Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-09
NEW ZEALAND.
frank G. Carpenter Gives BirdS Eye View OF the BEL
Lang Land of the South Pacific Ocean.
FRANK 6. CARPENTER.

rainy. January and February are the
hottest months, and July and August
the coolest, when the ground Is fire.
queutly covered with snow.
A LAND OF VOLCANOES AND HOT
SPRINGS
The New Zealand that we know con-
slsts OF the North Island ana the Middle
Island. They contain all the cities ana
almost all the people. and everything
that makes New Zealand the live wide
awake, prosI uous country that il is to-
day.
The North Island is about as long as
from New York to Pittsburg but a
large part Of II Is hilly and II has somt
plains which are covered with pumlce
sand and thereby untitled for tlllage
or pasturage. II Is largely volcanic
one part Of it has hot springs and gey-
sers somewhat like those OF Yellow
stoe Park. IL has several active vol
canoes, aud within the last five years
there have been serious eruptons, The
mountain Of TongarrO has three craft
ers each Of which vomits forth steam
and yapOr charged with gas and acids.
The Ruapehu is 5000 feet high, ending
in a crater AXE, which Is often coated
with steam,
Mount EgLont Is a volcano which re-
minds me much Of the Fuiiyama OF
Japan. II Is project cone, about
1000 feet higher than Mount Washing
ton. 1t is thirty miles in diameter at
the base and II rises out Of one Of the
most fertile districts Of New Zealand
At It's feet lies New Plymouth, town
Of about 5000 people, The land Is cult
waited close up to the mountain. The
soil Is a rich loan, so good for grass
raisn. that II easily commands 500
per acre and upward. 1t Is used for
dairying. the butter made being ex-
ported 10 Europe and the Philippines.
Lass year 10000 cans were sent away
and the Nov Plymouth people tell me
the product will increase right along.
The New Xealanders call thell cuiln-
try the switzerland Of the South Pacific
It Is an evergreen land, land OF trees,
flowers palms and Of wonderful natural
beauties. In the center Of the North
Island Is Lake Taupa, as large as Lake
Geneva, surrounded by mountains clad
with perpetual snow New Plymouth
has a bay whose approaches are as
beautiful as those of the harbor of Rio
dc Janelro. One OF the striking features
of the Rio bay is the Sugar Loaf at
the entrance bald gray rock l,2OO
feet high, rising almost straight up
from the water, The bay Of Plymouth
has three sugar loafs, which stand as
sentinels In the ocean before 1t, they
are great cones Of earth and rock You
sail between the outer two In coming IN
and rest under the shadow Of the third
at the wooden wharves as your boat
lies at anchor.
THE NEW ZEALAND ALPS.
The Middle Island Is even more pie
turesque than the country north OF
Cook strait Here are the famous New
Zealand Alps which intersect the island,
reaching height Of more than l2,OO
feet in Mount Cook. The snow line Is
lower than in switzerland, and the
scenery Is said to surpass In beauty
that OF the Alps, Many OF the New
Zealand peaks are covered with per
petual snow, and there are great GA
oiers on both sides the range descend"
ing in places TO within few feet of sea
level They come out of the SHOWS
right down into the evergreen forests
and can be easily scaled. Many of the
peaks are untrodden by man, and many
glaciers are yet unnamed, Some are OIL
enormous extent. The Tasman glacier
is eighteen miles long, 200 feet thick
and. on the average, more than a mile
wide. It covers an area of l3OOO acres
The Murchison glacier and the Cooley
Glacier are each ten miles In length, ana
each has an area Of more than 6,OOO
acres.
THE GOVERNMENT A TOURIST
AGENT.
In the summer these New Zealand
mountains are full Of travellers and ex-
plorers. The tourist agents OF Europe
send parties to New Zealand, and the
people of Australia come to this swift
zerland of the South seas just as we
go TO the Switzerland Of Europe The
government itself Is the chief excursion
agent. II prints illustrated guide books
and sells them at cost You can get
Guide to almost any part OF New lea-
land for a sixpence. The government Is
making roads and bridges through the
most picturesque parts OF the lsland
and parllament recently voted SZoo,VOV
for this purpose alone. II Is now open
ing UP the western coast OF the Mlouie