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Show ' A California Volcano. ' The Inyo County Register furnishes the following: Now comes George M. Clark, our justice of the peace, with some reliable relia-ble testimony concerning that alleged volcano near Mammoth. He says there is something of the kind there for a fact, having seen it himself. It is located near the apex of a lofty volcano cone some six miles from the old town of Mammoth. Climbing to it early last week, he and others found a hole there some three or four feet in diameter. At times smoke, then again steam, as if from a deep mining min-ing shaft, was curling gently up from this hole. There was no notable rumbling or rushing noise, or anything ia particular to terrify anybody, except the certainty that it was nature's laboratory below that was producing this smoke and steam and not man's. The hand could be field over the crater indefinitely without suffering from heat in either steam or smoke. . A stone thrown in continued its descent until its knockings against the sides grew so faint they could be rto longer heard. This in-. formation comes to us . at second hands, but it is reliable. The new wonder , is 'about forty-five miles distant. from this place, from which, were it anything like a first-class volcano in full blast, its light and smoke could be seen. |