Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-08
TIE STUDY OF MT. KATMAI IN ALASKA.

was enough to destroy all but the hardest herbaceous plants. Before the explosion suffocating blanket of in candeseent sand burst through ori-| fees in the floor of the valley. When the explosion occurred two cubic miles of material was blown off the top of the volcanic mountain and it's present whereabouts, as the police bulletins would say, still is mystery to scien- tists.
 promises to be one of our most prec- ious national heritages. Beyond Kat mai lies a great valley from whose floor constantly aseends millions of columns of steam. These great rolling clouds of vapor which go billowing down the valley, sometimes trailing out before the wind a mile pr more exert an uncanny fascination.
 The fumaroies, or yents through which the steam escapes, disclose en- tcrustations of greatest beauty, Yari- l ety and color. There are masses Of l bright yellow sulphur, chunks of ash l turned red and blue, and pure white masses of silicious material.
 You can cook your dinner over these | Jets of hissiHAy steam, though you. have to hold the frying pan down
 against the uprushing stream. There lis natural bathing pool, one end l cold and another hot. Not far away
 is a lake with trout of thirty inches or more that bite at almost anything and there also is Brooks Falls with 1 it's leaping salmon which may be
 speared when a trout diet pals | President Wilson turned aside from the stress of war time to make this
 region a national Hlanument- Some
 day it will be a national park-seeond 1 in area only to Yellowstone. Many les ser phenomena mark the vicinity There is fallirS mountain, for ex- l ample which needs not. a motion pie 1 ture camera but a phonograph or a radio to record it's thqnderous subsi-
 dence. Magnificent forests will pro- l vide a game preserve. Novarupta, a nearby volcano, now Veils her crater
 in rolling clouds of steam.
 So remote are these phenomena that members of the National Geographic Society's expeditions are the only
 white men whlo have bet explored them; but they are not inaccessible
 A broad deep harbor renders a land 1 ing easy, and fifty miles of roadway
 will place this natural wonderland
 within the compass of a days automo.
 bile trip from the harbor, named Geo- graphic harber, in honor of the Ma
 tional Geographic Society which dis.
 covered and explored the region. SD remote is Katmai that not l; soul was killed in this terrific up
 heaval, and the amazing effects ar,
 just becoming known as the finding of the National Geographic Societ, expeditions, of which Dr. Griggs wa
 For the first time a scientific ex petition bf this kind was accompan
 jed by motion picture men and re
 ble, motion pictures of the Mt Kat
 mai region and the adjoining eight
 wonder of the world" the Valley Q
 Ten Thousand Smokes, were exhibit
 ed before the nationad educational as , sociation in Boston this week. ) While Katmais explosion was tn l invitation to scientific study, tn Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes whic the expeditions disoovered, will be 2 perpetual laboratory for scientist andI bhl eof the mork remarkatl ( ) scenic play grounds among our na
 tienal parks-seoond in size only t l Yellowstone, and displaying phenome } na to be seen nowhere else in tn } world.