Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — Interesting Letter Descriptive of Yellowstone National Park. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Letter Descriptive of Yellowstone National Park.

H. Parker Childers, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers, of this city, who left for the weßt several weeks ago, is now in Yellowstone National Park, Wtyo. Under date of August 7th, he writes aB follows: —— My post office address is Yellowstone Park, Wyo., care National Park Transit Co., Norris Hotel. At Mammoth Hot Springs is located F<Jft Yellowstone, the office of the park superintendent and the engineer department. This is the capital of the park. I am at what is called “The Norris Geyser 20 miles north of Mammoth Hot Springs. This geyser basin is the smallest of three such basins in the park. Twenty miles southwest of here located the Fountain Geyser and the Mammoth Paint Pots. Nine miles farther on is the Upper Basin. H6re is located Old Faithful Tnn, named after a geyser of the same name. This geyser plays on an average of every 70 minutes. Next in importance is the Yellowstone Lake, the highest navigible lake in the United States, if not in the world, being at an elevation of nearly 8,000 feet above sea level. Here one can see countless pelicans and there is fine fishing in the lake and river. Sixteen miles northwest of the lake and eleven* miles due east of Nprris is the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone river. This is the grandest sight hr the There are two falls in TeiioWstbfie. i-rjver at this point. The about 160 feet high add Lower falls 309 feet high. It takes 5% days to circle the Loop, as it is called. Board at the various hotels costs five dollars a day, the hotels being operated on the American plan. Will give you a detailed description of the scene here when I return to Rensselaer.”