Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-06
Glimpse of Beauties
Of Yellowstone Park
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falling back into the pool. 1t neye:
varied in either time or volume, win
ter or summer.
Near it a baby geyser was spoutins
about every two seconds, emitting {
fratl little stream about the diameteI
of a lead pencil, having only force
enough to shoot the water out a cou
pie of feet like this: s-st-s-st-s-st
Gonder we say a Danger sign
The crust IN which we Walked for
nation Of deposit or sediment from
the water which occasionally flooded
the surface-Was so hot as to compe
us to keep moving to prevent the
~oyerheating OF our soles.
We had taken no guide with US
for the morning stroll. Our curiosity
prompted us to investigate. The sigr
was posted near a hole in the ground
as We discovered, and twenty feet OF
so below the troubled waters were
writing and bubbling, as though
making faces at us.
The Hole Gets Busy.
Presently we went away, and while
Investigating other attractions we
heard a Kissing and a roaring behind
us. That little hole in the ground
where the danger sign was posted
was busy. A column of water, about
two feet in diameter, was shooting
into the air more than 200 feet anG
falling away in spray and showers
and tankfuls. The sun, but recently
risen, oyer in the east, was sending
its illuminating rays tb meet the
belching volume of ascending and de
scending water, and interviewer
throughout were millions of rainbows
coming and going like phantoms from
the unknown.
The "hole" was one of the noted
geysers of the immediate region, and
the danger sign was posted there be
cause it was intermittent in it's spout
ing-possibly quiet for days, and
then suddenly waking up and below
ing like an enraged bull, hurting tops
and tons Of water high into the air
If, perchance, some luckless and
needless chap, like ourself, were
caught near it ait the beginning OF
it's spouting, the wind, if a breeze
we're stirring, might throw boiling
water upon him before he could get
away. No one, so far as we know
had ever been killed thereby, but in
the earlier days some had been ser
iously sealded.
But a Fleeing Glimpse.
We have given but a glimpse
mere 1eeting glimpse-of the many
interesting, scenes to be found in the
park. 1t would require a column
merely to name all the geysers, and
page to tell all about their peculiar
tiles.
There are apertures through which
steam rushes with all the force and
| noise OF a hundred railroad locomo
tiyes blowing off, at the same time;
| waterfalls and cascades; boiling
springs that give OF SO much steam
and heat Is to endanger the safety
of a human being standing within
twenty feet on the leeward; extinct
geysers into some of which one may
crawl; vast honeycomb deposits which
have taken centuries to build up-de
posits from the overfiowing waters O
hot springs and which resemble the
work Of millions upon millions Of
honey bees; smoking mountains anC
mud lakes; mountains of glass ant
mountains Of granite; scraggly shrub
berry and majestic pines; beautiful
valleys and snowcapped hills, etc,
When We went through the parl
automobiles were forbidden to trave
therein. private company had /,
monopoly of the transportation. /
one didn't choose to- pay a dollar al
hosr or 1--WE dollars a day for the us,
OF a broncho, he either walked O
paid the price charged for conyeyin,
him In a two or . four-horse vehicle
Now, however, ono may secure pei
mission to drive through with his au
tomobile or his team Of horses, and b
privileged, under certain restrie
tiDns. to camp BY the wayside.
sse America First
We have often wondered why 4
many ~plutocrats amd sa0bbish ariste
cfats spend 70 much time and mean
n sightseeing ii EUROPE and else
where and never ~coAdescend to Sc
what their own country Offers III Iii
line OF scenery and climate. Man,
Of them who have crossed the ocean
Dozen times have never set FOOT :,
seiI vet of the Mtsaissippi river.
~ eIsndea1. soulstirrine and awe
fHspizing seensry, America hunsul