The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-07-27
GEO. W. BETHEL WRITES
FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK

IN lelter just TecelNeu from Lui
Geo. W. Bethel who has with his fam
lily been touring Yellowstone Park,
he says the following that will be
of interest to Record readers.
There are three entrances to this
park, the eastern at Cody. the west
ern at Yellowstone, and the northern
at Gardiner.
We entered by Gardiner and took
the five and half days complete
trip This is made in eleven passen-
ger modern mountain coaches,
drawn by four spanking well kept and
groomed horses, expert drivers hand
ling the whip. The road, which is
made and graded, covers a distance
of one hundred and fifty five miles.
Our first stop was at the Nam
moth Hot Springs. Here numerous
mineralized water. Fort Yellowstone
is located here also, and from this
point as headquarters. is distributed
a company of mounted u. S. soldiers
so enforce the rules and regulations
which afG quite rigid, governing auto
mobiles touring the park
One of these rules requires that
after 1880 a. m. and until 8 p. M. they
travel on regular schedule. They
must not leave. say until 3:15 p. m
and mus arrive, at certain point at
4:30. They must not get in ahead o:
time, nor can they be more than 30
minutes late. A violation of the
rules means a fine. and with gas at
fifty cents per gallon the auto tour
lists pick very few roses by the way
side
The next stop of interest is Norris
Basin. This is a boiling. bubbline
mass of hot mineral waters, the odors
of which are not pleasant. The up
per Geyser basin comes next Here
within small radius are located
over forty-ive playing geysers. There
are small ones and large ones, some
play continuously, others at regular
intervals. The latter go of with
rushing noise and throw water and
steam as high as $50 feet.
Lake Yellowstone is a beautiful
body of water about twenty miles in
length, and is next to the largest lake
found at this altitude. over 5000
feet The road from the Lake to
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone fol-
lows the beautiful Yellowstone river
all the way, and the Grand Canyon
certainly is a gorgeously beautiful
sight. Kipling wrote of this canyon
as follows:
"All that can say is that without
warning or preparation l look into a
gulf LOO feet deep. with eagles and
fish hawks circl;ng far below. And
the sides of that gulf were one wild
welter of color-crimson, emerald,
cobalt, ochre, amber. honey splash
ed with port wine, snow-white. ver-
million. lemon and silver grey in wide
washes. The sides did not fall sheer.
but were craven by time and water
and air into monstrous heads of
kings, dead chiefs-men and women
of the old time. So far below that
no sound OF its strife could reach us.
the Yellowstone River ran, a finger
wide strip of jade green.
"The sunlight took those wondrous
walls and gave fresh hues to those
that Nature had already laid there.
Evening crept through the pines
that shadowed US. but .he full glory
of the day famed in that Canyon as
we went out very cautiously to jut-
ting piece of rock-blood-red or pink
it was-that overhung the deepest
deeps of ALL
am reliably informed that over
fifty thousand people visited the
Park last season., which would indi-
cate. think. quite forcibly. that Vel
lowstone National Park is one of the
popular play grounds OF America. and
to us was one continuous round of
pleasure and trip long to be remem-
bered.