The Arizona sentinel., 1891-07-25
WONDER EANES.
No Hess Than 8, 5GO Volcanoes
 fn Active Operation.

copah Sulphur region. They cover an area of 4 by 10 miles. This sec ton extends from Black Butte east erly to the Alamo Mucho branch of New river, and from Pasqualitas lake southerly to New river. One,half of these volcanoes have a little cone of dark gray dry mud, 5 to 20 feet at the base and 3 to l5 feet high with a blow off pipe, made of mud, out of which es- capes vapor, steam, sulphurous gases, smoke and flame, with more or less noise, like that of escaping steam from the safety valve of a steam boiler, with an over pressure of steam. So strong are the sulphurous gases that they can be detected for miles away when the wind is favorable and so stifing, that the visitor cannot ap- proach them from the lee side. The other one half of them are filled with boiling hot mud and water, boiling and sputtering, without lifting their contents more than few inches, ex- cept now and then one boils like kettle of nasty pudding, throwing the particles of hot mud high above tse mouths of the craters. Then come the larger class, whose craters arc from 3 to feet in diameter. The cones of these are from 6 to 20 feet in height, built up by deposi5ing mud on the sides. These boil, foam, roar, draw in their breaths, and suck down the mud, then heave hot water, mad, gases and steam into the air, then stop as if for breath, and again burst forth in all of their force and beauty. Finally come the masters of the place, the monarchs of the age, 10 to 15| feet in diameter, and old monarch of the plalns 40 by 100 feet. Some of these remain quiet for hours, others for minutes, while others boil quietly for days, and then as if the steam and gases of the universe were bot tied up, break forth hurling hundreds, yes, thousands of tons of boiling mud, hundreds of feet into the air, with g force that shakes the ground for long distance away. As you stand within a few rods of one of these masters, ycu can feel the crusted earth beneath your feet jar and trem- ble as if ready to tumble into the boiling mass below. You can crawl up the sides of some of the cones and look down for I5, 20, and often 30 feet and watch the restless contents as they rise to the top and finally e1- plode, scattering the hot mud and water about for 50 feet or more. Some will be dead fer days, perhaps for weeks, when all at once they break out with roar of 8 thousand thunders, shaking the hills, the an cient upheavals, the sulphurous crust that forms the simple cover of thls Reething mass of molten, boiling. burning sulphur, mud, and no one can tell what more. The Monarch caps them all. With no cone, sides even with the surface of the adjoin- ing land, and a mouth like a lake, filled with restless hea7ing mud. now almost still, now rolling and pufing, now raising on one side, then lifting itself as if going to roll out and over
 flow the surface for miles away, then again for awhile quiet, perhaps dead still, then with another roll and lift, shaking the earth for miles around, heaving a vast volume of mud, until it almost passes out of sight in the distance. Adjoining these volcanoes and to the westward, are nearly 1000 hot, cold, fresh, salt, sulphur, alum, chalybeate, arsenical, soda, oil, and many other springs, ready for the in valid and pleasure seeker. Shortly thousands will go there seeking health and many will find 1t It is the Baden Baden of the western world. Since the Salton sea began to fill these volcanoes have been very active. The roar of their explosions, when the great upheavals of mud take place is heard for 30, 40, and even 90 miles away. Truly this is the Wonder Land of Lower California.
 Gold, gold, gold, and there was