Show ANEW A NEW DISCOVERY E T CITY may ath 1863 EDITOR DESERET NEWS I 1 I 1 sim SIR having beard of the discovery of a cave in this vicinity in company with a few friends I 1 went to visit it it lies about t three bree fourths of a mile southwest south bouth west of black rock cooee county and about two hundred 5 3 ards from rom the base of the mountain the entrance is about eleven feet wide five feet high and some seventy feet long the walls are perpendicular cular and of solid rock at one end of the cave we discovered an aperture in the wall and in order to pabs paes through it we had to get down on our hands and knees we then entered a place about thirty feet high fifty feet long lorg and six feet wide the further end of this tin s passage is elevated some eight feet above the mouth of 0 the cave we then began to descend and traveled along a passage some two hotd hundred d and seventy feet iong long four feet wide and varying from fifteen to se enty erty feet high with perpendicular walls on either side bide there were some eight skulls and other bones found on an the floor of the cave and some small bones on ledges of the wall the floor is soft and seems to consist of decomposed bones on the walls near the entrance are bome borne hieroglyphics of spears and animals something like mountain sheep which appear to have ave been drawn with blood the length of the cave is about three hundred bundred red and binet ninety feet yours respectfully JOSEPH GRIFFITHS |