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A Washington despatch of Juno 8 says : " There is nothing intrinsically improbable* in these statements," said Captain Clarence K. Dutton, United States Army, chief of the bureau of volcanic geology, to an , Associated Press representative who called his attention to the despatches received this morning announcing the volcanic eruption ib Sonora. "On the contrary, it is a matter of surprise that we have not had some volcanoes in our own territorywithin the historic period, or rather that; , we haven't had more, for ib is now known that Mount St. Helena, in Washington Territory, was in a state of activity and sent out large quanbitios of lava and ashes as late as ] 843. I can specify from memory a remarkable evidence of recent occurrence in soveral localities where violent eruptions have taken place. One is near Fillmore, in Utah ; another at the base of Mount Trumbull, on the border of Grand canyon, the third near Fort Stanton, N". M., near the Texas line, and another afe Grand station, on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, sixty or seventy- miles from Albuquerque.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 3
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181Official Opinions. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 3
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