Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-06


trees and tree ferns, banks of live sulphur, and
bottomless assures and earthquake cracks.
Hawaii National Park
Hawaii National park was established by act
of congress approved August l. 1916 60 Stat,
1927 The park at the present time is composed
of three noncontiguous areas, two on the island
of Hawaii, the largest island Of the group COM
posing the territory Of Hawaii and one of the
island of Maui Briefly, the park lands may be
described as follows:
The Kilauea section, which embraces the crater
Of Kilauea and much Of the surrounding region.
Its area is 1886 acres.
The Mauna Loa section, which includes the
crater of MokuaweOweO, the summit Greater of
cent lands. The total area is 17,02O acres.
The Haleakala section, which is on the island
of Maui and includes the crater of the extinct
volcano Haleakala. It's total area is 21,15O acres.
A tract that will contain $50 acres, and will con-
meet the Mauna Loa and Kilauea sections of the
park.
Mauna Loa is internationally active and the
worlds largest volcano. Near the top of this
great mountain, towering to height of 1850
feet above the sea- is the crater of MokuaWeoweo,
with an area Of 2,37O acres, circumference of
947 miles, length Of 81 miles, and width Of
La miles. In October, 1919 a great flow of lava
from the west side Of Mauna Loa took place.
1t began in rift well up toward the summit
and sweeping its way through virgin forests be-
low finally reached the sea, where it pushed up
d sand cone of great dimensions 1t was called
the Alika flow, because it passed over the Alika
section of South Kona. 1t destroyed l,SOO linear
feet of the main highway around the island. Lead
ing from the crater itself and in the region just be-
low are several riffs of great scientific interest.
From these riffs, which in many cases are highly
colored numerous lava flows have issued, among
them the great flow Of 1881 which nearly de-
strOyed the city of Hilo In the line OF these
riffs are many spatter cones and other peculiar
phenomena that attract the attention of the tour
ist
Haekala, "The House of the Sum- is the largest
quescent volcano in the world The elevation
OF it's summit is 10,032 feet. It's crater is nine
teen square miles, or IL, 100 acres the circumfer-
ence of the RIM twenty miles; extreme length,
7.4S miles; extreme width, 237 miles. The almost
vertical walls drop half mile or more. It is inn
possible to realize the great area of the crater.
The whole Of New York city, below Central park,
could be buried within its depths and the highest
of that ctys church spires would be but toys by
the side of its cinder cones; cones which rise like
young mountains from the bottom of the crater
and which are relatively but fair-sized ant hills
when viewed from the summit.
This vantage point is above the usual cloud
elevation. The level rays of the setting sun IL
illuminate every nook and corner of the stupendous
crater and bring to view the outlines and delicate
tints of the majestic pictures which have been
hung in this mammoth gallery, to thrill and awe
all who look upon them.
Sunrise HaIeakaIa.
Sunrise, seen from Haleakala's summit is
moving picture Of natures painting Says visi-.
tor:
''Ien thousand feet above the ocean, which we
could see far below, we waited, and soon We're
rewarded by faint glow; then, as the sun rose
higher above the horizon, the glow gradually
changed to a beautiful orange red, and the clouds
like great white downy rivers flowed and disap-
reared into the crater the edge of which we
stood AS the sun rose higher the colors in the
crater became more and more intense the shad-
ows deeper and bluer, and then the sunlight be-
gan to brighten the sugar-cane fields far below
fully 10 or Is minutes after had seen the first
glow We watched for almost an hour. 1t seemed
like two worlds, one above the other one alive and
the other coming into life the sun warmed It.
Hawaii is a territory of the United States an
nexed in 1898. The inhabited islands comprise
than four hundred miles, with total area OF
$500 square miles and population OF 2oo,lSu.
From northeast to southwest the islands are NIL
hau Kauai, Oahu Molokai, Maui, Lanai, kahoo-
lave and Hawaii, the latter giving its name to
the group Honolulu, island of Oahu, is the cap
itaI and chief commercial city.