An Active Volcano in the United States
By Editor
DURING recent days, an active volcano has broken out in Mount Lassen, in the north-eastern part of California. At first, the disposition was to treat the matter as a fake, as the mountain from which the volcano is belching is one of the snow-capped peaks, and consequently, there are not very many people living in that immediate region. But scientists have investigated it, photographers have photographed it, and it is an assured fact that the United States now has an active volcano of its own. There are evidences of volcanic eruptions in bygone centuries, in different parts of the mountainous regions of California; but none of them have been in action for at least two hundred years, so say the reports. Some people may think, because of the active volcano in this state, that it is not a very safe place to live; but there are very few of the inhabitants of California who would know anything about this eruption were it not for the newspaper reporters and photographers. California is a big state, and has an immense area of mountainous region where very few people live, as well as its thousands of acres of fertile valleys. Next week we may have some photographs of the volcano in action, and some further things to say concerning it.