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Show VOLCANO IN SOUTHERN UTAH. It Is Located About Twenty Miles North of Moab. A paitly netlvo volcano crntor has been discovered by prospectors nt n point nbout twenty miles north of Moab. On n high mesa tho prospectors discovered dis-covered steam or smoko rising some dlstanco from whore they were, and on Investigating found that It rose from n hole in the solid sandstono formation. for-mation. The orifice Is oblong, nbout three feet In width nnd six feet long. A Btrong current of warm nlr carrying carry-ing some vapor arises, but scorns to have little or no gnseous smell. The sides of the holo aro very black and sooty. A rock thrown In apparently falls a long distance. Tho prospectors working In that section will mako further fur-ther Investigation. This section hns been prospected over for a number of years, and cattle and sheepmen have ridden over It for tho past twenty-flvo yeaix without discovering dis-covering the crater. Tho prospectors who visited it say they would not have found it but for seeing tho steam arise, ns It is in a place that would bo unlikely to bo passed. It nppcars to be nn old volcano vent that has been lying dormant for years, and Is Just beginning to show signs of activity. |