The truthful relation of careful investiga-…

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e been measured and explored. The truthful relation of careful investiga- tion is more marvelous than the strange stories of the Indians who have told tales of the won- ders of the land where one volcano becomes silent and 100 new ones send out stones, sea- weed and sulphur. The exact information comes from Col. D. K. Allen, editor of the Arizona Sentinel, a civil engineer, who was commissioned by the Mexi- can government to make a survey of the con- cession to Senator Gonzales of about 200,000 acres of mineral, timber, agricultural and graz- ing land in Lower California. With his party of sixteen men in four boats, he left Yuma on September 12th, and in four days, two of which were spent on the Colo- rado and two on Hardy’s Colorado, a branch of the main river, reached Lake Mejor, where the survey began. In an intense heat of 115 degree in the day time and 95 degrees at night, the surveying party advanced until before them stood the sulphur mountain, rising in pure yellow from a spur of the great Cocopah mountains. The cone that sends back the sun’s blazing rays in their own hue is about 150 feet high. The sides are not smooth, great boulders of clear sulphur, tons in weight resting on others.