Warren sheaf., 1920-09-01
An Account Of Trip to
Yellowstone National Park
By the Editor Of the Sheaf.

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surroundings. No dining room built by
man can equal in elegance and richness
of; f;0rnamentation Gods great outdoors
After supper we all took stroll up to
the large and brilliantly lighted Nam
moth Springs hotel, a short distance
away. Here also are located the super
intendent's Office, a fort, United States
commissioners Office, post Office, gasO-
line stations and stores where supplies,
cllrios. etc., may be purchased. We be-
held the white cliffs and terraces of
the Mammoth Hot Springs, but had to
leave for the following day more ex-
tended examination of this famous at.
traction. We returned to camp, the
women rolled into their tent and the
men folks into theirs. Some say that
some of us snored during the night
but that can't be, so. 1t must have
been the bears outside looking for
chunk of bacon. They are also greedy
for sugar, honey and other sweets, we
were told. The mems tent was erected
on sloping ground, and when some of
us awoke during the night we found
that we had slid from one end of the
tent to the other. After that exper-
ience we always picked out level spot
for the tents, but such spots are not
always easy to find in this mountainous
region.
{, On Wednesday morning, Aug. 4, we
arose bright and early and after a de-
1icious breakfast, which, if we remem-
ber rightly, consisted of pancakes and
genuine maple syrup, slice of juicy
bacon, bread butter and jam and coffee,
we were all ready for what the new
day might bring forth in the way Of
new delights and experiences. This
was to be our first full day in the park,
a day of days, such as one sees but
few of in life time, and our hearts
thrObbed with eager expectancy. Again
we view with reverence and admiration
the chalky white terraces, interspersed
with bubbling springs where the water
was bubbling hot. No sculptor can
rival the Great Architect of the Unit
verse in the bold use of chisel and
mallet as visaged in the rugged beauty
of the scenery here as well as else
where in the park. Jupiter Terrace,
Hymen Terrace, Cleopatra Terrace,
Pulpit Terrace and Minerva Terrace
are names given to some Of these for
nations. How have they. come to be?
We do not know Scientists tell us that
the hot water in passing thru str9to
of lime stone becomes impregnated with
carbonate of lime which substance is
deposited around the opening of the
springs, building up in time cones and
terraces. Algous growths which thrive
in the hot water impart various tints
of color to the deposits. Volcanic or
internal heat is supposed to heat the
water as it sinks down to the hot place
through crevices in the earth's crust.
Well, we will not question the theories
of the scientists, but will only say that
in the presence of these wonders, we
stand dumb-founded and feel our own
littleness. The Devils Kitchen is the
interior of AN extinct hot spring which
may he descended by ladders at the
side, but our party had no desire to see
50 terrifying a place. -. -
Y Leaving the Mammoth Hot Springs
we proceed to make tour of the park
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the Norris geyser basin, 20 miles dis
tant. The road ascends the mountain
by such easy grades that gain of a
thousand feet in elevation in three
miles is scarcely noticed: BY setting
our speedometer at zero when we left
the Mammoth Hot Springs and keeping
before .us the excellent guide book and
map. in which names and descriptions
of places Of interest and distances are
given, we could tell exactly what we
saw without other information. At
every turn and twist of the road the
scene changed and it is impossible in a
short newspaper article to- describe the
many points sof interest. The Hoodoos
are a mass of huge limestone rocks
promiscuOusly thrown together, prob
ably by some violent cataclysm of ma
ture and at the Silver Gate the road
passes between huge blocks of lime
stone The Golden Gate is rugged
pass between elevations covered with
yellow moss. We stopped to quench
our thirst at Apollinaris Spring and at
Iron Spring with medicinal water man
ufactured in natures own laboratory,
and liked both brands. Obsidian Cliff
is a rocky formation Of volcanic glass,
as black as coal, and quite opaque and
very hard. The road has been con-
structed thru this formation and is
probably the, only glass road f.s in the
world. The Indians, it is said, used to
60 there for arrow heads and the place
was perhaps as sacred to them as was
the far-famed pipestone quarry in Min
nesota, The road passed by Roaring
Mountain, ' the. side Of which had been
denuded Of trees BY the internal heat.
Steam issued from several places on
| the mountain and its sides and roar
ing sound plainly reached our ears, in
dicating that gigantic, forces were at
work within. We were surely seeing
strange sights. 7
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