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Show Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Is Described JUNEAU, Alaska. July 30 (By Mail.) Volcanic peaks in the far southwestern corner of Alaska are in eruption this summer evidently for the benefit of a party of scientists sent by the National Geographic society so-ciety to study Mount Katmai, the greatest of Alaska's smoking mouu- tains, and its "Valley of Ten Thousand Thou-sand Smokes " Persons who have returned recently from the volcanic country' to the westward, west-ward, said Shishaldln Peak, on Uui-mak Uui-mak Island, in the Aleutian chain, was In eruption recently. They also reported re-ported it was believed Mount Balif on the southwestern Alaskan mnm land, also had spouted as the snow about the summit was coal black. When i he party of BClentlStS left Anchorage, Alaska, on their way to i he Katmai country, they said thoy believed there was little likelihood o! an eruption ihis summer and declared they were certain there was absolutely no danger attached to the Investigation Investiga-tion Katmai s last big "blow off" was in June. 1912. The party of twenty-six scientists is headed by Professor Robert A. , of the i nil , i - j ty of Ohio and soiur arc from Carnegie Institute. The re planning to make observations of the botanical, biological and geological affects af-fects of the 1912 eruption. In 1913 Professor Griggs headed a party of scientists to Katmai and returned re-turned with the announcement that the crater was tho largest on the globe and that near Katmai lay a great valley val-ley whose floor was dotted with thousands thou-sands of mouths vomiting gray vapory cas and smoke This valley. Professor Griggs named "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes." Instead nf ten thousand, it Is said there are literally lit-erally millions of smoking vent- Congress recently set aside "Tne Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" ae national property and it Is believed that some day it will be a second Yellowstone Yel-lowstone geyser field. Steaming Bpringa, it is said, will eventually take the place of present smoking vents. Professor Griggs and his party expect ex-pect to remain in the Katmai district until the middle of September. Until Un-til they return nothing probably wll: be heard from them as there is no direct, di-rect, means of communication. Mi -Griggs and her children accompanied the professor to Kodiak, an Island near Katmai. and will remain there durlnp: the summer waiting for him to return Moving pictures of the smoking mountain and valley are to be brought back by the party no |