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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41657 ***
+
+ Transcriber's Note: text originally italicized is rendered herein
+ with underscores before and after. Small-caps are rendered as
+ all uppercase.
+
+
+
+
+ COPYRIGHT 1910 BY OREGON SHORT LINE
+ TEXT BY EDWARD F. COLBORN PHOTOS BY F. J. HAYNES
+
+
+
+
+ TO GEYSERLAND
+
+ [Illustration: Geyser.]
+
+ UNION PACIFIC--OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROADS
+ 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
+
+
+
+
+
+ [Illustration: The Great Falls of the Yellowstone]
+
+
+
+
+GEYSERLAND
+
+
+Where in confusion canyons and mountains and swift running rivers with
+painted banks abound, and elk and deer, buffalo and bear range through
+the wilds unterrified by man and gun, and tall, straight pines in almost
+unbroken forests plant their feet in a tangle of down-timber that
+centuries were required to produce; where in the earth there are vents
+through which roar and rush at exact intervals columns of boiling water,
+sometimes more than two hundred feet high, or in which painted mud
+blubbers and spurts; where pools by thousands at scalding heat boil and
+murmur; where under one's feet is felt the hollow of the earth and
+through hundreds of holes of unfathomable depth come deep growls of
+Nature in her confinement; where dyes have been daubed in delirium on
+hillsides and river's brink; where a canyon gashes the earth thousands
+of feet through colors so vivid and varied that no record can write them
+down; where one of the highest navigable lakes in the world washes the
+feet of mountains that hold aloft the snows through every month of the
+year; where the supernal and the infernal are blended in a harmony that
+only Infinitude can produce, and every miracle of Creation has been
+worked; where one can be lost in a wilderness as long as he will and
+come face to face with almost every form of creative eccentricity--there
+is _Geyserland_.
+
+
+
+
+_The Way in and Out_
+
+
+Yellowstone National Park is reached via the Union Pacific and its
+connection, the Oregon Short Line, the New and Direct Route, over one
+stem from Kansas City and Leavenworth, and over another from Council
+Bluffs and Omaha. By way of the latter you cross the Missouri River over
+a magnificent steel bridge and traverse the "Lane Cut Off," a splendid
+illustration of modern railroad construction. If you journey over the
+stem from Kansas City, your way leads through a succession of thriving
+cities and towns amid the finest farming region of the West, and through
+beautiful Denver, through Cheyenne, thence through Wyoming, and a
+portion of Utah, to Ogden, from which point Salt Lake City, 37 miles
+distant, is reached.
+
+[Illustration: _The Cascades of the Firehole River_]
+
+[Illustration: _Hayden Valley between Yellowstone Lake and the Falls_]
+
+Leaving the central system of transcontinental lines, access to the Park
+is had in a night by way of the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Salt
+Lake City, Ogden, or Pocatello to the station, Yellowstone, Montana, at
+the western border, nineteen miles from the Fountain Hotel.
+
+All along this route are strewn stretches of delightful scenery, and
+fields of rare fertility; but these things the tourist does not see--he
+awakens for breakfast at Yellowstone, and an hour thereafter is
+following the course of the beautiful Madison, well on his way into the
+Park and to the wonders that there await him.
+
+
+
+
+_The Scenery_
+
+
+As a whole, the scenery of the Park is restful and satisfying. What it
+lacks in the stupendous it makes up in softness of coloring and the
+gentle undulations that lead gradually to the massive mountains. The
+green of the pines, lightened and darkened here and there with the
+shades of different species, is everywhere. The waters of the rivers are
+dimmed by the shadows; the cascades have a glimmer and sparkle quite
+their own, and now and then peep out in the sweeps of the distance,
+little lakes that shimmer in the sun. Vagrant clouds of steam, signs of
+the geysers and boiling springs, are seen all over the landscape,
+especially in the early morning when a little of the night frost still
+lingers in the air. Many grotesque shapes are taken on by the rocks, and
+there is hardly a spring or pool that does not suggest its name by its
+form. From the Lake Hotel can be seen facing skyward, the profile of a
+human face so perfect it has long been called "The Sleeping Giant."
