Show 44 I 1 f 1 I 1 0 01 bv JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN NULL SAM has haa set aside T another another playground 11 tor 11 re s nieces and aapha nephews I 1 ibba ah or rather has hag made them the gift of a marvelosa barselou mar mars velona elou KU great cavern which bich seems 71 likely ely to a as great a i w I 1 natural lure wonder Us as crater amter luke lake or the grand can co ion on the bakic of dent deal it ge a proclamation nas has changed chanced bat at cave caa a into carlsbad no isa clowd monument ter to te be bure the national park rule tow tem b has U not at lacked tm of the first class there fa 1 the tt A ind ad cave care na ha dional park in south dakota this full Is a big eaver cavern just how big nobody knows and a it handsomely decorated there them in s a am smaller at cave of delicate beauty in sequoia national park the leae lewla to a and it chark cavern 1 in n montana mention and the Stion hime ione cavern in wyoming am re national T B but I 1 arlibe d lave an news to be in a hc claas el sea by y itself in extent size elite of chum bers a and nd of ornamentation for m example mule there them ts is one me chamber ot of which the length Is IB be tween mee helf half a mile and a mile its iti width t in nid places ces rpm to thip feet fact its ha trill belling g Is of unan unknown height blight the few alit s are cautious about estl mating mat I 1 all distance they fear ear the short and ugly word rd even a hard boiled veteran pit t ilk ilbe ur or willi i lee of the united states geological gueltig leal sury survey sur y prefers to talk in littering glittering generali alas lie ile e abbi 3 officially I 1 know n of no ie cavern al r w choat 4 th chamber uh m approach 1 in alia those a lloud rod oil t it or ali in variety beauty nd it I 1 1 or ol any cave heretofore d acri b d th ch bm b ambera m b era are phenomenal b I 1 in n at i ana a I 1 the deposits abid d earled a t 0 o 0 IT travertine ill in form iv or to be b or of unusual 1 I m as well ef I 1 as aa cenec 1 n ht 1 I 1 am con 0 1 vinced I U that I 1 in many or r repe file ct to it if ur or th or of afta heretofore low known in cave 1 IB 1 about 4 h of thirty t i all P tou of carlsbad lie d N al the or near out cat town mun and calle railroad dt point mit and about ten miles from 11 1 1 tie texas a line no the th anve 1 a Is in a the east eastern foothills thi 1 of ot the mountains th the entrance free un dahme is on a natural a and ba bench ah on a b bure moun tain tomalee slope about j 1000 ON feet above lite he road ad 1 in the 1 hallcy 11 Y cavern was di in ID ban 1101 th the a by I 1 L white and rise lons long they called it but bat cave because it Is IB the home of 0 binti innumerable carm 1 lints hi uld c 0 h fly evening ening rod and ter return u in tb the room pvn out an at at me inc thumb a tl hot ICO feet act and lid feet deep where the toot roof of a chamber he hab fallen in for far several lea a the main conbere con cere na lo in take lale out bat bar droppings pre lor for fertilizer eldh industry to IB still going on the carlsbad chamber of commerce IB 1 keen on an lite ile lilea idea of the he me cavern it tama talk of a mall hydro electric plant for lighting the tapping of a chamber by a ban horizontal let shaft for or a 1 new law entrance 11 the cutting ot 11 step and the fixing of guide ropes all are needed at tills this writing a trip into tile the cavern even with on an experienced guide 1 ia for the able bodied rod and level headed wily only the rivern cavern cannot very well be described at present there or are atal cv fral reasons on a small portion of it lias has been explored measurements tire lire gues guesswork work and the imagined imagination arme g gets etz active in a chamber GO large that a pou powerful erful flashlight reveals reveal neither ildea nor root may bitters are am no fixed fied names for the chambers and rooms the onty only name that arms beems to find ge gen cral fsr favor I 1 ia that of big roo room n for the largest chamber a so far found sir BIT white Is quoted as ren saving ing the big ROO room to Is approximately feet long and feet wite wie the physical and chemical action w aich has brought about this te casern and its decorations may be thus tried described the mountain let 1 Is composed 7 of limestone ulith n alch eon consists at chiefly ot of calcium to I 1 carbonate iii ft inter ater penetrating the time limestone di dissolves Nelva the alow calcium eZile cabo bonat note can lea it along and de posits it in the for form a of stalactites pendent roof formations formation and adalae a mites fl flor floor or farnall formations th the two unite to form pollare stalactite are called drip drips stones tures ironstones Iron stones 1 is ftp applied to formations ru it by water honing through a wall 11 