[Geysers] Bechler map names

[TSBryan at aol.com]

Thoughts while passing a winter day (brrr -- 83 degrees here today), in  
reference to the small portion of the 1872 Bechler map of the "Fourth Group" of  
the Lower Geyser Basin. My query is (and the reason for sending this directly 
to  Whittlesey, too): Do capitalized "names" on a map like this constitute real 
 names, or are they taken as being merely descriptive?
 
Part of my reason for asking this is that there are many cases in  
Whittlesey's _Nomenclature_ where something is listed as a name because of its  
appearance on a map (such as by Peale or Weed or etc.).
 
On Bechler's map we have:
Old Geyser and Large Hot Spring. Large Hot Spring clearly is Old Bath Lake  
(=Tank Spring = The Tank = Ranger Pool). Old Geyser would be one of those 
spring  on the slope beyond The Tank (the name that I, ahem, personally prefer). If 
I'd  been making the map and if these were _not_ intended as names, then I 
would have  written them smaller and lower case.
 
On the map also are:
4 Sulphur Springs and 5 Minute Spouter. Are these numerical designations or  
are they names? Do those mean "four sulphur springs" (purely descriptive), 
"four  Sulphur Springs" (semi-name), or "4. Sulphur Springs" (map designation 
number  for a named cluster of springs)? similarly, does the "5" of "5 Minute 
Spouter"  translate as "Five Minute Spouter" or, again, is it a map designation 
(though in  this case even just "Minute Spouter" comes across to me as a name  
outright).
 
Whatever. Since I don't have it, I wonder what other "names" are on  
Bechler's map. 
 
Scott Bryan
 
(I still like Great Sky Blue Hot Spring, too.)
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