The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-11-22
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Interesting Description OF this Beautiful
Territory Geysers, Springs, and
Other Curi0sities.
MISS DELLA K. BEEGLE, OF EVERETT.

Billings, Mont, Oct. 81, 1905.
So much has been written and
spoken about the Yellowstone
Park, and yet so much remains
to be SAID, FOR every one who Wis
It's this great wonderland, sees
and writes something that has
lot been seen by IA previous visl.
tor, or, at least, did not appeal to
him.
The Yellows tone National Park
is situated in the northwest cor
ner of Wyoming, in the heart of
the Rocky Mountains. Its bound
aries overlap few miles INTO
Montana and Idaho. Because
this United States reservoirs call
ed a park, you must not think it
IS little. The Yellowstone Park
Is almost as big as the State of
Connecticut. The Park dimen.
sions are sixty five uliles east and
west and seventy five miles north
and south. No valley within it's
limits is less than mile above
the sea and there are mountains
in and about 1t over two miles IN
height.
The most curious features OF
this region are its geysers and
hot springs. The geysers of this
region outclass anything of the
kind in the known world. There
are six thousand of them within
the Park limits.
This region was first discover.
: ed IN 1907 by man named Golfer,
a famous hunter. When Golfer
came back to civilization and told
of his discovery the unbelevlng
hearers derislvely called 1t "Colt-
er He'll" Other men explored it
but their reports were regarded
as romances, and it was not un-
til Professor Hayden made his re-
port of the marvellous region in
1871, that Congress was induced
to reserve the whole region as a
public Park. Besides the gey.
sers, all over the Park can be
seen such sights as absidIan cliffs,
hills of sulphur, mineral springs,
gayly covered basins of inactive
geysers, paint pots and geysers.
Professor Hayden has SAID, "the
banks are literally honey combed
with springs, pools and geysers
that are constantly gurgling, spit
ting, steamlng, roaring and ex.
ploding." Then two hundreds of
petrlffed trees stand like the col
umns Of ruined temple along the
slopes of the Amethyst Mount
ans.
No fence surrounds this part
other thatthe serrated Mountains,
The only accessible passes to this
wild wonderland are on the north.
ern and western side of Montana
and Idaho, besides the wagon
road IRON Cody, on the eastern
side. Thus far only one railroad
runs to the Park limits. BY TAX
ing the Yellowstone branch of
the Northern Pacific at Living
ston, Mont, we reach the Park
station at Gardner after a fifty.
four mile ride. The railroad fol-
lows the valley of the Upper Vel
lowstone River the entire dis
tance. This valley is narrow and
really is magnificent natural en-
trance TO the wonderland which
llNs just beyond, part of it being
called, "The Gate of the Mount
aims. :" This gate is canyon al.
most a mile long and just wide
enough to admit the, road and the
river, while the mountains tower
perpendlcularly to a height of ov.
er 20O0 feet. After passing
through this canyon we enter in
to valley, for some reason nam.
ed Paradise Valley, it extends
from the mouth of the canyon
some thirty miles up the river; 1t
is from seven to twelve miles
wide. This valley has been set
tied by ranchmen for several
years and by irrigation the bar
rem desert is being converted in.
TO fertile farms.
The people in this valley seem
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