The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-05-13

lava lake rose eighty feet in eight hours. The
main how 1906 feet wide is running at the rate
of forty miles hour.
Police guards are holding hundreds of tourists
and automObiiists at considerable distance from
the scene because of the danger of a greater out
burst.
And the spouting of Kiauea is one of the won
der scenes of the world.
"The Hawaiian volcanoes" writes T. A. Jag
gar, Jr, director of the Hawaiian Volcano observ-
atory, ARE truly national asset wholly unique
! of their kind the most famous in the world of
science and the most continuously variously AMI
| harmlessly active volcanoes earth. Kilauea
! crater has been nearly continuously active with
lake lakes of molten lava, for a century.
Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano in the
world with eruptlons about decade and
has poured out more lava during the last century
than any other volcano on the globe Haleakala
is a mountain mass ten thousand feet high with
tremendous crater rift in its summit eight miles
in diameter and three thousand feet deep, contain
ing many high lava cones Haleakala is probably
the largest of all known craters among volcanoes
that are technically known active. 1t erupted
less than two hundred years ago The crater at
sunrise is the grandest volcanic spectacle on
EARTH
kaueas Lava Lake,
The lava lake at KiIauea is the most spectacu-
lar feature of Hawaii National park Ii draws
visitors from all the world 1t is a lake of
hOlieh, merry lava thousand feet long, splaShng
on its banks with noise like waves of the sea,
while great fountains boil through it fifty feet
high This exhibition Of one of the most amazing
revelations of nature-the terrific and irresistible
forces of the earth's internal fires-s accessible
by automobiles almost to the very brink and may
be safely viewed.
The trip from Ho to Kiauea volcano is by au
tomobile a distance of thirty miles. From Hilo
the road gradually ascends through sugar cane
and pineapple plantations, to high elevation and
then plunges into a great forest of tree ferns
whose fronds are thirty feet overhead and pro-
vide a delightful canopy for many miles. At
1000 feet elevation the trip ends at Volcano House
views of towering snow-capped mountains and
the great crater, Kilauea, enormous pit nearly
eight miles In circumference and six hundred feet
deep, enclosing an area of 1850 acres. Filling the
floor of this vast bowl is a sea Of solidifed lava.
visited and contorted into every imaginable shape
With Jets of steam vapor and sulphurous fumes
Using from innumerabie crevices and cracks AT
most at the center is the active throat of the vol
ano itself, called by the natives Halemaumau
The House of Everlasting Fire" This was, In
Hawaiian mythology, the home Of Pee the god
ess of fire.
Greatest Natural Wonder
This throat or inner pit is mile in circum-
erence and contains at all times a raging sea of
olten lava, its white-hot waves lashing and gnaw-
lg at the imprisoning walls. and its vast foun-
Inns of incandescent rock eternally fnging their
cry spray In air; seething and roaring in awful
-andeur. The molten sea rises and falls perl
Ideally, at times even overlooking the rim of the
I and spreading out the floor Of the main
alter, while red-hot crags and massive islands
Sc from its depths to either collapse in tumutu-
is avalanches subside gently beneath the
Irface of the lava. The pit is fascinating by
Wight, but at night the scene is enthralling
nd Il may be witnessed in perfect safety
The national park system of the United States
niains several absolute unique natural wonders.
oh as the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake and the
quotas Of Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant