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Title: To Geyserland : Oregon Short Line Railroad 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
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Colborn, Edward F Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
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Publisher: (United States) : Oregon Short Line
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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belisk of scalding, steaming water is lifted into the air sometimes 250 feet, and thereheld scintillating and glistening in the sun until the play is over, when it sinks gradually back from whenceit 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 littlegrowler that sputters and spits a thimbleful from its tiny throat, to the Giant that three times a month playsfor 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 alwaysmeasuring the duration of things by some system of calculation, have determined by multiplying thedeposition from each eruption by the height of the cone, that the Giant, for instance, has been playingsome thousands of years. If those who come and go across the land every year on pleasure bent only knew how curious andbeautiful geysers are, the National Park would count its visitors by multitudes.
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