Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-07
REV. J. H. NEWLAND
 ADDRESSES BOY SCOUTS.
Troop Hears Interesting Talk on
 Yellowstone Park.


 given by Rev. J. H. Newland. The
 talk was illustrated with stereopticon | views of the park. The views were
 exceptionally clear and brought out | the grandeur of the scenes in almost
 realistic likeness. The stereopticon
 machine was in charge of Scouts Ives
 and Walden. Rev Mir. Newland said
 in part:
 The Yellowstone Park lies in the
 northwestern part of Wyoming over
 tapping slightly into both Idaho and
 Montana It does not look very large | on the map but 1t is in fact larger
 than all the other national parks rol;- l ed into one. It Is 54 -Siles across from | east 10 west and 62 miles from north
 game and forest reserve has an area | of over 11,000 square miles. This is | more than the combined area of Con | necticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island | few of the great number of interesting points, but we shall see why if Is
 famed the world around and visited by
 travellers from every land.
 name of Jim Bridger whose picture we have here. who probably discovered | this region. He was for 70 years a
 scout traversing the land from Kan Canadian line to Chihua;Iua in old | Merico. He saw the Great Salt Lake | as early as 1924 and it is certain ne | found this country as early IS .29c | Later when he was an old man the government paid him BIO da- - sr+ | as chief scout in the Indian campaign, | later he was a chief scout under Gen | eral Dodge at the time Of the con. | struction of the Union Pacific railroad. | He was 9. great story teller and his stories still form part of the lore Of that land though he is gone from the | trail of the scout for ever.
 The man to whom the world is most | indebted for its first knowledge of the 1 park is Nathaniel P. Langford. He was the guiding spirit of an expedition Through the park in 1870 and later
 at his own expense he went to the na- t1ons capitol and led in efforts to the enactment of law setting the whole
 region aside as a national park n | 1872 President Grant signed the bill but Langford was the father of the movement. He was then appointed superintendent of the pary, and for
 i've years he toiled without a cents salary or pay. not even receiving his expenses, protecting the peoples new ly acquired and valuable treasure from the local vandals and from the great companies that were organized to ex-
 ploit it's valuable features Langford
 is the father of the national park
 An especial feature of the pictures shown to the boys was the coloring
 which reproduced the wonderful tints of the original
 MT. Newland said in the section Of inc park called Hot Springs there are fifty hot springs in TO acres There is travertine accumulation of d thousand feet displayed in Beautiful tinted terraces of incrustation. oSme of the springs deposit lime, some silica and some sulphur, and some all three of the ingredients. Through unnum- bered years this deposit has been
 building up the terraces, over the 200 acres where it occurs. There once was like formation in the North Is- land of New Zealand and it was the wonder of the world. Froude.- the his torian, describes it's pink and white terraces in a way that might easily be applied to the Yellowstone terraces
 Some years ago the terraces of New Zealand were destroyed by an earth quake. leaving the American terraces without a counterpart in the world. The beauty of this unique forma ton is very wonderful. The hot water which you see in the overhanging bowls. rising to it's very lip, has come up through stratum of 2,o00 feet of lime rock
 It is an interesting, fact to note that each of these terraces accomplishes it's own destruction after awhile. com mits suicide as it were. As they build | higher and higher there comes a time | when the top of the terrace is raised to a point above the source of the wa ter supply or is raised so high that ] the subterrareous pressure cannot lift l the water As result the water for sakeS the spring and seeks a new sur face outlet there 10 commence anew l the construction of another terrace l Take for an example Juniper Terrace | considered by many to be the most l beautiful single piece of nature craft | in the park. It towers eighty feet above the roadway, and on top has two hot springs of indescriba ble blue which has only been matched by the l color of burning sulphur.
 In the park are two herds Of Buff | falo, one that is enclosed in a place are of these. The other herd is still wild, having never been in restraint | The wild herd had 25 or 90 in mum oers while the herd that is in restraint | nine calves were born. This shows ! you how carefully the government | keeps track of these animals that are | in danger of becoming extinct.
 The Upper Geyser Basin is the very heart of this wonderland It is about i four square miles in area and is fairly ! studded with seyser craters. hot poois, | steam vene~ fumaroles so that which | ever way you look you see clouds of l steam silhouetted against the sombre i background of the forest clad slopes i of the mountains. Only in Iceland and | in New Zealand are there to be found l much smaller, less numerous and less ! interesting
 Here followed pictures of the Morn i ing Glory pool. Riverside Geyser in | action, Grotto Geyser, The Giant Gey- 1 sey, which stands about ten feet high | and which plays, or erupts irregularly. the eruption sometimes lasting an ! hour and half Long ago il was so i broken off IS to look like the stump of ! a broken Sycamore tree. It sometimes i spouts to an elevation of 25o feet.
 The crater of Old Faithful was i shown in this picture. Ii is estimated l that 5000 years have been consumed l in building this crater. Once in 53 { minutes the waters leap from the lips ! of this crater in a great boiling jet to : the heighth of 150 feet to fall back in | a blistering shower. Each eruption l it sends up 1,5O3, 900 gallons Of water ! or 31,o0o,O0o og 6oilins water a day. ,
 A diagram showing the way these geysers were formed under the earth { was an interesting part Of the lecture
 The lecturer then turned to the can . yons of the Yellowstone river and to i others of the marvellous forms tions or . the place, showing some of the wild i animals in their habitat. ending the 1