Show ALASKAN VOLCANIC I PEAKS ARE IN ERUPTION Party of Scientists Scientists- Ob Observe erve I Fiery Lava Issuing From Mount Mountain in Crests JUNEAU Alaska Aug 5 6 By Dy Mail i Volcanic peaks in the tar far southwester southwestern south south- southwestern wester western corner orner of Alaska are in eruption eruption tion ton this summer evident evidently for the benefit of ot a party of scientists sent I I by the National Geographic society to study Mt the greatest of Alaska's smoking mountains and its is Valley Valey of Ten Thousand Smokes Persons who have have returned recently from the volcanic coun country ry to the westward said peak on island In to the Aleutian chain was in eruption recently They also I reported it i was believed Mt on the southwestern Alaskan mainland mainland main main- land also had spouted as the main main-I snow about the summit was coal black When the party of scientists left Anchorage Alaska on their wa way toI to I the country they said they believed there was little likelihood of an eruption this summer and declared the they were certain there was absolutely absolutely absolutely no danger attached to the in in- in last big blow off of was in June 1912 TO MAKE OBSERVATIONS The party pary of twenty six scientists Is headed by Professor Robert A A. A Griggs of the University of Ohio and some are from Carnegie institute They are planning to make observations observations tons of the botanical biological and geological effects of the 1012 1912 tion ton In Tn 1913 Professor Griggs s headed a party of scientists to and re returned returned ro- ro turned with wih the announcement that the crater was the largest on the globe and that near lay a great geat valley valey whose floor was dotted doted with thousands of mouths mouth vomiting I gray vapory gas and arid smoke smokes This valley valey Professor Griggs s named The Valley Valey of Ten In Thousand Smokes Instead of ten thousand it is said there are arc ae literally millions of smoking ven vents ts NATIONAL PROPERTY Congress recently set aside The Valley Valey of ot Ten Thousand Smokes as I national property and it is believed that that some day It i will wi be a second I Yellowstone geyser field Steaming springs it I is said will wi eventually I take the place of the present smoking vents Professor Grig Griggs s and his party expect expect ex ex- to remain in the I district until late in the the fall Until they return nothing probably will wi be heard from them from them them as there is no direct I means of communication Mrs Griggs 1 and her children the professor to Kodiak an island near Kaimai Ramai Moving roving pictures of ot the smoking mountain and valley valey are to be brought back by the party |