Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-09-08

sOEIHe jet OI water .eJecCeQ varies 1fOM
asfew feet to $50 feet. The geysers
have been given names suggestion by
nlesformatiOn Of their craters or by
OTHER peculiarities. Here are the
names Of some geysers that we saw :
Riverside, Grotto, Rocket, Giant,
.Siantess, Daisy, Castle, Beehive, OBJ
Lion and Lioness. There are
many others The Giant Geyser erupts
Eat intervals Of 6 to IA days and throws
up a column of water $50 feet high
for a whole hour. We would have had
|. to stay at this point several days in
order to see this phenomena, which we
could not do Many tourists wait to
see the grand display, and if it occurs
at night they are reused from their
sleep so as not to miss it. But the
geyser most loved by tourists is after
all, Old Faithful Many other geysers
have more powerful eruptions, and
more artistically formed craters, but
Gid Faithful has won favor by its re-
markable regularity Every seventy
minutes, with rarely variation Of five
minutes, night and day., summer and
winter, year after year, for thousands
OF years perhaps, it has thrown up a
stream of water and steam 120 to 170
feets in the air, the duration of each
eruption being about four minutes.
.Thexquantity of water thrown out with
each eruption is estimated at 100000
gallons, from which may be inferred
that the source of the supply must be
enormous. d "a 81
We arrived at Old Faithful about
five o'clock in the afternoon on our first
days tour of the park, having travelled
a distance of So miles from Mammoth
Hot Springs and seen the most won
derful sights in our lives. We pitched
our tents under spruce and pine trees
in the tourists camping grounds. only
few hundred feetsfrom Old Faithful
.herselfsand in plain view of that grand
sfounta We were all hungry after
the aay's ride and the writer soon had
good fire going, while the good ladies,
God bless them, lost no time in putting
on the coffee pot and frying pans from
which the aroma of fried potatoes and
bacon soon mingled with the odor of
the pine woods. Soon after our ar
rival, Old Faithful welcomed us with
a grand display of Natures waterworks
We surely were delighted to see the
.gloriously beautiful spectacle, which, if
the park contained nothing else, would
be worth a trip across the continent to
feast ones eyes upon. A minute or
two before the eruption there is violent
agitation Of the water In the funnel and
several seemingly vain efforts to eject
the bubblingl and boiling water, then
tn Or. tn roo SIM orc :, {,
if training for the fray and then the
great final explosion which with q roar
and kissing sound hurls a column Of
water and steam from 125 to 40 feet
in the air, completely emptying the
funnel. In the evening flash light
was turned on the geyser when it play
ed and the scene was overwhelmingly
beautiful and at night when we awOke
we listened to the sp-sp-bim- bam-fsch
OF the fountain. Next morning after
breakfast Mr.. Bystrom and the writer
fished for trout I'm the near by river,
but neer one did we catch. There
were large number of campers in the
tourists camping grounds, many Of
whom had come in their autos from
widely separated and distant states to
see the wonders Of the park. There
were cars In the park from every state
in the union, seemingly, even from far
away Honolulu. We became acquainted
with few Of our fellow tourists and
the girls Of our party quite friendly
and chummy with some Of them. They
are all very nice people. We must not
forget to mention that before retiring
at the Old Faithful camp we took pre-
cautions for saving the chunks Of bacon
that we carried with us, from bears
that prowl about the camp at night.
The paper bag which contained the
bacon was tied to the tip Of slender
branch Of q tree where the bear could
not reach it without danger of falling.
But no bears were seen around that
night. AZ 5.s5 s
We broke camp during the forenoon
OF the second day In the park and re-
stunned orr tour with Lake Camp on the
shore Of Yellowstone Lake as our next
objective. But we reserve the descrip-
ton OF that days sight seeing until
next week. John p. Mattson.