[Geysers] Bechler map names

[TSBryan at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/25/2006 11:02:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
jacross at lamar.colostate.edu writes:

I hope  not to find anyone today calling a feature "Old Geyser" or "Large Hot 
 
Spring."  These names are undescriptive, unimaginative, and  unappealing.  By 
contrast, "The Tank" is memorable,  descriptive


Jeff and All:
 
I agree for the most part with the quality of these names, but that isn't  
the point. Other Bechler map names that are now official (or is that  
"official"?) include Deep Spring (Shoshone) and Cyclops Spring (UGB), as just  two 
examples. Celestine Pool's name originated with Hague's map of 1904. Etc.  What is 
the difference of these versus those? (Answer, in part: other names have  
sometimes been applied AND later approved in the formal sense (Gem Pool versus  
Great Sky Blue Hot Spring.)
 
I suspect that Bechler meant his terms (many of them, anyhow) to be  
descriptive, not names. But to put this to bed for now, Old Geyser appears with  
capital letters next to an individual feature; I would be very certain that that  
is exactly how Deep Spring got its name. Old Geyser, like New Geyser, might not 
 be a good name, but.....
 
Scott Bryan
 
(Oh, yes. The Tank is NOT the name. It is Old Bath  Lake.)
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