. To geyserland : the new and splendid train service of the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Salt Lake City, Ogden and Pocatello to the Yellowstone National Park, connecting with trans-continental trains from all points east and west . ^ geyser has-a, time 6f its-cm-nand there are thousands of them, varyingin size from the little growler, thatsputters and spits a thimbleful from its tinythroat, to the Giant that three times amonth plays for ninety minutes, two hun-dred and fifty feet high. How old the geysers are, recordedtime does not tell, but one or two of thewise men, who are always measuri


. To geyserland : the new and splendid train service of the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Salt Lake City, Ogden and Pocatello to the Yellowstone National Park, connecting with trans-continental trains from all points east and west . ^ geyser has-a, time 6f its-cm-nand there are thousands of them, varyingin size from the little growler, thatsputters and spits a thimbleful from its tinythroat, to the Giant that three times amonth plays for ninety minutes, two hun-dred and fifty feet high. How old the geysers are, recordedtime does not tell, but one or two of thewise men, who are always measuring theduration of things by some system of cal-culation have determined by multiplyingthe deposition from each eruption by theheight of the cone, that the Giant, for in-stance, has been playing some thousandsof years. If those who come and go across theland every year on pleasure bent only,knew how curious and beautiful geysers!are, the National Park would count itsvisitors by


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