. Yellowstone National Park . sand valleys. Elk are seen hereand J^there along the road, andthe deer also; the latter, someyears, frequenting the vicinityof some of the hotels. The Park, with its protectionof the wild game within itsborders, serves well the purposeof a vast game preserve, andalmost completely surrounding itare extensive Government forestreserves, within the magnificenttimber stretches of which thegame finds further covert andsplendid feeding ground duringthe greater part of the such conditions it is notstrange that wild game abounds,and in this natural state is almo
. Yellowstone National Park . sand valleys. Elk are seen hereand J^there along the road, andthe deer also; the latter, someyears, frequenting the vicinityof some of the hotels. The Park, with its protectionof the wild game within itsborders, serves well the purposeof a vast game preserve, andalmost completely surrounding itare extensive Government forestreserves, within the magnificenttimber stretches of which thegame finds further covert andsplendid feeding ground duringthe greater part of the such conditions it is notstrange that wild game abounds,and in this natural state is almostentirely unafraid of man, towhose presence it has becomequite accustomed. The oppor-tunity of viewing wild game inits natural habitat under theseconditions is most unusual, andexists, probably, nowhere else onthe globe, to the same feature is a most interestingaddition to the Park tour, and,aside from the natural wonders,would in itself make the trip well worth while. The Beehive Geyser in Eruption Page Thirteen. Q/^ll o AAT 3 t o rv^ e TsL o H^air^k^,^ Natural Phenomena Nothing that might be written could possibly describe Naturesphenomena in Yellowstone Park — the geysers, mud volcanoes,hot springs and tinted pools. They must be seen and studied,for one person sees in a certain object a charm that is not apparentto another. Following is a table of prominent geysers and springs, basedupon careful observations: Norris Basin Name Eruption IN Feet Duration OF Intervals OP Eruption Black Growler Emerald Pool Great Steam ventBeautiful hot springMore or less continuous 1 to 4 min. 2 to 5 minutes. 6 to 10 min. Rather uncertainFew seconds 1 minute Hurricane New Crater Monarch Constant 6-8 6-25 100-125 20-40 Midway Basin Excelsior Turquoise -years 200-3UU I 30 minutes. | Long intervals-Turquoise Blue; 100 feet diameterWonderfully colored water: 250 x 350 feet diameter Lower Basin Fountain Clepsydra Mammoth Paint Pots Great Fountain F
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