+Yellowstone Lake is a marvel of beauty; the dense forest comes down to
+its shores, little dots of islands sprinkle its surface, its waters are
+crystal clear away into the deep, and under the kiss of the sun the face
+of the sea takes on a glory altogether splendid.
+
+[Illustration: _Keppler Cascades_]
+
+[Illustration: Western Entrance]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Gibbon Falls]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+_Coaching in the Park_
+
+
+The stage coach, the old-fashioned one with the lofty seat for the
+driver and the boot and the thorough-brace, the rocking-cradle vehicle
+that served so well when civilization was beating its way westward fifty
+years ago, holds the first right-of-way through the Park. Driven from
+use almost everywhere else by the iron horse, it has found safe refuge
+there, and neither the railways nor the automobiles can enter to oppose
+it.
+
+[Illustration: _The Mud Geyser_]
+
+[Illustration: _A Coaching Party_]
+
+A good half of the pleasures of the tour is found in the coaching. To
+watch for the coming of the stage at the door of the Inn where the
+baggage is piled, and the porters and bell boys stand expectant--to hear
+the clatter of the wheels, the sound of hoofs, and to see the gaily
+harnessed horses in conscious pride swing the coach gracefully under the
+Porte Cochere--to be wheeled over the winding, dustless roads at ten
+miles an hour behind prancing leaders and wheelers--to be garbed as you
+please without thought of style or detail--to breathe air distilled
+among the fragrant pines--to be touched by breezes that fan your cheek
+and dishevel your hair--to be free from all care and abandon yourself to
+the delights that come with the everchanging scenes that panoramic
+Nature is constantly unfolding to your gaze--is to experience an
+exhilaration never to be found among the busy haunts of men.
+
+The drivers, gentlemanly and skillful, are full of information, and you
+do the 158 miles from Yellowstone around the circle back to Yellowstone
+with so little fatigue that you regret the trip is not longer.
+
+
+
+
+_Park Regulations and Improvements_
+
+
+Two companies of United States Cavalry are stationed at Fort
+Yellowstone, and, during the summer detachments of these troops are
+placed in different parts of the reservation. Their duties are to patrol
+the Park, prevent the spreading of forest fires and the commission of
+acts of vandalism. The troops have authority to make arrests for any
+violation of Park regulations. Hunting is especially prohibited, and all
+guns are officially sealed at the entrance to the Park.
+
+The commanding officer at Fort Yellowstone is Acting Superintendent of
+the reservation. All rules and regulations emanate from the Department
+of the Interior, and printed copies of them will be found posted in all
+Park Hotels.
+
+The Government has constructed a system of macadamized roads of easy
+grade throughout the Park, and these are kept sprinkled daily during the
+Park season.
+
+[Illustration: _The Crater of Oblong Geyser_]
+
+[Illustration: _Punch Bowl Spring_]
+
+[Illustration: Grotto Geyser Formation]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Rapids above Upper Falls]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _Upper Geyser Basin_]
+
+_The Geysers_
+
+Nature has lavished her gifts on the region of the Yellowstone--wild
+woodland, crystal rivers, gorgeous canyons and sparkling cascades--all
+under the guard of mountain sentinels around whose lofty heads group
+every form of cloud castle that vagrant winds can build. But of all the
+wonders that God in His mysterious way has there worked to perform, none
+is so strange--so startling--as the geysers.
+
+To count them, great and small, would be like counting the stars, and to
+measure in words their awful power, or picture their splendor of sparkle
+and symmetry--that, no one can do. They must be seen to be appreciated,
+and once seen--the memory and mystery of them will linger to the end of
+the longest life. They are as different as geysers can be. There are
+dead geysers--dead from bursted throats--mere boiling pools now--shaped
+to resemble a variety of familiar things; with depths that the eye
+cannot sound, and colors--blues, greens, purples, reds--down their deep
+sides and in the wonderful tracery about their rims, so blended, so
+beautiful that one may well believe that all the paints on the palette
+of the Master were commingled in their decoration.
