The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-03-19


showing so hard, it Numbered and
rained hailed.and cleared
loft / went out and picked wild straw
berries. This all happened in about |
two hours time. My! I bet you'll |
lsay that's q whopper,b but it's the truth, |
and to show you how conscientious
| am about telling the truth, ! found
lust one little runty strawberry, and
II hunted for quite q while for another
lone so could say strawberries. in
lstead OF just strawberry. Both of them
together would be about the size of
Ia bean That night | got cold, and !
Thought | had plenty over me. too.
Ii had a double wagon sheet over me,
besides four heavy blankets and that
much under me. 1t froze ice one-half
Inch thick. The next day we drove
Ito the Mammoth Hot Springs, the
Igreatest sight in the Park to my nor
ltion. Imagine a hill 200 feet high
with gradual slope and somewhat
1.-THE appearance OF stalr-steps, and
large hot springs on the top and con-
Itinually overlooking, then again, i'm
lagine taking a comb, Just common
lhair comb, and starting at the top of
the hill and pulling it to the bottom,
land every tooth in the comb leaving a
creyice for the water to trickle down,
and the water causing geyserite for
. Emation of all colors, some of 1t being
, lpure white, right below will be a
] lbrownish color, orange, and BLUSH
Tint, then imagine the sun shining on
/ this side Of the hill against all these
/ lcolors. Oh, it's just simply beyond
, description. could hardly get
Through looking at it.
: The trip from the Springs out
: Through the Golden Gate is beautiful
ride, and the mountain scenery is fas.
cinating.
Uncle Sam has built a bridge right
on the side of cliff. You can look
2 lup a little way to the Rustic Falls,
j (which are about 40 feet high, and the
t lscenery is quite picturesque. Then
on the way back, along on the side OF
/ the road is the Frying Pan. 1t is Just
/ a mud hole at the side of the road,
S looks like some animal had tracked
4 Through it and the water in the tracks
: in a constant agitation. just like you
e would put lot of lard in hot skillet,
J. it bubbles and sizzles SO. There is
y no use to stop and look at these las you
z would see no more If you looked for
p la week, but it will leave an impress
r forget, anyway.
Now the Grand Canon might well
j. be called one of the seven wonders
= of the world. 1t is about four miles
long with an average depth of 1900
L ieet. In the morning we all went to
u the foot of the falls, going down ia
S cobs Ladder. / don't know who ia
" cob is, but anyway he built a pretty
y frail affair, but it winds around down
p a beautiful moss covered gulch and
E. while the trip is hardly safe on ac
n count of the rickety steps, it is wei
e worth the trouble. When we reached
the bottom of the Falls and looked uI
300 feet, only then can you imagine
& the immensely of the scene, the river
above being over 250 feet wide, and
p Just before it goes over the Falls, il
narrows down to IA feet. That causes
II heavy mist in the Canon and the
e sun causes perfect rainbow. Then
3 we went down the Canon and | smell
ed that old familiar smell of the Park
u and | knew there was hot spring mo-
IL far away. With very little difficult.
.s we found it. Right close by the edge
y of the water, coming out of a sole
'e rock, was a stream OF water about thu
e size of lead pencil. The rock wa!
d only about two feet square, and look
a, ed as if it had rolled down there from
80 the side of the mountain or canon
the water overlooking the side of thu
id rock, causing geyserite formation
it the same as the Mammoth Ho
e Springs.
ID Another thing quite peculiar, thu
-e water in the river is cold, almost ic'
II cold. You go down to the edge o
the water and stick your fingers down
L, in the water and work them dow
IS into the sand to the second joint, th'
al water being so cold, and the sand 81
or not you cannot hold your fingers il
i Well next we went to Inspiration
~ Point. That's about four miles down
1t the Canon from the Falls. There il
III large point that reaches out owe
lg the Canon. They built platform
ut and renee over there, so you can lool
II, straight up the Canon for four mile
p. and see the Falls, the average dept
I'd being 1900 feet, and you see all thu
ly different colored rock and sand imag
m Unable. 1t is grand sight and wei
named inspiration Point as every
n. one getting a glimpse of this scener.
e is inspired. 1t is amusing to lister
# to the remarks of different people Oh
,s first seeing the Canon from this point
20 The women folks would say: "Oh
m isn't it exquisite? Oh! isn't it jus
is simply immense? Oh! how gorgeous,
a ETC., etc. ! know her tongue mus
in have been loose at both ends. | i'm
NJ agine she was one of those peopl
L who talk so much you answer by say
ID ing yes and no, and at the same tim
n do not know what she is TALKING
L about. She made remark that cer