The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-07-28
DR.. STOKES WRITES
OF YELLOWSTONE PARK
Sends An Interesting Account On The
Beautiful Scenery To BE Found
Out In Colorado. The JOY OF
Travel Is \ Wonderful Invest
ment, Bringing Better Returns
Than Amy Other Outlay.
Estes Park, Col,

Estes Park, Col,
July 20. 1920.
Editor The Daily Banner
Have Just made the tip to the
Yellowstone Park, across Wyoming,
a thousand miles of sage-brush, sand
and mountains. Leaving Cody, the
eastern entrance to the Park, you
pass through the Shoshone canyon,
ten miles long and in many places
with PERCEPTIONS walls thousand or
so feet high. In it is the Shoshone
dam, three hundred and seventy-tive
feet high, and only two hundred feet
wide, about the proporu 0nS OF
brick in Il narrow gorge. The road
is mere shelf, only wide enough
for one machine: you pass at turn
outs and in some places hundreds of
feet down to a stopping place. If
you go off you keep your eye on the
road and scrape the inner side of the
road.
Just above this the valley widens
out and different type of rock
scenery comes into view, soft rock
that weathers into fantastic shapes
of pinnacles and spires.
On getting into the Park itself
you come to a number of stream
vents and mud springs, all boiling
and sputtering like a pot of mush
and smelling strongly of sulphur.
Now comes one of the big shows,
Mammoth Hot Springs, where they
have built up hundreds of acres
several hundred feet high with the
deposits of mineral matter with
which the water so highly charged
that as soon as it cools it deposits it
on the edges of the pools, one place
gets so high it checks the flow there,
then it runs off at another, SO that
it forms basins and terraces that are
colored by the salts and low form
of vegetable life in delicate shades
of yellow, pink and green-these Of
ten cover half an acre or so-the
water in the quiet deeper pools is
of the beautiful turquoise blue.
The next exhibit is the geysers-
Old Faith is the type-playing
fountain of boiling water and steam
a hundred and fifty feet into the air
every twenty minutes and the
stream is from four to five feet in
diameter-some fire extinguisher.
One Of the larger one, The Castle,
played while l was there but, I'M
fortunately for me l was mile off,
but it was some show even at that
distance. After the water was
over steam roared, out the pipe for
an hour or so loud enough to be
plainly audible at that distance.
Near the geyesers are many quiet
pools with the beautiful blue water
and delicate colored margins; they
all come out of a hillside Or are on
top of an elevation; in many places
they have partly buried tree in the
deposits. At Roaring Mountain a
new location. the mountain side is
covered with dead trees.
Next we come to a group of vari-
Gus colored mud springs, called
Paint Pots" pink and gray and
white. all hot, and for contrast, in
several places the road seems to be
between banks of snow-in July
and down in the deep valley are deep
dEifts-the mountain tops are white
with it.
The Yellowstones Canyon passes
description, with it's gorgeous tint
ed walls of red and yellow rocks and
sand-they are colors, not tints, and
far below the green and white of the
foaming rushing river where it
comes over the rim for a drop
twice as high as Niagara+it is
beautiful beyond description and
there are miles and miles of this can
yon with roads on both banks.