+
+One blubbers and gurgles and grumbles awhile, and then with an angry
+roar lifts a great column of mud into the air. Another steams and growls
+through an orifice hundreds of feet wide in seeming angry spite that
+years ago it blew out its throat and ceased to gush forever.[A] But the
+geysers that most attract are the regular-timed spouting wonders--the
+Giant and Giantess, Old Faithful, the Grand, the Fountain, the Castle
+and others whose names mark the geography of the Park.
+
+[A] In 1888, Excelsior, then the greatest geyser in the known world,
+while playing with unusual vigor, ruptured its crater and has never
+spouted since. In its former periods of activity it is said to have
+raised the Firehole river seven feet in as many minutes with its waters.
+(_Ed._)
+
+[Illustration: _The Geysers in Winter_]
+
+They are variously located in three distinct basins which are far enough
+apart to give the traveler by stage a few geysers with each day's
+entertainment. These basins are great wastes of a white deposition
+called in Park vernacular "the formation" under which must be boiling
+one of the mighty cauldrons of the earth, for one can feel under foot a
+tremble, and can hear through a hundred orifices the hiss of steam and
+the angry murmur of the waters below.
+
+The coming and going of the geysers is an astonishing and awe-inspiring
+spectacle, and so accurately timed and so certain to perform are they,
+that no one need miss the experience. The geyser passive is a hole at
+the summit of a cone. The cone rises gradually from the plane of the
+formation and, ragged and deep, growls hoarsely and steams fitfully.
+Thus it is a moment before its time for activity, and then comes the
+geyser active. There is a loud preliminary roar and then suddenly, with
+a rush and power almost terrifying, a white obelisk of scalding,
+steaming water is lifted into the air sometimes 250 feet, and there held
+scintillating and glistening in the sun until the play is over, when it
+sinks gradually back from whence it came, and the fitful growling and
+steaming begins anew.
+
+Every geyser has a time of its own and there are thousands of them,
+varying in size from the little growler that sputters and spits a
+thimbleful from its tiny throat, to the Giant that three times a month
+plays for ninety minutes, 250 feet high.
+
+How old the geysers are, recorded time does not tell, but one or two of
+the wise men, who are always measuring the duration of things by some
+system of calculation, have determined by multiplying the deposition
+from each eruption by the height of the cone, that the Giant, for
+instance, has been playing some thousands of years.
+
+If those who come and go across the land every year on pleasure bent
+only knew how curious and beautiful geysers are, the National Park would
+count its visitors by multitudes.
+
+[Illustration: Old Faithful]
+
+[Illustration: The Great Falls From Below]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _Old Faithful at Sunrise_]
+
+_Old Faithful_
+
+
+In imagination, lift in a symmetrical cone two hundred and fifty
+thousand gallons of scalding, steaming water one hundred and fifty feet
+high and hold it there three minutes; jewel the grand fountain with a
+million diamonds; filter through it the hues of innumerable dancing
+rainbows; commingle in confusion every sound of splash and splutter--and
+you will have a faint idea of Old Faithful in action.
+
+It is the immutable water-clock of the Yellowstone--the most perfect
+illustration of geyseric phenomena--the most famous and beautiful geyser
+in the whole world.
+
+The note of the beginning of the play of the geyser is an angry growl
+down deep in its throat whence almost instantly the water, in rapid
+recurrent leaps, forms 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 see it 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 is around it, and the last faint tints
+of the sun linger in the sky. Then it is a spectre in ghostly white
+standing against 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 searchlight. Then the spectacle takes on new
+features--all the rainbow hues are there, and looking through the
+fountain along the sweep of light, one sees a bediamonded form more
+beautiful than any ever wrought by the hands of the Ice King.
+
+Verily, Old Faithful is one of the most wonderful presentations in all
+the repertoire of Nature.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _The Great Falls from Point Lookout_]
+
+_The Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone_
+
+
+The Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone beggar description. They are
+twin wonders in a Wonderland. Is there any other gorge as gorgeous as
+that Canyon? With such gaiety of coloring--with such delicate and lovely
+shades of yellows and reds, purples and pinks, greens and crimsons, all
+commingling in harmony from the green-fringed brink, down, down the
+craggy sides into sombre depths where the writhing, gleaming ribbon of
+river thousands of feet below, plunges along on its winding way to the
+sea?
