Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1876 — Mount Shasta. [ARTICLE]

Mount Shasta.

A very remarkable feature of Mount Shasta is the collection of hot springs 200 feet below the top. The extreme summit is a steep ridge, not more, than 200 or 300 feet through, on a level with the springs, and composed of shattered lava, which looks m though any water felling in rwiir, ot formed by melting snows upon ijt, would immediately run out, 4hjaugh the cracks. There, is in the material nothing which, when brought in contact with air or moisture, would cause heat by chenlical action. Yet at the bottom of the steep ridge, which at the toot Is not more than 200 yards through, there is a little flat of half an acre full of hot springs, most of them very small, and the largest not more than three feet across. They have a temperature of 100 degrees, and their water is strong with sulphur and variot»minera]s. In some the water bubbles up violently, and there are openings in the earth from which hot steam rushes out with great force and considerably noise. One of these vents sends out a jet ot steam two feet in diameter. These springs and the earth around them retain their heat through winter as well as summer, notwithstanding the severe cold that may prevail there. On the Ist of October the thermometer was below the freezing point at both sunrise and sunset, and the temperature of the year there is probably —for we have no long series of observa-tions—-not higher than thirtydegrees, possibly below that figure. Immense masses of snow lie on the northern side of the mountains through the summer, and on

the northern side there is a living glacier. Notwithstanding the almost constant cold resulting from the snow, ice and high elevation. the great heat supplied from the heart of the mountain does not give way. The waters of these springs must be forced up by a power, which, though small in comparison, still suggests the mighty forces that piled up this cone toaheight of 8,000 feet above tbe adjacent ridges, and from its now extinct craters poured out tiie lava that covered hundreds of square miles with desolation.— Shatto Cawrter. ■■ ; > \ _ < .■ . I The following almost incredible statement is copied from the Providence Prew; “Hannah Percell carried away a few yards of cotton waste from the shop of B. F. Almy, a day or two ago, and this morning the case was tried in tbe Justice Court. The value of the waste was nine cents, and Hannah said she carried it home to wash, as she used it for neckcloths white in the shop. Hannah has worked for Mr. Almy nearly twenty years. Judge Randolph fined her one cent and costs. ” The Danbury Newt says “ this is about the meanest thing we ever read of 1” The New York market is greatly overstocked with oranges, and the choicest fruit is going a-begging. An old dealer saya he never knew oranges to be so plenty and eheap before- One man states thathe has already 8,000 barrels lying about in cellart, waiting a chance to go on the market, but steamers arrive in such rapid succession that the glut has jo rs' lief,