The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-06-15

most vertically down upon the roam
ing Yellowstone. To the south wa
terfall twice the height of Niagara
PUSHES seemingly out of the pine-ciao
hills and pours downward to be lost
again in green.
| From that point two or three mics
u where you stand and beneath you
widens out the most glorious kaleido-
SCOPE of color you will ever see In
nature, The steep slopes dropping on
either side thousand feet and more
from the pine topped levels above are
inconceiyably carved and fretted by
the frost and the erosion of the ages.
Sometimes they lie in straight lines at
easy angles, from which jut high
rocky prominences. Sometimes they
lie in huge hollows carved from the
side walls. Here and there jagged
rocky needles rise perpendicularly for
hundreds of feet like groups of gothic
spires.
And the whole Is colored as broken
ly and wildly as the field OF q kalei-
doscope. The whole is streaked and
spotted and stratified in every shade
from the deepest orange to the faint
est lemon, from deep crimson through
all the brick shades to the softest pink,
from black through all the grays and
pearls to glistening. white. The greens
are furnished by the dark pines above,
the lighter shades of growth caught
| here and there in soft masses on the
gentler slopes and the foaming green
of the plunging river so far below. The
blues ever changing, are found in the
dome of the sky overhead.
1t is a spectacle which one looks up
on in silence.
There are several spots from which
| fine partial views may be had but no
person can say he has seen the can
yon who has not stood upon lnspira-
ton Point. Remember this when you
visit the Yellowstone.
Wild Animals Living Naturally.
Another interesting feature of the
Yellowstone National park is it's wild
animal life. 1t is the largest and most
successful preserve in the world. It's
5000 square miles of mountains and
valleys remain nearly as nature made
them, for the two hundred miles OF
roads and the seven hotels and many
camps are as nothing in this immense
wilderness. No tree has been cut ex-
cept when absolutely necessary for
road or trail or camp. No herds in
wade its valleys No rifle has been
fired except by an occasional poacher
along the border since the park was
established in 1872.
Visitors for the most part keep to
the beaten road, and the wild animals
have learned in the years that they
mean them no harm. To be sure they
are seldom seen by the people filling
the long trains of stages which travel
from point to point daily during the
season; but the quiet watcher on the
trails may see deer and bear and elk
and antelope to his hearts content,
and he may even see mountain sheep,
moose and bison by journeying on
foot or by horseback into their dis
tant retreats. In the fall and spring
when the crowds are absent, wild deer
gather in great numbers at the hotel
clearings to crop the grass, and the
officers children feed them flowers.
One of the diversions at the road
builders camps in the wilderness is
cultivating the acquaintance of the
the war department at Washington of
men feeding sugar to bear cubs while
mother bear looks idly on at a dis
lance
Thus one of the most interesting
lessons from the Yellowstone is that
wild animals are fearful and danger
Gus only when men treat them as
game or as enemies,
Bears, Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope and
Even the big grizzlies which are
generally believed to be ferocious are
proved by our national parks expert
ence to be entirely inoffensive If not
attacked Even when attacked they
make every possible effort to escape,
and only turn upon men when finally
driven into some place from which
they can not get away. Then only
are they dangerous, and then they are
dangerous indeed The grizzy bear
by the way, is one of the shyest of
wild animals, and may be seen only
with difficulty. 1t lives principally on
roots, berries, nuts and honey-when
honey may be had. 1t can not climb
trees like the brown bears. Its lit
tie ones are born in caves where bears
hibernate through the winters and
are little larger than squirrels when
they first come into the world
The brown, cinnamon and black
bears, which, by the way, are the
same species only differently colored
the blondes and brunettes, so to
speak, of the bear family--are quite
different. They are playful compare
lively fearless, sometimes even friend
Ily, They are greedy fellows, and steal
camp supplies whenever they can. The
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