+
+And the falls--the drapery of the canyon--the two silvery curtains that
+hang at its head--a great river pouring over a precipice and falling in
+glassy sheets hundreds of feet, then ruffling and flouncing and
+festooning until lost into the rainbow-hued mist at their feet.
+
+See all this as thousands have and thousands will from "Inspiration
+Point"--a rocky balcony over the gorge, with the eagle's nests below
+you--or from "Artist's Point" on the other side, where Moran transferred
+the glories of canyon and falls to canvas; or see it from any of the
+other places where tourists love to linger and look, and you will see
+the most tremendous, stupendous, alluring and altogether splendid
+spectacle that Nature ever spread out for the wonder, amazement and
+delight of mortal eyes.
+
+[Illustration: MAP OF OREGON SHORT LINE, UNION PACIFIC,
+OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION CO., SOUTHERN PACIFIC AND
+CONNECTIONS]
+
+[Illustration: Bridge above The Rapids]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: The Upper Falls]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Oregon Short Line Railroad]
+
+
+
+
+GEYSER TIME TABLE
+
+
+ _Corrected by observations made during season 1910.
+ From Haynes' Official Guide--Yellowstone National Park_
+
+
+ ==================================================================
+ NAME HEIGHT DURATION INTERVALS OF ERUPTIONS
+ FEET
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ UPPER BASIN
+ Artemesia 50 10 minutes 12 to 24 hours
+ Bee-Hive 200 8 minutes 12 hours to 40 days
+ Castle 75 30 minutes 26 hours (freq. misses)
+ Cliff 100 8 minutes 4 to 8 hours
+ Comet 60 1 minute Irregular
+ Cub (Big) 30 10 minutes With Lioness Geyser
+ Cub (Little) 10 3 minutes With Lion Geyser
+ Daisy 75 2 minutes 45 to 60 minutes
+ Economic 20 10 seconds Follows Grand and plays
+ every 5 min. for 2 days
+ Fan 60 10 minutes 4 to 6 hours
+ Giant 250 90 minutes 7 to 12 days
+ Giantess 150 12-24 hours 16 to 25 days
+ Grand 200 40-80 minutes 2 to 20 days
+ Grotto 30 30 minutes 2 to 5 hours
+ Jewel 40 1 minute 5 minutes
+ Lion 60 8 minutes 6 to 12 hours
+ Lioness 100 10 minutes 15 to 20 days
+ Lone Star 75 10 minutes 1 to 2 hours
+ Mortar 30 5 minutes 2 hours
+ Oblong 35 5 minutes 7 to 8 hours
+ Old Faithful 150 4 minutes 65 to 75 minutes
+ Riverside 100 15 minutes 7 hours
+ Saw-Mill 35 2 hours 2 to 3 hours
+ Spasmodic 4 2 minutes 2 to 3 hours
+ Splendid 200 ---------- Ceased to play about 1892
+ Surprise 100 2 minutes Irregular
+ Turban 40 20 minutes With Grand Geyser
+ ====================================================================
+ LOWER BASIN
+ Fountain 75 20 minutes 3 to 6 hours
+ Great Fountain 100 30 minutes 8 to 12 hours
+ ====================================================================
+ MIDWAY BASIN
+ Excelsior 300 Variable 1 to 4 hours, ceased in 1888
+ ====================================================================
+ NORRIS BASIN
+ Constant 20 10 seconds 30 seconds
+ Fearless 25 15 minutes 3 hours
+ Minute Man 15 1-3 minutes 1 to 3 minutes
+ Monarch 100 6 minutes 6 hours
+ Mud 20-60 1-2 minutes New, irregular
+ New Crater 20 1 minute 3 minutes
+ Valentine 100 40 minutes 7-1/2 hours
+ ====================================================================
+
+
+
+
+ A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT POOLS AND SPRINGS
+
+
+ POOLS
+
+ Ace of Clubs
+ Black Sand (Deepest in Park--soundings, 300 feet)
+ Cannon Ball
+ Diamond
+ Devil's Pump
+ Devil's Well
+ Emerald
+ Five Sisters
+ Gem
+ Handkerchief
+ Oyster
+ Oyster Shell
+ Orange
+ Purple
+ Punch Bowl
+ Rainbow
+ Sapphire
+ Silver Bowl
+ Sunset
+ Surprise
+ Three Sisters
+ Tea Kettle
+ Topaz
+ Vault
+
+
+ SPRINGS
+
+ Arsenic
+ Apollinaris
+ Beauty
