Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-12
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distance of 300 feet with a mantle of dark wet dust Harvey Abbey. a for est ranger visited the scene and re- ported the facts.
 "On the following day at 8 A. M. another eruption occurred and on June 8, a week later, the third and much larger outbreak took place It lasted 90 minutes and the rolling column of dense black smoke rose to the height of 2,500 feet. Stones were hurled
 from the crater and the Forest Ser vice outlook house a quarter of a mile away on the tip-top of Lassen Peak, was broken by some of them Blocks and smaller fragments accumulated about the crater to a depth of several feet The dust and sulphurous gases carried southward by the wind were observed at Mineral. the forestry sta uon and the dust was noted Q miles beyond. Forest rangers who were in the neighborhood of the summit dur ing the eruption heard the rushing steam and the falling rocks but report no rumbling or subterranean noise. earth shocks, electrical phenomena or great heat beyond that of steam The dust was practically cold when it fell Considerable volumes of water were elected probably wholly in the form of steam The water condensing from this steam washed a gully in the snow Go the adjacent lakelet which occupies what prior Go this latest eruption had long been regarded as the youngest crater of the Lassen volcano. The new crater is not quite over the throat Of the old but is few hundred feet to the northwestward.
 Tn all there have been eleven erup- uons up to the date of this report- June 21 The most violent was at 9 A. M. June l4 when several overven- turesome persons were injured by fall Ing or rolling stones The eruption was visible from the Sacramento Val ley nearly 40 miles away and created profound interest The last eruption to date was Friday June 19. and of relatively small energy Mir. Rushing reports that eruptions are generally II not always preceded by a complete cessation of escaping steam"
 Mr. Diller has been familiar with Lassen Peak for over 90 years and his present observations are those of seoiogist who had made a special stu dy Of this volcano on several previous visit His statement continues.
 With successive eruptions the new crater is enlarsing June 20, when Mr. B. y. Loomis and ] visited it it was 400 feet long and 100 feet wide With depth of not over 100 feet. It appears to follow a Assure running a little north of east and south of west The escaping steam from the south west end of the Assure is visible in Che excellent photograph obtained by Mr. Loomis
 The other hot holes about Lassen Peak as far as ! can learn have not in. creased their activity unless it is Bum pass Hell which is always fuming but nothing like an eruption has been reported
 NO deilniIe molten products have been found in connection with the re- cent eruptions of Lassen Peak. The elected dust as far as can be judged from an examination with a small pocket lens is disintegrated or pulver. ized dacite. perhaps in part decom- posed The quartz and apparently also the elassy leldspar are bright but Che hornblende. augite and mica are or course nouso abundant in the da- cite and are less evident An exami- nation with a photographic microscope confirms the conclusion that the dust Is the product Of the pulyerzine act ion of the explosive gases on Che rocks through which they are escaping. and not the result of the explosive ex- pansion of gases in a liquid lava.
 'Ewpuons as a rule break out sud denly sishtseers win generally find