Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-09-03
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Of Norris and at Thumb the hot water has
brought TO the surface quantities OF white min-
eral deposits which build terraces of beautlfuny
incrusted basins high up into the air, often en-
quilting trees of considerable size Over the cages
of these carved basins pours the hot water MI
croscopic plants called algae grow on the euges
and sides of these basins painting them hues VI
red and pink and blush gray, which glow Drii-
lantly At many other points lesser hot springs
occur introducing strange almost uncanny, ele-
menus into wooded and otherwise quite norman
landscapes.
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone affords
a spectacle worthy Of national park were thefe
no geysers Standing upon Inspiration PolnI
which pushes out almost to the center OF the can
Won one seems to look almost vertically down
upon the foaming Yellowstone river. To the south
a waterfall twice the height of Niagara rusneS
seemingly out of the pne-cad hills ana pours
downward to be lost again in green. FROM Ina.
point two or three miles to where you stanu anu
beneath you widens out the most glorious Kaleluo-
scope of color you will ever see in nature. Inc
steen stones dropping on either side 1000 feet and
more from the pinetopped levels above, are neon
ceiyably carved and fretted by the frost and the
erosion of the ages.
The fossil forests of the Yellowstone National
park cover an extensive area in the northern por-
tion of the park being especially abundant along
the west side of Lamar river for about 70 miles
above it's junction with the Yellowstone -One
traversing the valley of the Lamar river may see
at many places numerous upright fossil trunks ~
the faces of nearly vertical walls. These TRUNKS
are not all at particular level but occur at lrreg
ular heights; in fact a section cut down through
these 1000 feet of beds would disclose a success
sion of fossil forests. That is to say after the
first forest grew and was entombed, there was
time without volcanic outburst-a period long
enough to permit second forest to grow ABOVE
the first This in turn was covered by volcanic
material and preserved, to be followed again by
period of quiet and these more or less regular al
formations Of volcanism and forest growth contin-
ued throughout the time the beds were in process
Of formation.
The Yellowstone National park Is the largest
and most successful wild animal refuge In the
world. 1t is also, for this reason, the best and
most accessible field for nature study. Its $500
square miles of mountains and valleys remain
nearly as nature made them, for the 200 miles OF
roads and the four hotels and many camps are as
nothing in this immense wilderness. No tree mas
been cut except when absolutely necessary Tor
road or trail or camp No herds invade it's val
leys Visitors for the most part keep to the beat
en- road and the wild animals have learned in the
years that they mean them no HARM To be sure
they are not always seen by the people In the
automobile stages which whirl from point to point
daily during the season 1; but the quiet watcher on
the trails may see deer and bear and elk and an
telope to his hearts content, and he may even see
mountain sheep, moose, and bison by Journeying
on foot by horseback into their distant retreats
It is an excellent bird preserve also; 200 spe-
cies live natural, undisturbed lives. Eagles are
found among the crags.
Trout fishing in Yellowstone waters is unex-
ceIIed All three of the great watersheds abound
in trout, which often attain large size. Yellow
stone lake is the home of large trout which are
taken freely from boats, and the Yellowstone riv-
err and its tributaries yield excellent catches to the
skilIful angler.
The criticism often made by persons who have
visited granite countries that the Yellowstone re-
gion lacks the supreme grandeur Of some others
of our national parks will cease to have weight
when the magnificent Teton mountains just south
of the southern boundary are added to the park.
These mountains begin at the foot of the Pitch
stone plateau a mile or two below the southern
gateway and extend south and west. They bor-
der Jackson lake on it's west side, rising rapidly
in series of remarkably toothed and jagged peaks
until they reach sublime climax, 80 miles south
of the park, in the Grand Teton, which rises ca
thedral-like to an altitude Of 13, TAT feet.
These amazing mountains are. from their ma
ture, a component part of the Yellowstone Ma
tional park, whose gamut Of majestic scenery they
complete and doubt would have been included
within its original boundaries had their supreme
magnfcence been then appreciated. Already Vel
lowstone visitors have claimed it. and automobile
stages run to Moran and back on regular schedule.
In time, no doubt, part of 1t will be added formally
to the park territory.