The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-29
BOSS
 BAKING POWDER

few volcanic craters, active or extinct, are not mere dwarfs compared with this one. Crater lake has a feature that is peculiar to itself-i. e., 1t is everywhere encompassed by gigantic walls mo- where less than 1000 feet high, and in places reaching am altitude of more than 2000 feet.
 I will venture TO say that the evil dences which exist here clearly show that the cone which once covered this old crater reached an altitude of from 16,0O0 to 10000 feet above the level of the ocean, and possibly more. To my mind it was once the highest mountain on the continent. If we consider Its base, form, and the angle of side, then the shape, side, angles, height and base area of the present high peaks of the same, formed at the same time and for Nike causes, considering also that
 wihch is am ndmttted geological fact,
 that the flow had ceased practically from all other craters along this old fracture line, which became clogged and choked and We will easily imagine the natural consequences. which will be an increased energy and force, at the only considerable remaining vent
 left open for the relief of the pent-up
 forces, forces that had been sufficient to
 elevate a stupendous range to an alti- tude of from 5000 to 12,000 feet; to cover
 hundreds, aye, thousands of square
 miles with a mass of lava from 2,000 to 4,00O feet thick, concentrating all
 strength and energy at this one spot.
 We need not be surprised that at such
 place, and under such circumstances,
 we find evidences of the greatest vol
 canic effort the world has ever experi-
 enced. It would be strange, too, if
 there we did not find the most stupend-
 ous cone, the destruction of which was
 the work of an aggregation of forces
 employed After considering all this, if we will protract the lines of this moun- tain upward on the angles of it's sides, as we find them, until they meet, giv- ing to it the shape of Hood, Jefferson, Diamond Peak, Mclaughlin and Shasta it's culminating point would pierce the clouds not much below Everest.
 I am credibly informed that Mount
 Hood, at an elevation of 5000 feet, is lOI IHeltl lttl GC IilA1GS III Yet Hood is practically 12,000 feet high, We can well use Hood to compare this one with It Is only an infant in size | compared with the oge we are treating. Imagine 1t cut off, however, at the level of the top of Crater lake mourn tain. and we have the frustrum of 3 cone with the upper plane only three
 miles in diameter, while that of Crater Lake cone is six by seven miles across its hollowed portion alone Imagina- ton cannot be wilder than the truth In this instance. Just think of iti An
 excavation six by seven miles in ex- tent, 4000 feet deep, and filled half full of the dearest and purest water in the world In places the wall is almost vertical, and a rock dropped from the | highest points finds no obstacle in the way for nearly 2,000 feet, and in two bounds strikes the water more than two thousand feet below. tried the experiment.. Lying fiat, my face below
 the brink, dropped a stone from my hand and as I watched it sink down, down, down, I was taken with an al- l most irresistible impulse to follow. The sensation under such circumstances is
 not unusual; neither is it pleasant. The cone, $40 feet high called Wizard
 Island, is of much interest. It Is a sym | metrical cinder cone, and is doubtless
 the last chimney of the old volcano.
 The rho1lowed place in it's top partly | filled with snow.
 l At the time of our visit in 1873 we dis Lowered only one place where we con- sidered it possible to reach the water, and even there We exercised extreme
 caution More familiarity with it has discovered other places. however, where
 the descent may be made without great difficulty. At the point discovered by
 us eauseway had been worn through i the rim by the breaking away of huge l fragments which, dashing upon the
 rocks below, have worn and broken
 them out, leaving in the track rock, dust andashes, into which we sank
 ankle deep, making the ascent very
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