. To Geyserland : Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroad to the Yellowstone National Park : connecting with transcontinental trains from all points east and west thence through the park by the four-horse Concord coaches of the M-Y Stage Company . orms the stately fountain that plays for three minutes and then slowly sinks into the earth to await its time to rise again. Sometimes the winds unfold from its top an iridescent banner of spray; but more often the fountain form is a perfect cone. Old Faithful plays every seventy minutes and never disappoints. Visitors to the Park may therefore seei


. To Geyserland : Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroad to the Yellowstone National Park : connecting with transcontinental trains from all points east and west thence through the park by the four-horse Concord coaches of the M-Y Stage Company . orms the stately fountain that plays for three minutes and then slowly sinks into the earth to await its time to rise again. Sometimes the winds unfold from its top an iridescent banner of spray; but more often the fountain form is a perfect cone. Old Faithful plays every seventy minutes and never disappoints. Visitors to the Park may therefore seeit under various conditions of light. In the daytime, under the sun, it glistens and gleams with prismatic hues;but the most enchanting hour to witness its performance is that when night is falling—when the dusk isaround it, and the last faint tints of the sun linger in the sky. Then it is a spectre in ghostly white standingagainst the sombre background of the wilderness—a sight strange and startling and never to be forgotten. It has long been the custom at Old Faithful Inn to flood the geyser at night with the rays of a the spectacle takes on new features -all the rainbow hues are there, and looking througn the fountain.


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