an undebatable fact that H.
vils caused by volcanic acton.
yet some persist In saying II i.aS
been worn by the river.
| Let US think for a moment how
strangely thls river behaves. For