The Coconino sun., 1922-02-24

here and there.
 The side walls were perpendicular
 In the center of the crater was smal
 island, which, it is claimed, raised
 with the molten mass in the spring o.
 1919 to the top and some 75 fee
 above the lava, sinking again as tn,
 floor receded.
 There was no question but tn,
 chauffeur was busy down below. IT
 some places liquid fire would spout
 out and streak out over the black area.
 with good old Fourth of July spray 1 One corner was more nervous thar
 the rest. Here the red-hot lava would
 growl and boil, spreading over a half,
 acre, then gradually growing dark
 Again, like steaks of lightning, break
 up through the upper crust, making
 stars and freak designs until the mass
 was all red again. There was little
 or no gas arising, though it is claimed that large though less active crater
 some miles farther over on foot
 trail, emitted gas and made close
 approach impossible.
 There are many very chaming my thical stories woven about the volca- noes by natives in days gone by which the government, as represented by Dr. T. A. Jaggar, is heartlessly disaprov- ing. He has a laboratory on the brink of the old volcano where he has been keeping tab on it's movements for the past ten years or more.
 The guide-book, in the interim when not prevaricating about the hotel ac- commodations and auto trips, says the Kilauea crater is the largest continu- ously active crater in the world. Take it or leave it. It's the biggest na- ture- made smelter 1 ever witnessed, and haven't time to hunt up another just to spite the natives - they have been treating us all right. Its area is 2,650 acres or ALA square miles. Extreme length, 15,500 feet or 2.93 miles; extreme width 10,300 feet or 1.95 miles; circumference 7.S5 miles or 41, 800 feet. This is sufficient data some anyone may figure it out in in- ches if he cares to. The south pit is called Halemaumau -- the House of Everlasting Fire" This crater slop- ped over continuously for two years 1918 and 1919. Dr. Jaggar, the search and researcher, says the lava lake is less than 50 feet deep. "In 1911," he continues, "geologists thought that steam actuated volcanoes; in 1917 it was believed that only 4 per cent or less of the Kilauea lava-gas was steam, and even this in part might be burnt hydrogen. Burning sulphur, hydrogen and carbon gas we know are powerful heating and oxidizing agents in and about the liquid lava, great natural blow pipe flames and effervescing through the hot liquid as in a Bessemer conver- ter" He also gives us another think on the subject by saying, q do not believe a volcano to be a steam en- zine, but think of it as natures glass factory actuated by burning gases"
 We hope he is right, but fear he hasn't exactly wrung the correct an- swer from Nature yet, but may get wiser by snooping around there for a few years longer.
 It was a beautiful sight coming along the coast of Hawaii island in the morning. We were close in to land. The island sloped down from the 14,000-foot mountain to the sea, then brake off abruptly, leaving sea wall from 25 to 100 feet high. Hun- dreds of little and big streams rum hing down from the mountain side, made waterfalls where they emptied into the sea. It is said the sea is two to three miles deep along the coast, making the top of the mountain some five or six miles from the bot tom of the sea. The old mountain seems to start on it's upward slope direct from the coast-line. We did not get to see the top of the noun sain, as the clouds were using it, just IS they do the San Francisco Peaks 1t times. The natives said it was GOV. cred with snow to about half way town. The whole country is vivid green.
 Over here they do not raise as many as on Ohau, the island lpon which Honolulu is situated, but mainly sugar, some corn, and the lsual tropical fruits and flowers. There is considerable range land up he mountain slopes upon which cat ,le are grazed. In fact, they furnish most of the meat for the other is- ands. On one side of the island, at koua, coffee is raised in great quan- ,ities and it is of very fine quality , durned sight better then Arbuckle's ,r AK.
 The island is all one country, or .ity, merged into one form of govern nent, as are all the other islands.
 It seems that along about 1555, fellow named Juan Gaetano claimed % have discovered these islands, but t didn't stick in history, as probably Juan had no press-agent, 50 it was de- ,ided that Capt. Jim Cook be allowed o do the work all over again in IT'S, when he landed on Oahu and called he outfit the Sandwich Islands, after he Earl of Sandwich. This. would seem to indicate that many people