Show SODA SPRINGS GEYSER EQUALS OLD FAITHFUL IN HEIGHT from kemmerer gazette recently I 1 visited in sodia soda springs idaho the great health resort which thrived around 35 years ago when the old Idabo Idah onha nhia hotel was a pi place for those on vacation periods and its site on the north side of the U P railroad tracks was ier wr a beautiful enclosure it was one of the resorts the union pacific featured on ts its time tables thru idaho this hotel was never rebuilt new life was brought to sola 90 la springs zip rings during the past few years ath the opening pening cr of a st pouter soda water well throwing a stream of water wader feet in the air of equal height with old faithful in yellowstone park this drilling was sponsored sons ored by 21 i public business men of soda springs the 8 inch hole is feet deep it blew in a hot water vater well hollowed Poll owed by a heavy flow of carbon dioxide gas which chilled the water to a of 84 to tc 87 degrees degreen d itis lit is the only known controlled carbon dioxide gas geyser in the world the F site was selected by government geog logist this gas is a type used in making dry ice of which it is said that dry ice is s so 0 cold a teakettle tea kettle kettie of cold water can be brought to boiling point if paced on a dake of same many people have drunk the idanha waters bottled at soda springs which compared with any others now bot tied with a strong fizz effect but it is no longer bottled geologically it is the general opinion that thousands of years ago there were dozens of these geysers blo blowing ing at will in that vicinity as there are still many soda mound formation there geologists claim the ancient geysers were stifled when a flow of lava closed the channel of bear river at soda 6 0 miles west of soda springs that this created a huge lake which colored the geysers boiling and steaming caverns that then existed that after hundreds of years bear river now finally wore its second channel and released the water impounded in the lake but leaving the geysers sealed from their own travertine deposits thousands of years ago geysers were common to this particular section of idaho as far west as lavi lava hot springs geologists geology ts alo aik claim that bear river now flowing to great salt lake prior to the lava flow flowed into the portneuf Port neuf aher that passes thru lava and pocatello but that its course was changed to a southerly direction when it wore its second channel thru the lava flows six miles west of soda springs and it now constitutes the only river flowing into great salt lake because of the fact there is no basin in which this water can flow it has been nece essary to harness the flow which is released two to three times a day |