| Show TRIP TO PARK SALT LAKE PARTY or SIX MAKE IT IN THIRTY DAYS fresh description of the journey and of the to be seen at tho the destination jackson hole editor Trib tribune tribunes uneAs As the liot hot season of pu our nur niner approaches rawly who are an weary with aith the routine and confinement of tho the bu business life of the ali past pa st year seek tile various lako and moun fain resorts and country homes to spend six nil a fow few days or weeks amid the pleasures and attractions these afforded tile most fortunate of these how ever cvar bro arc those who chioe tor their su summers minces rustication the yellowstone national park this region although famous as it Is is comparatively unknown to many who would visit there were they wine w what hat acquainted with its many natural laid and 1 while no region affords more alca s ang and better tor for a camping I 1 our lour tho the park bark also presents pres enla numerous features of oc scientific interest tita th most casual observer er cannot overlook cliffs of 0 volcanic klass glaws unsurpassed sunsui passed w waterfalls it ter mountains or of petrifaction pearl factions valle yso hills of billstone bilm blim stone perpetual enow clad peaks interspersed intel with thousands of natural i fittingly charae lei iced this as the won domland de ilind of tho the world approaching Approach lm uio tile palk pak from uie tile west the lie first feature of interest to io ob berged la Is the I 1 ho path of a tornado which undoubtedly swept over abis within tile past thirty years tile tho land surface evidently was covered with a growth ot or stately pines and when tile tho tornado struck it from faoro the southwest that part or ol tho the entire forest stood in its way was twos uprooted and burled to tile tho ground with thy tot lopa of tile nices tices toward the northeast tho the hack la Is now occupied by a forest of beautiful young pine while while just beyond tho the wll dennid limits of 0 tho the tornado path there la Is but latue baliell tila ber and it Is scattered promiscuously about with no regol tr order of direction and the glowing timber is old and 1 TUB THE GEYSER BASINS tho the tornado loi path however sinks binks into as soon as tho sigh t set reaches the geyer bazin basins this thin part of 0 the pu puk it viewed from a distance looks not unlike a great manufacturing anc city the numerous jets ot of issuing from a multitude of 0 hot springs spring gey cey gets cers anti and orifices and resembling smoke havea been very fittingly compared pared to rising front ino eo many furnaces tur the first object of 0 si special lecial interest Into rott in tho the lower geyser babsin entering front iho file west Is tile tho mami noth paint pots title tills mud caldron la is a basin basill whose dimensions are about feet and it eon cou lalus talus a line flike whitish sub betance which Is 14 in a salte beato of constant tiro the material mater lal contained N within the embankment Is a aernt fauld avid ito 1 hot thure there Is 15 a continuous ui tit of oc mud land producing sounds roSel libling a hearsel y wills pored p olp 11 tho general col c ol or ot of this talling clay is 1 white while still tear near thu the edge ot of tho the pot ou on the north bide are arc various vailous shades of pink rose rom and pray gray thus lims enting beautiful and delicately mixed colors colora tit alie e north side of the ilia embankment Is low and forms a small email hat flat over which are ecal twenty or thirty rn mud d con cones of K various shad shades of pink red roso sad and gray and front from two to thice fret feet in ili height at a neighboring hotel hold the Foun fountain Lain several which were painted from material obtained from this paint pot axe ie on exhibition bi biLlon Bo besides sides ahli there are numerous bi gnall nall geysers in the lower basin but the they y are aid of no especial interest owing ing to the tact fact that the paine phenomenon antl and of oc greater r magnitude Is presented in the upper geyser basin a distance 0 of eight or ten mil s to tile the south in we this basin aro are located many of 0 the WORLD FAMED GrIT SERS such buch as old faithful leeo ilive glant giant giantess grotto castle lion hontas and giand all of 0 which at certain intervals ot of time thae belch foith huge jets ol of boiling water and beeam into the air distances from to feel the water issuing froin all these goy sets contains sill clu in solution which by coming in contact with the air Is deposited first in ew a sott soft girtine ilke and later hardens into stivous stone atone and presents beauty in both form onn and color owing to tho the continuous ot or silica near the orifice from which tho the water Is lacues mounds are gradually built up elisues hence ence all ail geyser eruptions take lake place aiom ai oi baalu in tha lite top ot of bounds while old faithful Falth tul does not erupt alth ith such viole violence ace as some boino ot of her contemporaries in im tile tho upper basin still she he usually impre ses tho the sight seer I 1 ith a kindly feeling which lie does docs nut experienc exper lenco c with the other rey gey scra and when he leaves leavas her it Is di rutih a keen sense seme ot ionizing regret durllie during her cru potions she becomes very violent but not until she eho has riven given tho the bystanders Bt fair warning of the app approaching reach outburst and ample time to attain site safe distance tho the eruptions talie talce place at intervals inton ala of about seven seventy ty minutes find and throw a huge jet 0 of f ale and steam a vertical distance dishun c 0 oc r feet tile time between eruptions in the old faithful varle varies but EL a tow few moments while with other geysers thi the time often i arles from r everst hours to several days d ayn and after the forit has ha become baay with hours of 0 an acx tons ival tor for some other geyser to play pla he usually leaves it still in tho the I 1 inactive n state and u fis returns Ieti irna to old faithful ul himself lit in tho the fact that th a