Salt Lake Herald | 1875-05-30 | Page 1 | Local News

The prospect of volcanic eruptions in the we?t seems to be good if the opinion uf the geologists of Wheeler's expedition arc correct. "In the past they have occurred so recently that it is indeed surprising that there is no human record of lliem," .and eruption erup-tion may take place at any time in the luture. In southern Utah they ascertained that there are connected 11. Kitis of lava covering an area of 5,000 square miles, while in Arizona aud New Mexico there is an area of not less than 20,000 tquarc miles, and never betore recogn'..ed as a connected con-nected belt.