The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-04

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with the sun upon your back, the
shadow is surrounded by beautiful
rainbow, surrounding only the head,
gives that halo 50 many painters
have vainly tried to give in paintings
of the Savior. Standing near the
| fountain, the sun shining. the scene
is grandly magnificent; each of the
broken atoms of water shining like
so many brilliants, while myriads of
rainbows are dancing attendance No
wonder, then. that our usually staid
and sober companions threw up their
hats and shouted with ecstacy at the
sight.
The Helena, Mont, Herald, tells of
of the explorers trip as follows: The
party left Bozeman August %, reach
ing the Yellowstone on the gath and
Travelled up that river until the 9th.
when they reached the Lower FAN
creek, where they remained in camp
one day The lower fall is beau
tiful cascade 115 feet high. The
Indian Trail passes the Yellowstone
at this point to the east side, but
the party kept on the west side of the
river. near the base Of Mount Wash
burne. a peak 1880 feet high, pass
ing the He'll Broth springs on the
Goth, and on the 3Oth camping OPP
posite the Great Falls of the Yellow
stone on Cascade creek. Mr.. Lang
! ford suspended weight perpendicu-
| iarly from the rock adjoining the
falls. 491 feet to the bottom of the
canyon, and. deducting from this
the distance from the top of the rock
to the surface of the water above the
! fall, found it to be $50 feet in height.
! The upper fall, half a mile further
| up the stream is IFS feet high. A
| day and half more brought the
party to the Hot Sulphur and Mud
springs, sixty to seventy-five in num-
Der, of diameters varying from two
to seventy feet. From scores of era
! ters on the side of the mountain adj
joining these springs issue hot va
pors, the edges of the craters being
incrusted with pure sulphur. Six
! miles further on is the first geyser,
| which throws a volume of water
twenty feet in diameter to height
of thirty to thirty-five feet. Near by
is volcano which throws up mud
from the bottom of it's crater to a
height of thirty feet or more. with
explosions resembling distant dis
charges of cannon, the pulsations oc-
curing at intervals of five second
and the explosions shaking the
ground for a long distance This
volcano has evidently been in exis-
tence but a short time-a few
months as the newly grown grass
was covered for nearly two hundred
feet with the clayey mud that was
thrown ont at the first outbreak
The crater of the volcano is about
thirty feet in diameter at it's mouth.
At this point the party forded the
river and travelled along the east
bank twelve miles to the Yellowstone
lake, a beautiful sheet of water of
very Irregular shape, of an average
length of twenty-five miles and q
width of fifteen miles. An accurate
map of the lake was made from OBJ
servations taken by Messrs. Lang
ford and Hauser from the tops of
three mountains, on different sides
OF the lake. One of these mountains
was 1920 feet high, as measured
by the barometer. The Journey
around the lake was rendered very
difficult by the fallen timber, the
party hating at night not more than
six or seven miles from their morn
ing camp.
From the lake the Marty struck off
to the Fire Hole river. on which, In
the Geyster basin, they found a most
remarkable collection OF springs and
fcraters. In the basin which extends
about two miles down the river, and
is mile in width, are between 700
and 800 springs and craters of all di-
ameters from one to 200 feet. Here
was found the twelve immense gey-
sers described above. Messrs. Lang
ford and Hauser carefully measured
them by triangulatfon.
The only serious accident occur
ring to mar the trip was the loss of
Mr.. Everts, who was either lost in
the mountains or killed by the In
dams. A search lasting eight days
was made for the missing man, but
no trace OF him could be found. Mes
srs. Trumbull and Smith searched
the shores of the lake, while general
Washburn and Mr.. Langford Travelled
south OF the headwaters of the Snake
river. While in camp on the lake