t alen tile the end of 0 the seventy lalau minutes tes approaches the eru eruption p lion will tako take place flaw and after all its eruptions erupt lona lons are excelled by but few ew gayer in this the paa park r k tim thaw excelsior in the il litway basin between tho the upper and low lower er bulins biU tins Js Is tile the LARGEST ST ACTIVE in iho lie known world its crater covers an all area of ft newly nearly an am abc and d when it mays tills majce ioor of oc bolling water I 1 out allu like ilia fire aiola river which rung war by those cholow on tho the river aro are immediately ly surprised by a budden am ond and an Ine reave an m tom pera ture lit in tins tile river thin geyser usually jl dorni ant for several op ap par antly energy and cheit the lw proper time alino ill rives eho bursts bolth roi hi with tit aliu violence of a volcano cano all and besides empty lutr tin tile antho lake kaw ashow ho throw throda tons oil od rock high teto into the air she pho then continua s sometimes for months to shoot forth huso huge jets jc ts ol of hot water aal 20 late into the air at inta or of a few w hows hours the utne in which the excelsior li lit in ED a state of 0 activity the great gey ars in tile the urr r basin usually ily become lacov inactive e thus tending to provo tile the ex of ou a subterranean connection between glicini THE errings lri Learl ni niT r now the gey geysers ee yeii seri and coins to the mammoth ammoth hot springs adla adia tanco lance of fifty idilea to the north front from the upper basin one ot of lh the grandest awl ami mott moet beautiful of 0 ull all natures nature a productions duct dutt ions lons law k presented Prevented TM dr hayden harden ile dow scribes these as follows the th ot of the water vater I 1 surpasses anything of the III kind 1 I 1 two have ever seen tit in any other part of 0 the W world ald the sky aith the smallest cloud cloud that lifts ilits across it is reflected in its limpid depths and tile ultramarine Color 1 more vivid tile pea BOB are greatly heightened by the constant gentle vibrations one can bixik down into the clear depths and goo arii perfect tho the minutest orna on the inner sides ot of the basing bassna antt abot tile the esq te beauty ot of tho the coloring and the variety of form battle amy attempt to portray them either with w ith pen or brush and then too around tho the borderon bor bord derot braot the spring springe es s those of 0 lather father low tempera turc lure and on oil tho the idos and bottoms of the numerous little channels or of the streams ants that now how into there rn ings tharo Is a variety ot of the moat vivid colors I 1 can call only compare them to our most brilliant aniline dyes various hades of 0 red ard front from the brightest to a a bright rose tint tilso also yellow flown n deep sulphur through all the shades of cheam color therease tharo Ther eare are various shades shade of green from tho peculiar vegetation abc also filled with minute tallie fc forms vil billich lich under the microscope prove to bo there are also lit in the tin little that now flow from tile the boiling great rr at ot of fibrous ll brous bilky substance apparently ege vegetable table which vibrato vibrate at tho the slightest bt movement ot of the water wan r and haa the appearance ot of the finest quality or of cahm rc wool whon when the waters nio etc feell these thee the e r nutices ses be become becente conte in Incrust crusted cd with time lime tho the delicate vegetable threads ills djs a appear ofle an r and a d a fibrous mass rt rc maints like delicate snowwhite snow noi white coral boral this Is but a slight mention of a few rca rea ture tures of 0 interest in tuo lite paik to attempt a full ull description of 0 the grand caa canyons the rivers the lakee the for of ests the springs tile mountains and other oilier sights ot of beauty and scientific interest would dequire volumes JACKSONS IIO Ir white the natural wonders and beaulieu alca of 0 the park aroi are unsurpassed by those of 0 any other country still the jackson altol loblon legion adjo illing the park on the uth la Is not without litterest interest it Is a long and ery cry broken vallor valley and bears beam the appeal appearance appe alance anac ut of once having be been en a a largo inland lakes lake tho the old shore line Is very clearly donned on tho the sides of n several mountains nurio und the valley 01 on the west ot of tile valley ara the three teton peak an elevation of about feet hect on tho the north and east cast sides ot of ono one of these peaks locally known as aa mt martine manine are three annall glaciers pla ciers many ot of our people cross tile the atlantic and climb the alps alpo to ace 0 a glacier not knowing that tile the same phenomenon only of less leas magnitude con can be no seen on one of the teton peaks in romle Wyom yom le fing the glaciers are small it Is 1 liao ciuc but they undoubtedly possess all the at of 0 a genuine glacier el acler they have pushed their way down the mountain for some distance and are continually lit in motion the top and middle portions flo florint wint faster than the sides and tile bottom the to lows flows fast to replace nil all that tit the upper surface of the end of the glacier gi a e ter loses ir by folting molting melt mol lne ting chenco tile the orl original gnal j ot of the groat great ice flow lo iti r retained C at tho the lower end those ell ends ds present neally beai ly ar front of f from ro in fifty to two hundred feet act high A 0 stream t r cain of 0 water flows down tile tho mountain front from each glacier parties binovi aed with rood good outfits can call make maho the tour of the park and jackson note hole country from salt lake city in fit live weeks week cur party joseph baker W N Fet fetterson tereon W S wallace from rom ogden and B P howell 1 I E 1 willey and the writer from salt lako lake city ivero gone cone about thirty days still wo we had ample time to see most of 0 cihat hat therow them Is to see very respectfully K N salt lake city august 29 ISM 1809 |