+ Beryl
+ Butterfly
+ Cleopatra
+ Castle
+ Congress
+ Devil's Ear
+ Iron
+ Morning Glory
+ Pearl
+ Peanut
+ Sponge
+ Soda
+ Soda Butte
+ Three Craters
+
+ [Illustration: Mammoth Hot Springs]
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ [Illustration: Hot Springs Cone]
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_The Mammoth Hot Springs_
+
+
+The structural features are the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and the
+garrison of Fort Yellowstone, around which, and in the vicinity of the
+springs, the landscape gardener has produced many beautiful effects.
+Here are found the most remarkable terrace-building hot springs in the
+world. The formation is calcareous, and the deposition by the waters has
+built up through the centuries cataracts in stone of indescribable
+beauty through which the paints from the earth have been mingled and
+blended with a vividness of coloring and a perfection of shading that
+none but the Master's hand could work.
+
+The waters are of such extraordinary transparency that the eye can only
+guess at their depth. They are held steaming and pulsating in great
+over-hanging bowls, from which they gently flow down over the stony
+cataracts, carving and decorating as they go. Jupiter and Pulpit
+Terraces are the master-pieces of Nature here; but there are hundreds of
+other curious and beautiful things to see. The drive to and from Norris
+is alive with interest. It leads through the Golden Gate, and on the way
+can be seen Obsidian Cliff, Roaring Mountain, Beaver and Twin Lakes and
+other attractive and curious features of topography.
+
+[Illustration: _Mammoth Hotel_]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_The Tame Wild Animals_
+
+
+The animals of the Park are objects of peculiar interest. No sound of
+gun or bark of dog is ever heard, and the animals, though wild, have
+become so tame that they give only curious notice to tourists as they
+pass. Deer, elk and bear roam at will throughout Geyserland. The red
+squirrel and the chipmunk scamper along the roadway, and those furry
+little bundles, the wood-chucks, flatten out on the rocks and take no
+heed of your passing. It is an everyday sight to see deer and their
+young by the roadside, and now and then you get a glimpse of an antlered
+elk, with his family of cows, swimming the streams of the Park. So much
+has been accomplished by law in robbing man of his terrors to the wild,
+that all of the animals in the Park, except those that--like the
+mountain lion and sheep, frequent places inaccessible to travelers--have
+well-nigh lost their fears.
+
+The bears, some of them wrapped in robes that would command a fancy
+price, come down in the evening from their homes in the hills to feed
+around the hotels. The after-dinner entertainment they afford to guests
+is an everyday pleasure.
+
+[Illustration: _Feeding the Bear_]
+
+[Illustration: The Giant Geyser]
+
+[Illustration: Eagle Nest Rock]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _New Grand Canon Hotel_]
+
+_The Inns_
+
+
+They happen along at the end of each day's drive--great roomy structures
+alive with light and full of comfort and good cheer. And such inns they
+are--generous lobbies to lounge in before old-fashioned fire-places,
+with their blazing, snapping logs--beds to sleep in, clean and
+restful--prettily furnished rooms--and cookery and service almost too
+good to be true. To find all these things in a far-away wilderness is to
+wonder what magic was worked to bring them all about.
+
+The great inn at Mammoth has in its foreground, three hundred feet high,
+the wonderful, many-colored, and beautifully-formed Hot Springs Terraces
+which belong in the list of the water-made wonders of the Park.
