Show A sulphurous volcano we cip the fol gwim owing b from the los angelos star of august joel H brooks arrived yesterday from coso and vicinity ile he gave us a specimen of pure brimstone which he picked upon up on the desert having discovered an active volcano pouring forth a stream of sulphur this is rather a curiosity in in ib way of volcanoes the thet e is i no distinct crater cr ter though almo t an infinite I 1 number of pipes probably probably po bably babiy ten thousand hot stean steam and su panr D are discharged the latter of w which h ich con cod congealing ealin forms the pure i brimstone of commerce commer c e alum alum is also found leue leu pu e ey and in great abundance it appears a paea rs as the sulphur cong congeals reals it is s out a coat coating ing of aum aam alum he bri brimstone m ston e forming around th the e flues these su chur hur bur sprin aprin springs s cover ab about out two acres of ground they are s fuated on the side of a volcanic hill about three hundred feet above the level of the plains twenty miles south of coso and fifteen miles sailes northeast of little owens lake these springs have been claimed by the discoverers brooks and hart for the purposes of trade by fastening a yeast powder box to a willow pole they dipped up lip the boiling sulphur gulp guip hur the steam issuing from the pipes is so hot as to immediately blister the hand hang in coming iu in contact with it the ground is generally so soft and hot that planks have to he be used in crossing it surely the hot place we read about is not far from that volcano |