Show THE HOT PLUG I 1 went up north to The Hot Het Plc last Jast Sunday This natural phenomenon enon Is variously called The Cinder I Cone The Tho Crater Cone but but more mora properly Fumarole Butte Butto because e eA A in damp p cold October weather mist nay may be seem issuing from crevices in the rook as it if th they y were fumed fume from the banning lake of fire Ure and brimstone below berow It Is about about a- a bout twenty five miles mile northwest of Delta and may be seen from any two story etory building s Several ve l years ago a a- a to toc c The The- Chronicle Insisted on on a receipt J A j. j he paid for tor the paper and andt t t. geb en I 1 gently inquired the th reason 4 f ho 10 replied ed When I present myself myself my my- self for n before Saint Peter Peter Pe- Pe ter and have hayte to show him I didn't leave any behind and especially especial especial- ly tar the tho home town dont don't w to have Ita hunt aU all OT hell for you to get a receipt Welt Well J I heard from that fellow o on last Sunday he was but without a a. late re receipt More of him er back that feller felter fel- fel well we'll come to ter ler after I 1 tell you of at some somo of at the interesting in- in wresting things I saw uv up there The reason I 1 went to The Hot Plug Is that iu in the Monograph of the United Stat States Survey written by a. a bert In 1888 1883 and published published pub pub- in 1890 he says saya and his k kords words are accepted authority The Important locality re- re to be described is 18 the tho north edge or of the Sevier DeseN clove to t-o tho Old Bed On the to top of IlL a mass grass ut five miles n a- a erosa In either direction stands d A At t Gr feet teet high with Q a truncated ed and tonn sum sum- nii The colors are ye gray and Its I j tonal from firm Compact Com Com- pact basalt The tower Fumarole Butts ma position ot of the th TOl- TOl v nt About this thia vent tae were Iliad and tt It the lava l va of the elia The last phase of 4 e eruption pt n was wag non and t rock was formed In the flue Subsequent erosion carried away awa much ot of the soft Boft rim but ut loft leU the Ta re- pore standing upright tore visiting this butte Gil- Gil Gilpert pert ort sa I had listened with in- in dulO s W r t to the stat m ut that moke or B t was waa sometimes seen to arise from Its but my own observation a aU all About the outer edge edff ot of the theu u t are thirty of forty f Wn JIt ii warm moist air gently k wa D Deep J green moss moos glistening with moisture the edged of these I 1 the temper tempel ture 18 degrees w r In our r f Fe t ot of air arising in those these ar vl t J. J t t Q e mean temper tempe stura pf it the locality A. A group of hot Springs spring th or six miles away way have haVO the significance J c their temperature rang from to Fam Fahr Just north ot of A tte is a basaltic mesa mea terraced with and Provo shore hore lines of g t Juke Bonne- Bonne W. W Remnants of yellow P play 1 f pre re present These f pots demonstrate that thea the place In Tertiary Ter Ter- took a volcanic Uary time The rhe impressive i pt oi locality is the secular t enco of the heat At tn the time lOt of the pJ tion the rooks rocks ad ad- to It the he conduit heated heat heat- ed and the lain laft I l In the dykes 3 and chimneys added to the U store etore Of hopt t. t Since that time con con- has haa carried this heat eat in all a nd d the con con- Y of r has hns l to discharge it to the atmos- atmos p pher p ml yet rot enough remains to 18 18 w than thanh f a f the h Jr Ih The pe period AA of M heat leal 1 pation the he whole pI of the t e Pleistocene and a an aH antecedent period or of erosion D JY pf equal t That hat much for tor quotation Owing to bi high a air be careful reful ho be hAd to ut I can say U dt plainly That I r connects down to hell And the j from the tires it the base of the lI V Its length eo 80 that the top is tot not Hence the name uTile The liot Plug I f fO soft light porous parous red Orla m B scattered around ctr pt mile Ue In In a taught t of g diameter dil a the h it Vf Ras m o lIs light t In fn W weight I ht that t It hefted lIke rot rotten or oa Py Then next higher up a compact bard h rd ba- ba a. a of gray Iray with two ro material in dt The Tho level flow of I Ilava lava from the butte was I almost wholly of the tho common black variety air blown blO in some sometimes some some- J JUmes times Umes smooth and shiny in other othor instances in- in in-I in stances AU All of at this had boon melt melt- Pd and show d fluidity The butte bs q 4 tp large fully tout higher t the vo t rilles from tIrom and than an e law t n pp pp 14 1 say 1 to 10 waiting for oo I shouted Grou around and and found four more oranges and sel wallo c t one ana In ten minutes a ather ther hung in it was ten dem degrees s sT T warmer than the one ana outside To check Ithe findings I 1 put both thermometer ther- ther ou outside ide until they registered registered regis regis- the dame and them themI I put the one at first inside now out and again D ton ten there minutes s Wa Waa was wasa a of ten degrees between the tho two So Sa that ft it is clearly established to Ito my own own satisfaction Fumarole Butte or The Hot Plug comes up from the hot breath of I 1 hope some of you IOU will he heed d theo the w For myself Im I'm plumb scared Into While wilile t dying conditions and waiting for tor the tho thermometers I scrutinised ed the damp sand in the og n-og tg which Was more open aid d 1 less 1 a lighter and them thelia on the floor r were the tracks of uz tiny Un bird which had hopped in into into to drink some of at those tho e little dangling dan dan- gling drops of water And sed With the bird tracks were the of a tiny mouse the toe pad at tho front With the to toes s dug Into the wet fret sand and tho heel pad back to the rear a A bird and a mouse visitors to slake their thirst at that most odd of all public fountains The trip was well worth the long BI six mile J e hike to Je get there ili e. e to the scale ot of the map Mt Belnap is not quite one on hundred miles mU from the Ule Hot Plug and andt yet t owl on that Jura pay day with wit no purple haze In the air tr tt it was wa as clear and plain q the tho not lOOt over tw ty miles mUes In the air of sea level There Was as a b on the top ot of the Plug but I 1 did not notice a bottle notes and messages In It w which lc th p-th W and 1 their own line Une or r two name game and Inq gate date of visit Debris Debrs of at visitations by the Boy Scouts were In evidence pipes p cracker bakes b les and rubbish and ash ash- f p pf camp mp fires around the base And nd how to come back to the tellow tellow tel tel- low who d years tears ago As I stood with my ear to the the c evice I heard em OW below and aRd suddenly I 1 ded the Vol e or of ply old friend Dill Bill the tellow who once paid tar for The T e and andl I yelled IS THAT YOU BILL And what aT aro 1 there fortIm fort fortIm Im down y Beckwith e he hollered back because use I lot lilt my subscription expire and its it's shur hell to bij be anywhere without The Chronicle p Ii B W h have ve plenty of re re- re P. P P P. P S. S S.- S. Were We're going to i print t tan an Issue on asbestos paver paper so that W we c n i send sand Bill one We hol hold no grudge against any py person who lets letsa a a. subscript s expire even evon we wedo do know he suffers urteTa the torments of at I th the d d |