+
+One of the inns--Old Faithful--cannot be matched anywhere in the
+world. It is a lofty, wide-spreading structure of logs, with a
+touch of Swiss about its gables and windows. Within, the logs are
+everywhere--partitions, balustrades, stair-steps, and newel posts--even
+the drinking fountain is a log. It must have been a mighty task to
+search the forests for all the queer forms of growth that enter into the
+construction of the curious, rustic interior. And the lobby, with its
+four great cheerful fireplaces--its huge corn popper--its clock and
+twenty-foot pendulum, and all the log-made galleries above it--that
+charms and comforts beyond the power of words to tell.
+
+[Illustration: _Old Faithful Inn_]
+
+The inns are located nearby the greatest marvels of the Park and their
+sites have been selected to show them off with admirable skill.
+
+From the Fountain the geysers of the lower basin can be seen at their
+play.
+
+Old Faithful Inn looks out upon a great steaming, spouting field, and
+has its namesake--the glory of all the geysers--almost at its doors. So
+near, indeed, is it, that all the night through, at intervals of seventy
+minutes, can be heard the old monster in eruption.
+
+On a slope that sweeps gently down to the waters sits the Lake Inn. The
+forest creeps down to it on three sides, and the outlook from its goodly
+porches is over the broad expanse of Yellowstone Lake--one of the
+highest of navigated seas, and as passive, clear and prettily
+tree-trimmed a sheet of water as there is in the world. You may reach
+this inn from Thumb by steamer or by coach; but if you would have two
+hours of ecstacy, take the steamer. Thumb is a lunch station, and the
+lunch there is a creation.
+
+The Canyon Inn is almost on the brink of the gorge where falls the
+Yellowstone. It is a duplication in excellence of the other inns, and
+when you bid it good-bye it is to begin your last day's tour of the
+Park. Then comes Norris, with its geysers and its awful "Black Growler,"
+and a lunch that will send the tourist on his homeward way with a
+grateful heart. After that--Yellowstone--and the whistle of the engine
+and the waiting Pullman--your tour is ended and the Park a pleasant
+memory.
+
+[Illustration: Golden Gate]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Pulpit Terrace]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+_The Stage Line_
+
+[Illustration: _Lone Star Geyser_]
+
+
+The M. & Y. Stage Company, operating from Yellowstone, Montana (The
+Oregon Short Line terminus at the western entrance to the Park) is
+licensed by and is under the direct supervision of the United States
+Government.
+
+The line is equipped with elegant new two and four-horse Concord coaches
+and two-horse surreys, and the finest of horses.
+
+The coaches accommodate eight and eleven passengers, the surreys three
+and five passengers. The drivers have been especially selected for the
+service, are well informed, and will point out every interesting feature
+of the Park.
+
+The five days' coaching over the line of this Company takes in all
+interesting sights in the Park, and every effort is made by the
+management to secure the comfort and pleasure of passengers.
+
+Stop-over privileges at any Park hotel are allowed without additional
+stage charge; but twenty-four hours' advance notice must be given to the
+Stage Company of the coach to be taken. Parties so desiring can arrange
+for special coaches or surreys for the Park trip. For further
+information regarding coaches and transportation facilities through the
+Park, address F. J. Haynes, President M. & Y. Stage Company, St. Paul,
+Minn., or Yellowstone Park, Wyo.
+
+
+
+
+THE YELLOWSTONE PARK FARES
+
+
+Owing to the frequent changes of fares throughout the United States,
+this publication will deal only with the round-trip fare from Salt Lake
+City, Ogden, Pocatello and Yellowstone. Following fares from Pocatello
+and Yellowstone are open to all passengers:--Fares from Ogden or Salt
+Lake are side-trip fares available to holders of transcontinental
+tickets of any class reading between Cheyenne, Denver, Colorado Springs,
+Pueblo and points east thereof, on the one hand, and points west of the
+eastern state line of Nevada via the Southern Pacific Company, San
+Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake R. R. or Western Pacific Railway, or west
+of Pocatello, Idaho, via the Oregon Short Line R. R. on the other hand.