abee these fo formations II fire are almost always white and it the mat caterini erini may be called IT travertine titia or z chere Is antly no limit to the still of for form the twin tin D DT domes T 1 in the a big be be room are probably fet aih hufh and ad 20 face acroca the ile 1 base tile if rlee fix from a ercal cut dark green mound d I 1 he crow cran 8 na hest la H so hohly iet alth slender der stalactites end and n in miles that one e could not bows pows through at u ath hout out destroying dest roving hundreds of at the clell dite formation forma tlona of the he C carlsbad cave C to date dale lire am unsatisfactory fit or 1 is prof reabon riar of itie file tul here T reproduced d the lower iowa gi gives n SH nation sunn of wine wee of the ow lot a in I 1 te f in a chamber called by s mime the cin erht i of ahe be gods code th this r im is corn pai pa I small call an anil the lie he tinn I 1 vhf caught a suggestion nf fo one of it the all I 1 in the background the upper picture eliom sun lu w of the forni aticus in the he nig big pon of x kemp group of at ullo oll leun Us no the totem tatem poll piles some lamine of take lite 01 a few feet wt in diameter tile rise to a 11 of feet or more mor in it the heck u ground r an Is the jAU dauirs irs of fald great met chamber live then them 1 in B or nf the he stalactites uhle ht at this po pt linni in some of BO slender it list they h ay I 1 break new k ui it I 1 touch anil and nh t xu th ani 0 I 1 it I 1 a b hard ard to how the chev ties cling to th the fellone illig drip stone gone and nd tatt no ne formation at al the a right of the pho u ff e e a t draperies drape alea of 2 many y kinds kind fringed d sit aw ince rea mv cur bains imi stage me cur cum henvy it y up trica trial cano cono plew putting together beveral ae stories etorlia of at trips into the cov cay ern are ample ex plo ban with ith ft guide lite 1 Is something ilk uke this the visitors altora vl are rc in lowered strad two by two we in a a guo enano buck bucket t to the hot tow tom feet below the but bata live to the east the nel cenec chambers ile he to the nest near the la do down hill mail and met alth ill fallen debris debris sold bald to be alveral hundred feet it deep halt bell a atle lie I 1 T fm of abe ira aam ba iches national M monument to preserve natural wonder e I 1 ts lt I 1 is mim m im foiada 1 shaft the lite 11 visitors pass under the natu net ral entrance here hem the lead national I 1 ament inona begins begin the flat first mile the pa passage ge attaya descends varies greatly in width sometimes the walls all or are not net more mom than feet apart often there them are am large chambers on either r side the decorations are noteworthy but am ar mediocre compared coin pared with those far the ther on thon then it a pit about feet deep rann clear ariss the passage the way then nice leads then through h a alor way geltch of 1 1 large ree the chambers ore of li which the tell cell 1 ing 6 are a of unknown wit height blight under foot there them 1 la a tangle of a enormous enor mour liin ime ettone blocks C considerably further farther on an nt at n do coln T 00 feet below the surface at t th the 11 en trance a three great chambers op open off 0 I 1 the he main hull bull the first be has not at been 1 measured it la 1 larger then than the see aee ond which 1 Is three times time the also of hie lie third which Is by feet fact th the a stalactites hang bung in thousands and if in a every how omi reaching bilog to the floor the are on not so BO numerous r half if an hour of hard trav traveling elint bew go the visitors torn to the big room aich la is a as remarkable for it if doral d oral blonn as for its 81 alze at th the further farther a end it of the he bla big room the line floor r d lops abruptly for about loo yea feel fam fl lots hole about feet across this 1 ie he T 11 11 1 oft place iam no an man bun ban a ex ag phil d or its to lie or lire ht he a small mall hote bote in the 0 floor af ahe 1119 room koom into hill walh halh mr W white hl te once are lowered are it feet lie ile found flood Iw athers end and halliar end and oil a stra tream of of clear walar T hitherto mammoth at n nitus cae in ken buky haa hem known knoon m the largest ba cae 1 I in the we world for that m annson there dum Is it hill bill in ill this Twi gives to make mak it a 01 al park it if passage mui chani or anre said aid 1 to extend for fee nine fee it allea if Cara caradini dind col acme 1 II 11 apparently more m extensive exien sive app antl it 1 li shut liuch more inore richly ornamented cr 7 1 nome of it if chambers are am much airier eliher cr crilla illg N s lure bit ani taken plenty of time to in do 11 asid J jal 1 1 in chaoul cave carl 1 cl I oham the th nice ago of mime me of nt the 1 larcer c full it at more ere ill lhnn 00 earil |