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Show STEADY GOING VOLCANO. Small On 1. Santa riarhura Counfj-, Callfarala, Thwt IIn. necn Ao-tlv Ao-tlv foir Jinny Tcsri. Santa Barbara county is naturally divided into a northern and a south- ern half by a range of rugged moun- tains varying fhnn ,000 to 4,nfi0 feet' high. The city of Santa 7!a rba ra. Wontecito and other health resorts are along the coast in the southern half. Los Alamos is near the middle mid-dle of the great, valleys comprising most of the northern part of the country, and is about fifl miles from the city of Santa Harbara, with a big mountain range intervening, says the San Francisco Chronicle. For many years there has bcn a small, active volcano on the ' Los Alamo side of the mountain. Jt is almost within sight of the old Los Alamos-Santa Harbara stage road that crosses the mountain by the San Marcos pass. Hunters and cattlemen of the vicinity and prospectors pros-pectors are familiar with it. Smoke and steam constantly issue from various fissures along the summit of a plateau or shelf near the nnrlhcrn slope of the mountain. Viewed from the distance of the old sage r-,;id these manifestations appear like small campfires. They have never developed any alarming tendencies and have attracted very little direct investigation. And vet'thev inav become be-come vent holes from which long-confined long-confined ashes and lava will spout.' |