Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-05-12
Hawaii National Park.

trees and tree ferns, banks of live sulphur, and
bOttomless issures and earthquake cracks.
Hawaii National Park
Hawaii National park was established by act
of congress approved August 1, 1916 (39 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 CON-
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
the great mountain Mauna LOa, with some ada
cent lands. The total area is 1920 acres.
The Haeakala section, which is on the island
of Maui; and includes the crater of. the extinct
volcano Haeakaa. Its total area is 21,15O acres.
A tract that will contain 800 acres and will con-
meet the Mauna Loa and Kilauea sections of the
park.
Mauna Loa is intermittently active and the
worlds largest Volcano Near the top of this
great mountain towering tC height of 1863
feet above the is the crater of MokuaWe0weO,
with an area of 1870 acres, circumference of
947 miles, length of 81 miles, and width of
LA miles. In October, 1919, great flow of lava
from the west side OF Mauna Loa took place.
1t began in rift well up toward the summit,
and sweeping IT'S way tnfOuSH virgin forests De-
low finally reached the sea- where it pushed up
q sand cone of great dimensions. 1t was called
the Alka flow because il passed over the Aiki
section of South Kona. 1t destroyed 1,S00 linear
feet of the main highway around the island. Lead
ing from the 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-
strayed the city of HO. In the line of these
riffs are many spatter cones and other peculiar
phenomena that attract the attention of the tour
ist.
Halekaa, "The House of the Sum- q the largest
quiescent volcano in the world. The elevation
of its summit is 10032 feet Its crater is nine
teen square miles, or u, 160 acres; the crcumfer-
ence of the rim twenty miles; extreme length,
7.4S miles; extreme width, 237 miles, The almost
vertical walls drop half mile or more 1t is fnl-
possible to realize the great 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 cloul
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
all who look upon them.
Sunrise HalcakaIa
Sunrise, seen from Haleakala's summit is
moving picture of natures painting Says a visi-
tor:
Ten thousand feet above the ocean, which we
could see far below, we waited and soon were
rewarded by faint glow; then the sun rose
higher above the horizon, the glow gradually
changed to beautiful orange red. and the clouds
like great white downy- rivers flowed and dsap-
peared into the crater on the edge of which we
stood. AS the sun higher the colors in tile
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 we had seen the first
glow. We watched for almost an hour. 1t seemed
like two worlds, one above the other alive and
the other coming into life the sun warmed it."
Hawaii is territory of the United States an
nexeJ in 1898. The inhabited islands comprise
chain of eight, stretching distance of more
than four hundred miles, with total area of
$500 square miles and a population of 256,1S0
From northeast TO southwest the islands are Nil
hau, Kauai, Oahu MoIokai, Maui Lanai, Kahoo
lave and Hawaii, the latter giving its name to
the group. Honolulu island of Oahu is the cap
ital and chief commercial city.