APPENDIX A.
VII.
LIST OF THE PROMINENT GEYSERS.
The numbers in the third column are the highest recorded eruptions. The numbers in the fourth and fifth columns are not to be taken as indicating the correct duration or periodicity of eruptions. The prevalent notion that geysers exhibit uniform periodicity of action, is erroneous. There is only one geyser of importance in the Park that can be depended on, and that is Old Faithful. The figures for the other geysers are merely rough averages, true, perhaps, as the mean of a year’s observations, but not at all to be relied upon in predicting particular eruptions.
The following abbreviations are used: “M. H. S.,” for Mammoth Hot Springs; “N. G. B.,” “L. G. B.,” “M. G. B.,” “U. G. B.,” “S. G. B.,” and “H. G. B.,” for the Norris, Lower, Middle, Upper, Shoshone, and Hart Lake, Geyser Basins respectively; “E. S. Y.” and “W. S. Y.” for the East and West Shores respectively of the Yellowstone Lake; “s.” for second; “m.” for minute; “h.” for hour; and “d.” for day.
| Name. | Location. | Eruptions. | Authors of Names.
Remarks. |
| Height. | Duration | Interval |
| Arsenic | N. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Artemesia | U. G. B. | 150 ft. | 10 m. | 2 d. | U. S. G. S. |
| Atomizer | U. G. B. | 20 ft. | 10 m. | — | Unknown. |
| Bead | L. G. B. | — | — | — | Has a “beautifully beaded tube.”—Comstock. |
| Bee Hive | U. G. B. | 220 ft. | 8 m. | 20 h. | Washburn Party. |
| Bijou | U. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Bulger | U. G. B. | 5 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Castle | U. G. B. | 100 ft. | 25 m. | 24 h. | Washburn Party. “From a distance it strongly resembles an old feudal castle partially in ruins.”—Doane.
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| Catfish | L. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Chinaman | U. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. Really a quiescent spring. Sometimes called a geyser from the circumstance that a Chinaman who had used it for a wash-tub caused an eruption by the soap put in the spring, thus initiating the practice of “soaping geysers.” |
| Clepsydra | L. G. B. | 50 ft. | 10 s. | 3 m. | “Like the ancient water-clock of that name, it marks the passage of time by the discharge of water.”—Comstock (1873). |
| Comet | U. G. B. | 60 ft. | 1 m. | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Congress | N. G. B. | — | — | — | Came into existence in the winter of 1893. Like the memorable 53d Congress, for which it is named, its performance is sadly incommensurate with its promises. |
| Constant | N. G. B. | 40 ft. | 10 s. | 1 m. | Norris. |
| Cubs | U. G. B. | — | — | — | See “Lion.” |
| Deluge | H. G. B. | 15 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Echinus | N. G. B. | 20 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Economic | U. G. B. | — | — | — | No water lost in eruption; all falls back into crater. |
| Excelsior | M. G. B. | 300 ft. | — | 1 to 4 | “A geyser so immeasurably excelling any other ancient or modern known to history that I find but one name fitting, and herein christen it the Excelsior.”—Norris. The Sheridan parties in 1881 and 1882 called it the Sheridan Geyser. |
| Fan | U. G. B. | 60 ft. | 10 m. | 8 h. | Washburn Party. |
| Fearless | N. G. B. | — | — | — | Norris. |
| Fissure | N. G. B. | 100 ft. | 20 m. | 2 h. | U. S. G. S. |
| Fitful | L. G. B. | 3 ft. | — | — | Comstock. |
| Fountain | L. G. B. | 60 ft. | 15 m. | 4 h. | U. S. G. S. |
| Giant | U. G. B. | 200 ft. | 90 m. | 6 d. | Washburn Party. |
| Giantess | U. G. B. | 250 ft. | 12 h. | 14 d. | Washburn Party. |
| Grand | U. G. B. | 200 ft. | 20 m. | 20 h. | U. S. G. S. |
| Gray Bulger | L. G. B. | 1 ft. | 30 s. | 1 m. | U. S. G. S. |
| Great Fountain | L. G. B. | 100 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S.—Called Architectural Fountain in 1871.
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| Grotto | U. G. B. | 40 ft. | 30 m. | 4 h. | Washburn Party. |
| Jet | L. G. B. | 15 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Jewell | U. G. B. | 50 ft. | 1 m. | 50 m. | U. S. G. S. |
| Lion | U. G. B. | 60 ft. | 8 m. | 24 h. | With Lioness and Cubs, called “The Chimneys” by Barlow in 1871; renamed “Trinity” Geysers by Comstock in 1873; most isolated cone called “Niobe” by U. S. G. S. in 1878; present name given by Norris in 1881. |
| Lioness | U. G. B. | 80 ft. | 10 m. | 24 h. | See “Lion.” |
| Lone Star | M : 5. | 60 ft. | 10 m. | 40 m. | Unknown. First called “The Solitary” by the U. S. G. S. in 1872. |
| Minute | N. G. B. | 40 ft. | 20 s. | 90 s. | Norris. |
| Model | U. G. B. | — | — | — | Geyser on a small scale. |
| Monarch | N. G. B. | 125 ft. | 20 m. | 12 h. | Norris. |
| Mortar | N. G. B. | 60 ft. | 6 m. | 8 h. | “Resembles in its eruption the particular piece of ordnance from which it derives its name.” Haynes Guide Book. |
| Mud Geyser | N. G. B. | 10 ft. | 5 m. | 20 m. | Norris. |
| Mud Geyser | I : 9 | 30 ft. | 20 m. | 3 h. | Washburn Party. |
| Oblong | U. G. B. | 40 ft. | 4 m. | 8 h. | U. S. G. S. |
| Old Faithful | U. G. B. | 150 ft. | 41/2 m. | 65 m. | Washburn Party. |
| Pearl | N. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Pebble | N. G. B. | 50 ft. | — | 75 m. | U. S. G. S. |
| Pink Cone | L. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Restless | U. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Riverside | U. G. B. | 80 ft. | 15 m. | 8 h. | U. S. G. S. |
| Rosette | L. G. B. | 30 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Rustic | H. G. B. | 47 ft. | 4 m. | 15 m. | U. S. G. S. |
| Sawmill | U. G. B. | 35 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Sentinel | U. G. B. | 20 ft. | — | — | Barlow. |
| Shield | S. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Spasmodic | U. G. B. | 5 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Spike | H. G. B. | — | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Splendid | U. G. B. | 200 ft. | 10 m. | 3 h. | Norris. |
| Sponge | U. G. B. | — | — | — | From appearance of its crater. |
| Steady | L. G. B. | 30 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Surprise | U. G. B. | 100 ft. | 2 m. | — | |
| Turban | U. G. B. | 20 ft. | 25 m. | — | U. S. G. S. “From the fancied appearance of some of the large globular masses in its basin to a Turkish head-dress.”—Peale. |
| Union (1) | S. G. B. | 114 ft. | 60 m. | 5 h. | U. S. G. S. in 1872. So named “because of its combination of the various forms of geyseric action.”—Peale.
No. 1 is North Cone;
No. 2 Middle Cone; and No. 3 South Cone. |
| Vixen | N. G. B. | — | — | — | Norris. |
| White Dome | L. G. B. | 12 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
| Young Faithful | U. G. B. | 20 ft. | — | — | Earl of Dunraven. |
| Young Hopeful | L. G. B. | 20 ft. | — | — | U. S. G. S. |
APPENDIX B.
LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS NOW IN FORCE AFFECTING THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.