ROTORUA V. YELLOWSTONE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 86, 12 April 1927, Page 6

ROTORUA V. YELLOWSTONE.

A louii-t paily fioin To\a*. Oklahoma Idaho and !.,«., | ; ,t,lv ~x , . .1 •li M i | .|N.iiiii,iPi,i Wl th the ili-j.ln\ ;ii Whaknieunirun. It w a> not iifiuly -o line ;,- their <.\\ n Yellowstone i National Park. This .unto in-uialp complaint prompted in,, to iiiMJUltc a kind of .1. tw.iii.il roniI parUon between our Hot Spun-.' Liml -i-hts and jtho*o of famous VollowMouc, an.! n, th,. pr.*-™.* thon-ol I was furrnl t<. the rt.neln-.ion that the ; Americans attend t-. both the rxplniation and the [exploitation of th.-ir hydro-thci mal marvel- j ;lI I more thoroughly than wo do. I In nn official description of the Yellowstone I National Park supplied me in muho litciat.no ■ from the I'.S.A. Consulate in Wellington. I i,,,,] jn ccumi* of the and other boilinj; i-prin--. j There are *<.mo 40t>:i !,,,t a nd ln»ilin« and jllioic are approximatolv 1• ki "ini>n> Jirui lin all the ie>t of the World." Th- Inoro iln|K.| taut poysors are nil named, and their hoiplu* an.l ; {icrioclicity of eriiplinii* arc li-io.l. "(H.l Faithful" J -l»>llts 120 ft to 170 ft hi-11. iit inl.-rvaN of IHI to I Sii minutes. The •■(Jijint" choot* up Jitoft to I J."><tft f..r nil hour at intei\:iN f ,f from 1V t,, j fourteen day>. Tin* "Hw>lii\r" «k\uard I -200ft, at twelve hour intervals, following the "IJiniitPss. ,, i:. Oft to jooft. And so ~„ <1..«n"t0 the "Hurricnno." 6ft to sft. eontimious. Cortainlv ur have linthtn:; at Hotorua or eWwhou- in «.ui' li.t of permanent -ewi- t.. <<|U.il tin- |>l inriiml V«I j low.-tono water .-h<>..tei>. j The Yellowstone lepion is in m>l i!i«, »;,-,, ; ■\V\ominL', and extends into Idaho nn.l i Montana, k is about li-J mile-' lons and .".J juiioI wide, and has an area of ><|ujho mile. Ji ha- all the familiar phenomena of -_-e\ ~er and lioilinp.imid lej;ioi|v. with tillti-d and In-tied lei race* ami wonderfully ndoiued oaiiyon*. a p,--i: tied forest, and M . on. It |ik» nn a\.i.i-e <le\.i. lion of SOOOft. and (tliou v li the il.-«rri|.t i" ,• 1 kdon't toll us thi., h i, 1,«Ke.l up l.y -now f..i si-vernl mouths of the yenr. That inui-li i- to 1., pilthereil from tlm fart ll:.it it- totiii«t s.-a-on j. I only fiiini .Juno l*> to SopieiultfM' !."•. , Now -,-t this our own New Z.-.i'.an, thermnl-volciinic region. of enui-e. ,i!| (]„. year round. The •-i'.-hi-"' aio nmn -.utcicd thai j tho-o of Yellow-tone. K\. ludiiij White I-luid I ami l.ej.'iniiin-_- at Kotnnia. the woiid.iland i>\trml> Ito Huapchu and it- nater lake, s<, ,!, ;lt ,),,, „,,,.. 1 fers. lake-, spring and volean-M-s aie >prend u\Vi Iμ lielt of a hundred miles in len-.-th We hue n< [■•>!il laithful." I .tit the Tinted Male. 1..:- u< iNsauiuhoe. whieh may |. ( . i,,koned the nin>t interesting «.l>joet in .-,; i our Puia Land The RIJ-ntly -.-atte-red .li.-liil.iitir.tl of oui »c> μ-i * ami other 5p ( . ( ., a ,. ;1 |,, r it,. ni< ~, ,)„. lhpimal '«-atalosiif may | m> a drawl.a.k in s<.me le-p.-.t- to.lay but m the \ear- to , lf i, „ ,)] 1... ~l t, l t. r ~„ n ,|\ an . i tiipe. Thi- |.ii,.f i-ompaii-on of , U ml m-r&<-iiam!> j n.d.eatcs the neee-si, v f., : .-, roinpleto r\i.lorati«.r and Miivey of our Roton-.a TaMpo wond-rh.nd " ll ; P'TM-i". and -prin-.s -houl.l at )„- ~.mit.-,l ami mapped, and period- of aetivity Ij-ted. ».i, is work for tho Dominion's official viilcaiiolojrist for some time to eome. It will not W easv—or oven safe—in s ,ich pla.ee as Roton.ahana. \Vnio ap.i. Uanakei. Orakei-Wako and Hipaua. „, ~K ««'ck of roknanu. Nevorthelr.. it is ; , ncecs-ary detail i,, ,),,. M . irmißr MHV( . V ~. country. When the ratnlo C ue is ....npUled wh< knows but what wo shall Ik- al.le to outdo oxen