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Show YELLOWSTONE WONDERS. Sixty years ago Congress set apart 3,575 square miles of land, mostly in northwestern Wyoming, since kncwn as Yellowstone National park, in order to preserve for posterity one of the most wonderful groups of natural na-tural phenomena in the world. The park is situated on a mountainous moun-tainous plateau from six to eight thousand feet above sea level, with many high peaks of volcanic origin, but now extinct. There are several lakes, the largest being Yellowstone lake, about 10 by 20 miles in extent aiivl lying- 7,741 feet above sea level. The falls and canyon of the Yellowstone Yellow-stone river are among the most spectacular spec-tacular and beautiful to "be found anywhere. Of paramount interest to many are the geysers, about 100 in number mere than exist in all the rest of the world. Most of these spout water and steam, others spout thick mud. Excelsior Ex-celsior geyser is the largest, flowing 4,000 gallons of boiling water a minute min-ute and throwing a great column of watar and steam 100 to 250 feet high at irregular intervals. Old Faithful geyser discharges a column 150 feet high every 64 to 65 minutes, amounting amount-ing to a million and a half gallons at each eruption. Good roads and modern conveniences conven-iences for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors are to be found in the park, which annually attracts a great number of tourists. Hunting is forbidden, for-bidden, but fishing is permitted. The park is one of the greatest wild bird and animal preserves in the world. It was with excellent foresight that this wonderful region was dedicated to public use by Congress as the first of our national parks, of which there are now 22. |