GEYSERS SPOUT AND STEAMING VAPORS RISE

HE first view of the geyser basins affords a sensation never to be forgotten. Early explorers imagined they smelled brimstone. Early lecturers were hissed and sometimes even stoned in the streets as impostors. Certainly the imaginative beholder acquires thrills he never before experienced.

There are more than forty geysers accessible in the three large basins on the west side. Some spout every few seconds, some every few minutes, others at intervals of hours or days, a few at irregular intervals of weeks. The eruptions vary from several feet to two hundred and fifty feet.

But the whole region bubbles and hisses and steams.

THE NORRIS GEYSER BASIN Photograph by J. E. Haynes, St. Paul

THE SPECTACULAR FOUNTAIN GEYSER, SELDOM IN ERUPTION Photograph by J. E. Haynes, St. Paul

THE LIVELY RIVERSIDE GEYSER WHICH PLAYS EVERY FEW HOURS Photograph by J. E. Haynes, St. Paul