<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/26/2005 17:41:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, mabell126@bresnan.net writes:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana Ref'">From this place we ran a wagon as far as possible with animals </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana Ref'">then with men, towards the famous Geyser cone, now in the National Museum in Washington, which was nearly two miles, </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana Ref'">by a circuitous route, to the foot of the bluffs beyond the Paint-Pots. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana Ref'">-------</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Comment that I cannot resist, regarding location/source of this cone. If (maybe a big "if") we presume that this place is Geyser Springs, and if "we ran a wagon as far as possible" but that that left men to trek nearly two miles, then the source of this cone was NOT on or near a road, however primitive.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If not on or near a road, then it was not Oblique Geyser. Avalanche maybe, but not Oblique.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sorry.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott</DIV></BODY></HTML>