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Summer temperature Of so to so de.
9rees. one sees the tremendous heat OF
the interior of the earth given vent In
+ boiling springs of varied colorS. in great
columns of water and steam sent with
explosive force high into the air. Old
Faithful Geyser, for instance, shoots Q
Kreat column of boiling water 120 to 17O
feet into the air nearly every hour
The Giant GeySer, in its irregular erup-
ton, sends a column of steaming water
80 feet in the air for an hour at
Sme.
In this great park is fine fishing, and
Che wild life of the forests primeval
can be Seen along the roads ard trails
--bn wltnOut danger. The visitor sees
bears and deer and buffalo at close
range and In their natural state.
II mountain climbing Is wanted, the
Traveller with the aid Of a guide, can
scale Electric Peak, 11,155 feet high.
This Is difYicult and even dangerous
ascent For those who want the sense
Of exaltation felt at mountain tops. but
less work and worrying in gaining the
summit, there is Bunsen Peak, $500
feet high, to the summit of which a
horse can be ridden, and Sepulcher
Mountain.
In this one park are a thousand other
things worth seeing-Boiling River,
which carries of the warm water from
Mammoth Hot Spring; the Grand Can
yon Of the Yellowstone, where from In
Bpiration Point one looks far down below
to the foaming river, sees in the dis
tance q waterfall nearly twice as high
as Niagara and views canyon walls
gloriously tinted with rock Of every COL
or-bright, red, orange, blue, yellow,
purple, black, pearl gray, green, pink,
gles ming white.
Forests Buried.
There are pools and terraces Of vari-
Gus colors: Specimen Ridge, a 2,000-foot
cliff, tmbedded in which can be seen the
remains Of IL fossil forests, one above
the other. Successive volcanic erup-
tions. apparently. in past ages buried a
forest under mud and ash; another for
est grew out Of this, was buried by an
other volcanic upheaval, and SO on
through the centuries and perhaps
many thousands Of years.
The vacationist in Yellowstone finds
wonder after wonder; here a great cliff
Of black volcanic glass, used by the
indians for arTowheads; few miles
farther along the road are the Twin
Lakes, connected by a small brook-yet
one lake is blue, the other green.
In this park, during the season from
June 20 to September 10, the visitor
may hire q saddle horse, safely trained
for his use, at the rate Of $3.50 for an
eight-hour day, or $3.50 for half day
One may make 4la-day tour of the
park, including II meals and 4 nights
lodgings, for $29: and here, in the midst
Of q mountain wilderness, the ladies of
the party may obtain a marcel, by
trained beauty parlor operatives, for rs
cents, or q finger wave for 81.
Services Available.
This, Of course, is not a Government
function. But the Government, through
its National Park Service, contracts with
individuals and companies to supply
adequate and satisfactory service and
accommodations of various kinds al
reasonable prices. And the Government
provides and safeguards water supplies
sees that medical service Is available
builds and maintains bridges, trails and
roads, preserves the beauty OF the park
and protects scenery Of unique and
memory filling grandeur.
Twenty-eight glaciers descend like
the arms Of an octopus. These are great
rivers Of ice, moving slowly to the sur
rounding lowlands-16 inches q day i:
"top speed" The glaciers are from soc
feet to mile in width, cleaning, solid
ice from so feet to many hundreds OF
even a thousand feet in thickness. And
about the base Is q 50-mile circle oi
wildflowers.
In Yosemite National Park In Cali
3ornia great, rugged rock walls go al.
most straight up thousands Of feet di-
rectly from the narrow valley floor. II
as as though the towering mountains
had been cleft asunder by q gigantic
thunder bolt. The upper Yosemite
waterfall is a spectacular outpouring Of
water dropping in a sheer fall Of .43o
1eet-nine times the height Of Niagara