PURCHASE OF A VOLCANO.
FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. New Yoke, February 27. The Standard Oil Company havs bought Popocatepetl, in Mexico, for five million do'lanß, with a view to extracting sulphur. [Popocatepetl (or the smoking mountain) is a truncated cone with a large crater, about thiea miles in circumference and 1000 feet deep. It is 17,783 feet higb, being one of the highest mountains between th.i Bay o? Panama acd Bshiings Straits ]
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1903, Page 3
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71PURCHASE OF A VOLCANO. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1903, Page 3
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