<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=red> <div class=Section1> From my research I never felt it was from Vixen, but up Geyser Creek  “to the foot of the bluffs beyond the Paint-Pots”…    Here’s what I have in my notes that “could” be it….   From PW Norris’ “Calumet of the Coteau”  (1883) (p 250)  “From this place we ran a wagon as far as possible with animals, then with men, towards the famous Geyser cone, now in the National Museum in Washington, which was nearly two miles, by a circuitous route, to the foot of the bluffs beyond the Paint-Pots.  There it required a blacksmith frequently sharpening tools, a man to assist in drilling and chiselling, and another to carry and throw cold water upon them to prevent parboiling in the hot steam and jets from its seventeen fine pulsating cones or orifices for nearly a week, and then twenty men to carry it amid the bottomless boiling chaldrons to the wagon, and thence it was conveyed safely to Washington, although weighing nearly half a ton.”   I just found out tonight I have a commitment in Cody on April 24.  Oh, if the East Entrance road would be open on opening weekend….   MA   M.A. Bellingham       <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: geysers-bounces@wwc.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@wwc.edu] On Behalf Of TSBryan@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:07 AM To: geysers@wwc.edu Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyserite at Smithsonian </div>   <div> <div> In a message dated 1/23/2005 22:30:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, meechg@erols.com writes: </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> I would be interested in going to find out more as I live just outside DC. If anyone has prior experience getting access to Smithsonian storage items that might help me make progress </blockquote> </div> <div>   </div> <div> To Graham and any others-- </div> <div>   </div> <div> I am pretty sure this was mentioned/suggested before, but... What is the possibility of obtaining a chemical analysis of the sinter from these (both) cones? Any more, a really teensy piect would be sufficient, and then with luck it could be matched to modern Yellowstone. </div> <div>   </div> <div> I will say this-- when I first saw the photo of the display cone and heard the number of vents, I immediately thought of Avalanche. Now Graham say the Smithsonian says Gibbon Geyser Basin. So.... </div> <div>   </div> <div> Scott Bryan </div> </div> </body> </html>