Show VOLCANO ROAD OBJECT Largest Dormant Crater I In W World orId Would Be Accessible nO April By 23 23 By By The Associated Press Haleakala the House of or the tho Sun on the Island of ot Maul laul and the larg larg- largest largest largest est dormant volcanic crater in t e eI I orld would be more morp accessible to residents resident and tourists under the terms of a bill new being consid consid- con considered considered ld- ld ered b by the territorial legislature rhe The bill would appropriate 75 75 for tor the construction or of o II a a road from Makawao to the summit of the crater At present the crest IS reached after atter a 25 tulle automo- automo mlle automo-mlle mile ride rid from to Olinda the road ends From Irom Olin Olin- the da the ride is bv by hor horseback e The to the crater from Olinda Is on only I tight miles but it Is so precipitous and arduous that the trained mountain ponies require three thre hours and a half to travel the tight miles males over stretches ot of lava At the summit citizens of ot Maul hate Ita e erected a concrete rest house rest pith Ith sleeping and rating accommodations accommodations accommodations for tor twenty persons person perched on the very cry edge of ot the crater The numbEr ot of v to Haleakala has hao Increased appreciably since this building supplanted a that was nas as the only shelter provIded previously lv The Th construction of 01 the proposed road is e expected to result resul t In further increase in the number of ot visitors as the lie ot of the elgh mile eight mile t-mile horseback ride rId 13 deterred many persons from making the It ip Haleakala towers tower 10 feet above sea ea level lerel and the crater con COD contains con contains 19 I square mlle miles The cir clr- cir circumference ot of the tam ix is 20 miles and the tie crAter is seven miles long Ion and ind two milt miles wide The Th walls ot of the huge pow bowl al ale aie e almost Cortical and drop for about halt half a mile from the crater rim Sander cones rising in the crater appear as ant ant- anthills hills ant hills from the summit but bot the they are approximately feet high from th the bottom of ot the te bowl bona bo I The Thc usual descent from the th sum sum- summit cum mit Is made through tile the crater to the thc floor loor and out through Kaupo gulch bY bv the ditch trail |