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Show t'nrluns YolCLlf Region. The Virginia Enterprise of September Septem-ber :0th, has the following:'" - A gentleman from the Cerro Cordo mines tells us of a curious region in Owens Valley, called the Black Rocks, lying between the Fish Springs and the town of Independence. The country of the "Black Pocks'' is lerel and is completely studded with fantastically shaped masses of a black volcanic rock, rising on an average to the heighth of about eight feet above the surface. Among these rocks me holes-leading to cavernous chasms below the surface, many of which may be entered by men. During the troubles with the Indians in lvtil and Itoli, the ''Redskins'' used these holes as hiding places, popping pop-ping into them with as much celerity as so many prairie dogs, greatly to the mystification of the whites who were on the war-path against them, and who often walked over them without finding them, as they drew over the hole into which they descended a piece of the i black, lava-like rock with which the ground was thickly strewn. The Indians In-dians belbvc that when they die they will descend into these holes, and after many battles with rattlesnakes, lizards and wild bea-sts, will at last reach tbe waters of Owens Lake, through which they will pass by a large hole in the basin of the lakeintothe "hnpny hunting hunt-ing grounds,'' which are supposed to lie just beyond the shell of the basin and inside of tho earth They have many legends aixait volcanoes being seen in the vicinity, and of terrible spouting of hot water from ; the lake and rents made in the soil of the valley. |