Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-10
SALT0N SEA IS SAILED AND
 STUDIED
Party From Yuma Make Inter eSting Trip Of Three Weeks, Many Features of ths Inland Sea Are Carefully Noted.


 The party who accompanied Dr. Daniel Trembly MacDougal. director of ths Carnegie desert laboratory sit uated near Tucson on his recent cruise of the SaitoI Sea. returned to Yuma Tuesday night. U fiorllun Copp. a well known magazine wilrer who is gathering data for a series of articles to be published in Harper's Monthly. and Herbert Brown, God frey and Stanley Skyes were members of the party.
 The start was maoe from Mecca on February 5th. 4 sail and rowboat combined. seventeen feet in length, which had been secured for the expe- dition. was well loaded with provis- ions of the kind best suited to the most extreme type of outdoor camp ing. For fully week the explorers sailed over the blue-green waters of the great Salton Sea. Dr. MacDougai studying the effects of the Sea u~on botanical life. Mir. Copp taking pie lures and gathering notes for his sto- ries. and MT. Brown devoting his aI- tention exclusively to the animal life of the lake. The cruise was in
  dis-eInbarkation was made at Old Beach. During the trip camps were made at night along the shore. For tunately no bad weather was exDe- rienced. s
 At Calexico the-parTy secured com fortable wagon and the services of a driver by the name of Jenkins. who was well acquainted with the territory near the Cocopah range of mountains. where the party were to study the sur rounding country. These mountains are situated about sixty miles south of Calexico and may be seen to the southwest of Yuma on a clear day Ten days was spent on this part of the trip. a distance of over 200 miles be- ing covered by easy stages. the party entirely circling the base of the Co copah range. On the west side of the mountains is lake which has never been named. measuring fully forty miles in length and exceeding the Sal ton Sea in saltiness. How the lake came into existence. or how such large quantities of salt became deposited in the lake is not known. On the southern end of the lake are the Coy ote Wells. dug no oIs knows when, and which have been repeatedly boarded up by prospectors and cattle men. Near the edge of the lake con- stantly rising steam announces the presence of hot springs of consider able magnitude. The Cocopah In. dians. who were driven from their native heath by the cratic wander ings of the Colorado river. have again taken up their former abode at the western base of the CocoDah mount ains t
 On the return trip several days were pssnt along the shores of the Volcano Lake and mud volcanoes. which are twenty miles from Mexicali and can be seen from the Black Hills. two miles south of the same place Inr Volcana Lake. a mile long and prob ably a half mile wide. borders the mud volcanoes. on the east. the Hardy river running directly through the lake from east to west The mud volcanoes are the only natural Dhe- romenon q their kind known to exist in the UnIted States or Mexico. and are of especial interest to searchers for the unique in scientific facts. They cover an area of nearly a hundred acres. twenty acres being covered with hissing. runbling. seething. -ac- tive mud volcanoes. The cones are in instances fifteen feet in height. and two cones near the southern, end of the volcanic ara are fully twenty-lIvv feet high. The surface between the steaming mounds is a sulphurous crust. varying in color. white and shades of yellow predominatins. The ground is of a decidedly uncomfortable temperature. and walking over the yellowish crust is not only liable to- result in badly burned feet but is positively dangerous. The noise is al most deafening. and mud. steam and water are being continually sDoutes into the air.
 Mir. Copp is still in Yuma and will visit the Laguna dam and the Intake before returning to New York City. Two years ago he and Dr. MacDougal made the trip on the Colorado from Needles to the headwaters. of the Hardy river. and an article on the similarity of the Colorado to the Nile written by MT. Copp appeared in recent issue of Harper's