Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1877 — The Wonderland of Montana. [ARTICLE]

The Wonderland of Montana.

A correspondent of the Idaho Statesman, writing from the National Park, on the Yellowstone, says : “ For the past three days we have been reveling in the wonders of this Plutonic region. On every side we have had springs hot and cold, clear and muddy; mountains of pure sulphur, geysers, throwing water 250 feet high, of all shapes, sizes and variations. Ilight here, within 200 yards, the thing varies a little; for, instead of water oozing from mounds built up by the sedimentary deposit of ages, they are funnel-like caldrons fifty feet from the surface. There is one that, looking down into it, appears to be— and I think is—a subterranean river. It is as wide as the Boise river, and the bubbling, seething noise it kicks up is almost terrifying. It is very muddy, and from the appearance of the trees for 500 yards around, and the. wetness of the surface, it must occasionally spout to an immense height. Not far away, at what appears to be the entrance of a cavern, is another boiling spring like the other, rolling out in waves from a- vast hole. It is scalding hot, beautifully clear, but very sulphurous. The rocks around the entrance are covered with a soft sediment of various dark, brilliant colors, on which many names are written. Of course we added ours.”