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Show J VOLCANO IN SOUTHERN UTAH. It Is Located About Twenty Miles North of Moab. A partly active volcano crater has been discovered by prospectors at a point about twenty miles north of Moab. On a high mesa the prospectors discovered dis-covered steam or smoke rising some distance from where they were, and on investigating found that it rose from a hole in the solid sandstone formation. for-mation. The orifice is oblong, about three feet in width and six teet long. A strong current of warm air carrying carry-ing some vapor arises, but seems to have little or no gaseous smell. The sides of the hole are very black and sooty. A rock thrown in apparently falls a long distance. The prospectors wojckir? is 1 t. will makeuc-ther makeuc-ther investigation. This section has been prospected over for a number of years, and cattle ftnd sheepmen have ridden over it for the past twenty-five years without discovering dis-covering the crater. The prospectors who visited it say they would not have found it but for seeing the steam arise, as it is in a place that would be unlikely to be passed. It appears to be an old volcano vent that has been lying dormant, for years, and is just beginning to show signs of activity. |