Show CAVE CA VE 20 MILES LONG J Woodsmen Report Discovery in inthe inthe the Olympic Mountains Strange Sights In Gr Great t Cavern Described De De- scribed by Two Men Who Who Stumbled Stumbled bled Upon Entrance to Place r I Quite by Accident Seattle Wash John Jonn John M. M M Gilgore and Robert Reid woodsmen came cama to Seattie Seattle Seattle Seat Seat- tle tie to report their discovery of a gigantic gi gantic cave In the tho heart of or the Olympic Olymp Olymp- ic mount mountains ins In the n northwest part vart of the state stated They describe the cave as as s being about twenty miles long and half hat a amile amile amile mile wide in places with large rooms filled with amazing things It has an entrance and an exit and lies In a region region region re re- re- re gion easy of ot access The woodsmen were cruising or measuring standing timber when hen they found the the entrance entrance to the he cave on the th south side of a f small mountain Procuring Pro Pro-C curing lanterns and supplies they ventured ven yen in and spent fourteen hours wand wandering ring from room to room finally coming Into nto daylight twenty miles further fur fur- t flier ther er south and about one mile lower ower in altitude They say ay say they are the Hie first white men to enter the cave although Indians In In- diane dlan or prehistoric m men ll may have havel l lived ved there ther for there are arc numerous numerous human skulls and bones In one ono room room near the south entrance Tho entrance Is high e enough ough to pc permit permit per per- mit a man to walk walkIn In In ere erect t. t Once Inside Gilgore and Reid found themselves in a room with a low Jow ceiling but which gUsi glistened ned like ilke glass glass glass' glassand and was and and damp They found the room to be studded d with stalactites stalactites' ten tn t to twenty feet pr protruding from the U sides of ot the w wills walls The floor was composed of damp red sand and near one side w was s a small stream its bed worn out of the solid soud rock Fifty feet further the low ow room spread out into a court and another larger room room with a high ceiling Over tho the floor and under the flat rocks ran myriads of lizards and snakes It appeared appeared ap ap- ap to be the wintering place for all the reptiles reptiles' in the Olympic mountains moun tarns The lizards were of f every every land species and of every size Hurrying through this cavern Gilgore Gilgore Gil- Gil gore and Reid holding hands bands for mutual mutual mu mu- aid and to assure each other confidence confidence con con- entered a wonderful l rotunda with a dome and nd w walls ot vit white te silica or lime rock They estimated the length of tb this s room to be close clos to td 1000 feet and from 2000 to feet teet wide The ceiling ranges from GO to fe feet t on the sides to several hundred feet In the domed center The l light fight from the lanterns would not penetrate to the top of th the domed coiling ceiling This room w was wad bare tiare as faras' faras far faras faras as as' as curios were concerned It reminded remind ed ed them of a monster ballroom awaitIng awaiting await await- ing guests The floor was level level Following tho general trend of theca the ca cave ve the men worked their way for two miles ver rocks across across abysses and around r und pools of water of unknown depth until they came upon a yawnIng yawn yawn- Ing lug 1 pit 11 Hero they filled one ono lantern with a a fresh supply of oil on and threw the empty bottle Into the pit Reid Red counted 30 before tho the bottle vas was heard striking the rocks on the bottom bot hot bot tom torn of ot the pit Once around this tbs deep black hole the men found easy going and came camo upon another room filled HUed with a odor This was believed to tobe tobe tobe be produced by sulphur bearing rocks In tho ho formation of the walls It was very nauseating Believing that they would have to turn back because of this gas themen the themen themen men suddenly emerged Into another room In they felt fresh air blowIng blowIng blow- blow Ing lag In a strong current through the cavern They rhoy were unable to to trace t tu te orl origin ln but butera vero era fairly carried by ho nHi Into another s separate c. c room loom where the lanterns were not needed because phosphorous rocks I 1 ma made e everything as bright as day Theair The Theair Theair air was fresh and sweet here bere evidently evident evident- ly lr coming from an aperture in the side of the mountain Ten minutes more brought them Into Into Into In In- to a room where many skulls an and human hUeman hu hUe hu- hu man bones lay in small piles as if the room had been used as a vault for the dead Stone arrow heads and stone ston mortars mortars mortars' were observed Hand in hand the two men hurried along and after more than 14 hours came upon a straight low arched passageway and saw daylight through a hole bole so tiny it looked like a keyhole The hole was really the south entrance entrance en en- trance of the cave and the discoverers discover discover- ers found themselves In the tho mountains again and fully tully 20 miles from camp With a party of students from the State university they will again visit the cave and obtain pictures 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