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brought to the surface quantities of white min
eral deposits which build terraces of beautifully
ncrusted basins high up into the air, often en-
quilting trees of considerable size. Over the edges
of these carved basins pours the hot water MI
croscopic plants called algae grow on the edges
and sides of these basins painting them hues OF
red and pink and blush gray, which glow bril-
lianty. At many other points lesser hot springs
occur, introducing strange, almost uncanny, eie
menrs into wooded and otherwise quite normal
landscapes.
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone affords
a spectacle worthy of a national park were there
no geysers. Standing upon Inspiration Point
which pushes out almost to the center OF the can
yon, one seems to look almost vertically down
upon the foaming Yellowstone river To the south
a waterfall twice the height of Niagara rushes
seemingly out of the pine-clad. hills and pours
downward to be lost again in green. From that
point two or three miles to where you stand and
beneath you widens out the most glorious kaieldo'
scope of color you will ever see in nature The
steep slopes dropping either side looo feet ana
more from the pne-topped levels above are incon-
ceivably 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-
ton of the park, being especially abundant along
the west side of Lamar river for about ~ miles
above it's junction with the Yellowstone. One
traversng the valley of the Lamar river may see
at many places numerous upright fossil trunks in
the faces of nearly vertical walls. These trunks
not all at particular level but occur at irreg
ular heights; in fact a section cut down through
these 1000 feet of beds would disckse a success
sion of fossil forests. That is to say after the
first forest grew and entombed, there was
time without volcanic outburst-a period long
enough to permit a second forest to grow above
the first. This in turn covered by volcanic
material and preserved to be followed again by
period of quiet and these more or less regular al
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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 has
been cut except when absolutely necessary for
road or trail camp. No herds invade its val
leys. Visitors for the most part keep to the beat
en- road, and the wild animals have learned in the
years that theE 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; 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 or by horseback into their distant retreats
1t is an eXcellent DlrQ preserve alSo, AVo Sps-
cies live natural, undsturbed lives. Eagles are
found among the crags.
Trout fishing in Yellowstone waters is unex
celled All three of the great watersheds abound
in trout, which often attain large size. Yellow
stone lake esis the home of large trout, which are
taken freely from boats, and the Yellowstone riv
er and its tributaries yield excellent catches to the
skilful angler.
The criticism often made by persons who have
visited granite countries that the Yellowstone re
gion lacks the supreme grandeur of some other:
of our national parks will cease to have weigh
when the magnificent Teton mountains just soutf
of the southern boundary added to the park
These mountains begin at the foot of the Pitch
stone plateau a mile two below the southern
gateway and extend south and west. They bor
der jackson lake on its west side rising rapid,
in series of remarkably toothed and jagged peak
until they reach sublime climax, 80 miles soutl
of the park, in the Grand Teton, which rises ca
thedrallke to altitude of 13, TAI feet
These amazing mountains are from their ns
ture component part of the Yellowstone M
tonal park, whose gamut of majestic scenery the
complete and no doubt would have been include
within its original boundaries had their suprem
magnifcence been then appreciated. Already Ye
lOwstone visitors have claimed it, and automobil
stages to Moran and back on regular schedule
In time no doubt part of it will be added formal
to the park territory.