+
+ COMPLETE TOUR OF THE PARK From Salt Lake From
+ City, Ogden and Yellowstone.
+ Pocatello. Rail, Stage and
+ Stages and Hotel. Hotels.
+ Five-Day Trip via the Fountain,
+ Old Faithful, Lake and Canyon Inns, $55.50 $46.25
+ Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris
+
+ Hotel accommodations in the Park
+ (thirteen meals and four lodgings)
+ included in the ticket.
+
+ Fare for children covering rail
+ transportation only 4.65
+
+ MAIN POINTS OF INTEREST
+
+ Four-Day Trip via the Fountain,
+ Old Faithful, Lake
+ and Canyon Inns and Norris 45.50 36.25
+
+ Hotel accommodations in the Park
+ (ten meals and three lodgings)
+ included in the ticket.
+
+ Fare for children covering rail
+ transportation only 4.65
+
+ TO THE GEYSERS AND RETURN
+
+ Two-Day Trip--among the Geysers 25.50 16.25
+
+ Hotel accommodations in the Park
+ (four meals and one lodging)
+ included in the ticket.
+
+ Fare for children covering rail
+ transportation only 4.65
+
+ Children under eight years of age will be granted half rates
+ locally in the Park, on stage lines and at hotels.
+
+ For the season of 1911 the first date that passengers can leave
+ Yellowstone (western entrance) and make the tour of the Park is
+ June 16th; the last date leaving Yellowstone, September 16th.
+
+
+ BAGGAGE REGULATIONS
+
+ The baggage limit on coaches is 25 pounds. Excess rate per pound
+ 10 cents. Trunks are not transported through the Park. They may be
+ stored free of charge at Yellowstone, Pocatello, Ogden or Salt
+ Lake City, or they will be sent around to Gardiner by rail for
+ tourists going out that way. Tourists entering via Gardiner and
+ touring the Park by coaches operating from there, if routed out
+ through the western entrance, will transfer to the M. & Y. Stage
+ Line at Norris. They should arrange at Mammoth for transfer of
+ baggage and Oregon Short Line Pullman reservations.
+
+ Provisions will be made at Yellowstone station for the care of
+ ladies' hats, and for cleaning and pressing clothing while
+ passengers are en tour through the Park. A nominal charge will be
+ made for this service.
+
+ GERRIT FORT Passenger Traffic Manager OMAHA, NEBRASKA
+ D. E. BURLEY General Passenger Agent SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
+ OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROAD
+
+ [Illustration: Mammoth Hot Springs]
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ [Illustration: Castle Geyser]
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ADDRESS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING
+
+
+ ATLANTA, GA.
+ 121 Peachtree St. A. J. DUTCHER _General Agent_
+
+ BOSTON, MASS.
+ 176 Washington St. WILLARD MASSEY _New England Pass'r
+ Agent_
+
+ CHEYENNE, WYO.
+ E. R. BREISCH _Ticket Agent_
+
+ CHICAGO, ILL.
+ 73 West Jackson W. G. NEIMYER _General Agent_
+ Boulevard
+
+ CINCINNATI, O.
+ 53 East Fourth St. W. H. CONNOR _General Agent_
+
+ CLEVELAND, O.
+ 305 Williamson Bldg. GEO. B. HILD _General Agent_
+
+ COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA.
+ 522 Broadway WILLIAM B. _City Ticket Agent_
+ RICHARDS
+
+ DENVER, COLO.
+ 935-41 Seventeenth R. S. RUBLE _Assistant Gen'l Pass'r
+ St. Agt. U. P. R. R._
+
+ DES MOINES, IA.
+ 310 West Fifth St. J. W. TURTLE _Traveling Passenger
+ Agent_
+
+ DETROIT, MICH.
+ 11 Fort Street West J. C. FERGUSON _General Agent_
+
+ HOUSTON, TEXAS
+ T. J. ANDERSON _Gen'l Pass'r Agt.
