Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — A Burning Mine. [ARTICLE]

A Burning Mine.

A correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal, traveling from Bismarck to the Little Missouri, saw a burning mine. He says: “It gives off so sulphurous an odor that I at first thought the heat due to the decomposition of sulphides. But the glow is ’•ed; little sulphurous acid is formed; you can stand over the crevasse without fear of either burning or •buffocation. Sulphur is volatilized and recrystalized on the edge of the crevices. There is no . smoke; the air quivers with the heat. The burning area is from ten to fifteen rods square, and has been on fire since the first visit by white men, and no one knows how many centuries before. It is only one of a number of fires that are known on the Bad Lands.” The writer goes on to say the Bad Lands aae probably the ashes of extinct coalfires. Colorado has no “Sleepy Hollows,” but has plenty of material' for such a place. Its moontHinx are full of Can-yawns.— Pittsburgh Ttygruph. . ' ' - ' ' Hock Hill, 8. €.—Rev. J. 8. White, says: “I used Brown’s Iron Bitters for general debility. It restored me to strength and vigor."