The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-10-05

shot one hundred feet into the
air; then came a few barrels Of
boiling water rising some ten or
twenty feet into the air. This is re-
peated for some minutes at short in
tervals when suddenly up shoots a
column OF water six feet in diameter
125 feet into the air; this is all at
the boiling point; an immense cloud
of steam rises hundreds Of feet
above the crater to stand in which Is a
hot vapor bath; streams of the geyser
water ruiz off the rounded hill which
the geyser had built for itself, deposit
ing a sediment as it flows, thus adding
to the hill constantly. The sides Of the
hill are dotted here and there with
shallow ponds formed by the geyser
water of eccentric shaped and walled
in by little banks which form them
selves as the water flows over them.
"A name written on the white bot
tom Of these pools, with a lead pencil,
becomes coated with the transparent
deposit and thus preserved. We saw
some names two years old, still distinct.
We left our names with date in several
places. I wrote Detroit Safe Co.. In
one" They saw numberless boiling
springs OF all sizes, some of great depth
and clearneSS; some six inches in dia-
meter; some so feet. There were also
many streams, all very hot. The grey
mare stepped in a stream which scald-
ed her foot, MI. Wiley wrote. He saw
hundreds of acres formed by the geyser
deposits; hills so feet high by 200 feet
broad were built up by the eruption Of
the geySerS; many are surrounded BY
an extinct geyser, while many still had
an active geyser at their summit, he
records. A tomato can was thrown into
the Old Faithful just before its erup-
ton and it was thrown up rs to 100
feet in the air. It wa recovered and
found to have been scratched and bat
tered by the rocks in its exit. I'VE
threw in others after the geyser had
subsidized, and heard them tumbling,
tumbling down for a long time; it must
have gone down for a hundred feet or
more; a hundred miles for all we know
II cannot rid myself of the idea that
the whole crust I'VE which we walk
for miles may be burst asunder by some
terrible exhibition of the awful power
which underlies this geyser system.
Howard and I got separated for Is min
utes while I stopped to wash my hands
IN a tepid stream of geyser water, and
1 felt quite relieved when I saw him
coming behind. I think accidents will
happen here and some one will step
on a crust which is being rendered
thinner and thinner by the action of q
coming geyser and he will be swallow
ed up never to be seen again in the
1t was imposing and impressive ex-
perience for Mr.. Wiley. The pen of a
Dante and the pencil of a Dore would
be hardly sufficient to describe the
scene which surrounds us tonight. We
now heal a mighty, rushing sound and
know that some Of the greater
geysers is in eruption"
Again Mr. Wiley takes note of the
TACT that kill-deer and plover are very
abundant. He saw many wild flowers
great beauty, seeming to flourish I'm
The deposits Of the geysers and In the
atmosphere. Blue fringe
and bluebells he found every
where.
Going to the Madison to get a basin
OF water, MI. Wiley records that he was
caught In q big thunder storm which
gave him q pretty thorough ducking In
my shirt sleeves" He took note Of hail