Crossed the river near the north of Iron Spring Creek 
and followed Gannett past the hot spring and geyser and up 
the rocky cliffs. Here Gannett was making a station. Col- 
lected a piece of the trachyte which Is here exposed in 
great irregularly bedded (?) masses or sheets. Exposure of 
pebbles 200 feet. Texture etc. uniform within certain limits 
Told Gannett of Wilson* s misfortune, whereupon he returned 
to the cam^, upper basin to consult with Hayden and Wilson. 
West and I rode hurriedly down the trail. Just below the 
middle Geyser basin we were accosted by a horseman with 
gaudy buckskins and feather who issued suddenly from the 
woods. It was Col. Norris, superintendent of the Pax-k. 
He was on his way to the upper basin. His men were just 
behind him cutting a wagon road up the valley. Learning 
that our outfit had camped with his In the old camp ground 
of *72 in the lower basin. West and I concluded to wait 
for Gannett so that we could make a station with him if 
'to 
he desired. We returned the great springs and spent nearly 
an hour reviewing what are certainly the grandest springs 
in the world. The Great Blub Spring of which Horan has 
made the water color drawing has recently been in a tre- 
mendous state of disturbance, very probably a gigantic 
eruption as the walls are torn and distorted and great 
masses of rubbish and broken gey serite lie heaped up a 
little distance back from the cave hollowed rim. There Is 
lively boiling going on all the time nearly all over the 
