Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15
ATrip to Yellowstone Park.

My Dear ones At Honle-We ar
rived here this morning about six
o'clock, and went to bed as soon
as we could-so am just getting
awake now, land beginning to think
of how wonderful and beautiful
the things were that we saw last
week.
tits hard for any one to describe
Yellowstone Park, but I am going
to attempt it because ! would feel
that was treating you all unfairly
if | should only tell you the wealth.
er was fine, the party congenial,
and it was wonderful sight, etc.
l DIDN'T take a note, as so many OF
the party did, but the things that
impressed me most are easy to re-
member, and the hundreds and
hundreds of small hot springs and
geysers-all of which are named
grew very monotonous to me,
when seen along with the larger
and more wonderful things. So,
to take down all the names of those
small ones and send to you in a
letter would indeed be very mon
otonous, to you. ..
We left Gardiner-the northern
entrance of the Park-a little after
noon on Sunday with Shaw Il
Powell Transportation Co., which
is the only way to go. They have
nice tents and bedding, fine meals,
and it seems as if the helpers can't
do enough for the comfort of their
passengers. They give their peo-
pie all the side trips and do not
rush you through with sight seeing
as the others do. Then when 60
ing on camp like this there is no
dressing for meals as you would
have to do at the swell hotels.
Most of our party had on the short
khaki skirts, cowboy hats, high
boots-very similar to my outfit.
All the helpers are termed "sav-
ages" and the passengers "dudes".
However, there is no distinction
made in a social way between the
"savages" and "dudes".
This company can we'll accommo-
date forty people, but there were
only 27 in our party, as it is early
in the season.
1t was first a pleasant summer
day when we left Gardiner-not
hot nor too cool-but we had made
an ascent of more than three thous-
and feet when we reached Willow
Creek camp-our first camping
ground. AS we went higher, and
the wind blew colder from the
snow-covered mountains, every
one kept wrapping up until we
were a comical looking bunch.
Some of them took different ar
ticles of clothing from their suit
cases and wrapped around their
heads. was wrapped pretty we'll
but wasn't warm-not by any
means. When we reached camp
and had fine supper and a big
camp fire of pine logs, we were as
comfortable as could be.
Mammoth Hot Springs was the
first wonderful sight to be seen
The springs are quite large and
the water is such pretty peculiar
shade of blue, and boiling anc
bubbling all over, and it is SO hot
They are situated along the edge
of a perfectly flat hill, which looks
more like a hill of ashes and lim'
than any thing l can think of, anc
the water doesn't run out in one
stream, but just overflows evenly
along the entire length of the low
er edge of the spring, and thi
continual overflow has formed
beautiful formation which is callet
cleopatra Terrace. | shoult
Judge it is two hundred feet from
the edge of the spring to the foo
of the Terrace, and several time
that in length. Beautiful shade
of brown, tan, and real dark RET
are the predominating shades il
most all the Terraces. Now, jus
imagine what beautiful sight
- is to see the different colors in tn
formation, and the steam risin
Ill from the whole hillside as the he
al water flows slowly over the Ter
race. The next thing we saw wa
the ssDevils Kitchen" AS we cam
gu to this asked the guide why
1t was called the "Devil's Kitchen.
"a He said we would know as W
!, came out. The entrance is sma
ok Just large enough for one to en-
ter. We went down several fee
'e, on a ladder, and it is a large kitch
~ ~ en-, too. We were only in ther
few moments and were abor