+ G. H. & S. A. Ry._
+
+ HONG KONG, CHINA
+ Kings Building _General Passenger
+ Agent San Francisco
+ Overland Route_
+
+ KANSAS CITY, MO.
+ 901 Walnut St. H. G. KAILL _Asst. Gen'l Pass'r
+ _ Agt. U. P. R. R._
+
+ LEAVENWORTH, KAN.
+ 9-11 Leavenworth J. J. HARTNETT _General Agent_
+ Nat. Bank Bldg.
+
+ LINCOLN, NEB.
+ 1044 O St. E. B. SLOSSON _General Agent_
+
+ LOS ANGELES, CAL.
+ 557 South Spring St. H. O. WILSON _General Agent_
+
+ MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
+ 25 South Third St. H. F. CARTER _District Passenger
+ Agent_
+
+ NEW ORLEANS, LA.
+ Magazine and J. H. R. PARSONS _Gen'l Pass'r Agt.
+ Natchez Sts. M. L. & T. R. R.
+ and S. S. Lines_
+
+ NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.
+ 366 Broadway L. H. NUTTING _General Passenger
+ Agent So. Pac. Co._
+ 287 Broadway J. B. DeFRIEST _General Eastern Agent
+ U. P. R. R._
+
+ OAKLAND, CAL.
+ 1122 Broadway H. V. BLASDEL _Agent Passenger Dept._
+
+ OMAHA, NEB.
+ GERRIT FORT _Pass'r Traffic Mgr.
+ U. P.-O. S. L. R. R's_
+ 1324 Farnam St. L. BEINDORFF _City Pass'r Agent
+ U. P. R. R._
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, PA.
+ 632 Chestnut St. R. J. SMITH _General Agent So.
+ Pac. Co._
+ 841 Chestnut St. S. C. MILBOURNE _General Agent_
+
+ PITTSBURG, PA.
+ 539 Smithfield St. G. G. HERRING _General Agent_
+
+ PORTLAND, ORE.
+ WM. McMURRAY _Gen'l Pass'r Agt.
+ O.-W. R. & N. Co._
+ Third and Washington C. W. STINGER _City Ticket Agent
+ Sts. O.-W. R. & N. Co._
+
+ PUEBLO, COLO.
+ 312 North Main St. L. M. TUDOR _Commercial Agent_
+
+ SACRAMENTO, CAL.
+ 1007 Second St. JAMES WARRACK _Passenger Agent_
+
+ ST. JOSEPH, MO.
+ 505 Francis St. C. T. HUMMER _Asst. Gen'l Pass'r
+ Agt. St. J. & G. I.
+ Ry._
+
+ ST. LOUIS, MO.
+ 903 Olive St., J. G. LOWE _General Agent_
+ Century Bldg.
+
+ SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
+ D. E. BURLEY _Gen'l Pass'r Agt.
+ O. S. L. R. R. Co._
+
+ SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
+ 42 Powell St. S. F. BOOTH _General Agent_
+
+ SAN JOSE, CAL.
+ 19 North First St. F. W. ANGIER _Agent Passenger Dept._
+
+ SEATTLE, WASH.
+ W. D. SKINNER _Gen'l Pass'r Agt.
+ O.-W. R. & N. Co._
+ 608 First Avenue E. E. ELLIS _General Agent
+ O.-W. R. & N. Co._
+
+ SPOKANE, WASH.
+ 603 Sprague Avenue H. C. MUNSON _City Tkt. Agent
+ O.-W. R. & N. Co._
+
+ SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
+ 40 Pitt St. V. A. SPROUL _Australian Passenger
+ Agent_
+
+ TACOMA, WASH.
+ Berlin Bldg. ROBERT LEE _General Agent
+ O.-W. R. & N. Co._
+
+ TORONTO, CANADA
+ Room 14, Janes Bldg. J. O. GOODSELL _Traveling Passenger
+ Agent_
+
+ YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
+ 4 Water St. _General Passenger
+ Agent San Francisco
+ Overland Route_
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of To Geyserland, by Edward F. Colborn
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41657 ***
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