Identifier: haynesguidetoyel1902gupt (find matches)
Title: Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Guptill, A. B. (Albert Brewer), 1854-1931 Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : F.J. Haynes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ull of water to the rim it is prob-able than an eruption will soon take place, as imme-diately after action the water falls from twelve to eigh-teen inches below the crater rim, from which point it risesgradually until the climax is reached. 46 YKlvI^OWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Ill July, 1899, the Pountain Geyser ceased operationsand remained inactive until October, when it resumed itsusual displays. In the meantime an immense geyserbroke out in the large pool north of the P^ountain. Itseruptions were of great force, quite irregular, but gaveexhibitions equal to Old Faithful, only continuing, attimes, fully an hour. Clepsydra Springft some fifty feet west from theFountain, has recently developed into an active geyser ofno small eruptive power, its frequent displays beingreally quite violent for so small a spouter and verypleasing withal. Mammoth Paint Pots*—Some few hundred feeteast of the Fountain, near the road, from which they areseparated by a fringe of trees, are situated these won-
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MAMMOTH PAINT POTS. TOUR OF THE PARK. 47 derful paint pots. This remarkable mud caldron has abasin which measures 40x60 feet with a mud rim on threesides, which is from four to five feet in height. In thisbasin is a mass of fine, whitish siibstance which is in astate of constant agitation. It resembles some vast boil-ing pot of paint or bed of mortar with numerous pointsof ebullition; and the constant boiling has reduced thecontents to a thoroughly mixed mass of silicious clay.There is a continuous bubbling up of mud, producingsounds like a hoarsely whispered ^^plop-plop/ which risesin hemispherical masses, cones, rings and jets. On thenorth side of the mud basin the rim is low and forms theedge of a fiat of pink and red, which is cracked andseamed, and over which are scattered thirty or forty mudcones generally of a pink and rose color—though a feware gray—averaging from two to three feet in height. There are two roads from the Fountain Hotel toExcelsior Geyser—one leading west

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