The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-04-22

FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
United States and Europe is perhaps
six or seven hundred thousand tons.
The most of the product cones from
Italy, and'it sells for twenty dollars 4
ton. II it could be supplied by Mexico,
it would mean a gross income OF H.
000.000 a year, and the sulphur IN
sight at half the above rate would be
| worth IA billion and a half of dollars.
AS Colonel Sellers said of his fa1nous
~eye-water: There's millions i'll it."
Mining the Sulphur.
In case the mountain is sold. the
mining Of this sulphur will be b.
modern machinery, and the cost OF
bringing it to the market Will be COM
paratively small. The millions of tOnS
already produced have been dug up
by the Indians n carried in bags
by means Of rope ladders out OF the
crater to a point where it could be
drawn up with a MINDLESS and rope,
worked from the rim.
AS soon as the sulphur comes to the
top it is handed over to men who
place it on straw mats and slide with
it down oyer the snow to the timber
line, from where it is carried by horses
and mules to the cars.
Although the crater is exceedingly
hot. it is three miles above the sea
and its rim is bordered with perpetual
snow. With the exception of the holes,
its floor is solid, and the workmen can
move about freely over it. Now and
) then water bursts in, and this, strik-
ing n floor. causes steam. which rises
high over the mountain.
The Worlds Greatest Volcanoes.
: P~opocatapetl is next to the highest
point on the Mexican uplands, being
nY1N t1rn CSaG NV Jn1,r nr;,. No 7
4 is the fourth highest mountain in
Z North America, kissing the clouds al
II 500 feet above the sea. The only
t fountains on our continent that are
higher are Mount ST. Elias and Noun
Mckinley in Alaska, the latter beins
t over 10000 feet. Pixies Peak is NOR
t than 5000 feet lower and Noun
a Washington not much more than one
e third as high.
| have seen most of the Worlr
f great volcanoes. One OF the bes
9 known is StrOmboli. called the light
Q house Of the Mediterranean sea, dow
f the side Of which lava is continual
pouring. 1t is not far from Sicii,
where Etna Is now in mild eruption
d and near Vesuvius. whose smoky con
: is less han one-fourth as tall as oil
l. PopO. / have been on EeSuviuS dur
ing mild eruption and have seen tn
golden lava flowing down in mario,
= streams. one could cOOk an egg owe
them by holding it in a wire basket.
. The Fire Island OF Java.
Tho Island Of Java is made I'D c
n so many volcanoes, the fires of While
IN you u see as you go along the cOas
hat It Is called the fire island. Be
tween it and Sumatra is krakatoa. tn
top Of which blew Off about twenty
seven years ago with an explosio
y which was heard in southern AuStraIi
1900 miles away.
That eruption took away tWo-thirC
OF the island. and the sea is now
l. thousand feet deep where the cent,
of the mountain once stood The bis
: geSt volcanic crater in Java is in II
n eastern part Of the island. 1t is know
as the Sand sea-; it is surrounded
IT craters and it has other volcanoes
a.. its center. / rode across the Sar
- sea on a pony, and climbed to the t.
ke Of the Bromo volcano, which is st
active within it.
d. Our Volcano Park.
or Some of the finest volcanoes a
those of the waiian Islands, and Il
re most wonderful volcano park that CT
be imagined is that which Uncle Sa
Il now making on the island
Hawaii. That island is composed
90 volcanic materials, and il has be
built up from the sea bottom. tt
90 mass of lava is now $4,000 feet abo
the sea level and it extends from t
bed of the ocean up to the surface
the water, a distance OF $1,000 fe
more. Therefore the volcanic p
which ends IN the crater OF Mau
40 L.oa Is really 10000 feet high, or his
er lhan Noun Everest is above t