Show solomons cave I 1 send you by today to days day das s mail a hasty sketch of our new discovery I 1 have just returned from illg ilig ring king solomons solomon cave up ophir gulch of the existence of which you are arc no doubt aware as it has been menti mentioned oneO in some of the thie territorial papers yesterday Yeste iday morning however four of ug us determined upon further investigation to satisfy a ourselves if possible of the extent of the cave the party was made up of lon lou whittier geo Barri barnard ard babell abe echols and your informant we outfitted d with mth three drays days rations blank biank blankets et 9 candles candies ca adl es pitch p tc pine for torches twine a compass and in short everything necessary to prosecute a thorough tho Kough exploration we reached there P at 3 oleic ick lck and proceeded to the tho middle middie chamber as it is called where we made camp and atter alter an hours rest began our labors labom at the end ef of the middle chamber are a number of long narrow passages into the largest ef of these we insinuated ourselves one behind the other and by sometimes crawling and again li riding room to walk half hair fiala erect we worked our way for over feet when we suddenly emerged into a most magnificent chamber the ceiling of which we found to be about thirty five feet high the length of the room eighty six feet and width fifty lour feet As we held high our flaming torches the walls walis presented an appearance of beauty and grandeur it seldom falls to the privilege of mortal eye to witness at first sight we were impressed with the belief that this wonderful chamber had been biven cutout cut out of the solid rock by human hands for it did not seem possible that nature mature could by accident form so rare a tern tein temple tempia pla pia with such a wonderful display of architecture beneath the surface of the earth after somewhat recovering from our s surprise fonse we proceeded to examine examine minutely this strange place immediately 0 to o the right of the en trance entrance and in tile the corner close to the wall we discovered indications of an old fireplace awve several m 1 small pieces of charcoal were picked up and the blackened flo fleoras floo oras raswell well weli ia as the smoke stain 0 ed d wall furnished evidence that in this hall some persons or persons had at one time taken refuge continuing n g along the right side wo we hadnot had not progressed over foi notty fotty ty feet when we met with further evidence of or the cave having once been the hiding place of men leaning against the wall was a huge plate of copper fifty seven inches in length and thirty six inches in width and about abou tone one fourth of an inch in thickness this we took to be a shield as near the he center were two holes eight inches apart used doubtless for inserting a strap t through which ahi ch t to 0 slip the arm it was wrought by hand as the marks oava of a sledge or other heavy instrument were plainly visible on it on discovering ng tl this u is a beelin feeling akin akia to fear came over the arty party ad and we were almost ready to teat beat a hasty retreat and leave further investigations to those who delight to explore tombs an and resurrect the remains of those who lived in the ages of long ago when it was intimated by one of the company that we might possibly find hidden treasure or trinkets of value stowed away in some nook or corner and preparing 0 new torches with increased energy we renewed the search about ten feet beyond where the shield was found and eight feet from the floor was a eav cavity ty in the wall ten feet in length and over river high placing 0 a few large stones one upon the ot other her ber barnard climbed up and held his light in to see sep the extent of the opening but he immediately turned toward us with a fricht frightened 1 ened look andl and it was some seconds before he coulder could ex plain the nature of the discovery he had made but when he assured us that in that niche lay a petrified giant all were eager to get a look at him and one after another we climbed up and arid gazed in the ope opening it had every indication of being natural at no marks of tools were visible within it in the cascade well in the first chamber area number of similar caverns lut but not so large two of the party being hoisted up to take the dimensions of the tile monster man he was found to be nine feet seven and a calfine liala inches alesin in length thirty eight inches across the breast and lind two feet deep he was covered from head to foot with a coating from one to two inches in thickness ess similar to that found on to roofs jofs and ani pillars in a gumbei of places hard as a limestone and along the sides this caging easing as it appeared at first to be had united with cherock the rock on which it lay leaving this relic of the stone age orsome other distant awe age age 11 literally encased in a coffaa of stone A helmet helmel of brass or copper of ste gigantic g a tie tic proportion proportions si was wasi upon lii ill his head a d w which h icil tell the corrosive elements of time had sealed to his brow itis it is the most perfect petrifaction I 1 have ever seen soon 0 the o wable body being as solid a 3 though cut out of a block of marble marbie near this rare specimen were found two mammoth spear heads eighteen inches in length and six inches in width at the ilie widest point oneff one of them was in intended t ended to be fastened in a handle after the jhb fashion of an arrowhead arrow head while the other had a socket of silver into which to insert losert a huge bage pole or andle handle Ii near by on the floor was picked up a large hook madlof made of bone probably manufactured from the tusk of some leviathan of the land which one orio of the party suggested was ws a portion af the war accoutrements of the giant as such a weapon on oil the end of a fort forty foot pole in the hands of ac active t lve ive attendants ts would be bon boa a success in dragging out the victims of the great warrior as fagu fast he slew them and by this means keep the way clear on the wall near the tomb werm were discovered some strange looking letters or characters of some kind t and the picture of three ships apparently having been executed executed with a sharp pointed instrument there were no figures resembling ours though I 1 have no doubt the tho writing if interpreted would give the history of the giant king of the cave whose body lay jay stone dead before us enclosed I 1 send i a facsimile fac simile of the drawings of the ships and a portion of the Writ writing ilig on the wall the ships have three masts the middle one being only onik two thirds the height of the outside J T 1 mas masts ts on tile the opposite side of the room from this we discovered a huge flat stone leaning laining against the wall on the smooth surface of this was also the engraving of a ship much ial lal larger than the others othen and nea near ithe the bow the picture of a large larg e ri man a fi 1 wit with spear in hand apparently made to represent an explorer landing f and taking possession of some country accompanying this is a copy of the drawing drawings though done don in a rough manner on rei removing this huge stone a passage W y four feet high and in some p elbs weg meg wider than that led us into a small chamber about thirty feet square squar ei though more interesting than any of or the others hero here the party became almost wild at dt the strange and curious things bones of men at least nine feet in stature we weme were found near the ent entrance rance rande among i which were two or three skulls near ear the center of the room was a primitive quartz crusher in the shape of a large stone hollowed but like ilke a mortar around this were verea a number of tools large and small and one large sledge lay on the edge of the mortar just as the workman lefts leftrict it when he eo struck his last blow at least a thousand years ago the i tools so far as examined were found to be copper though tempered as they appeared to be almost as hard ahr d as steel considerable quantities of rich quartz specimens were picked up and about a half ton ot of fair looking gold quartz lay in a corner it is the opinion of all of us that the quartz is taken from some part of the cave probably further on in the mountains and these giants were at work there W when hen a slide from the mountain above the eav cave e filled up the mouth of it as it is plain to be seen that the entrance at one time has been at least thirty feet feekin in diameter and the opening now very small has been formed by the slide gradually slipping into the outer chamber which is half full fall of mountain debris deblis another doorway was found leading t into a room which we think contains the special money deposits of the miners but all hit were too much excited to make further investigations till tomor to mor row the Tho cave has been pree preempted pre empted e imp i ted led and every bone tool etc et cwill be carefully pres preserved e arved and it is ii not improbable that some new light will bo be thrown on the time and manner in which this queer queen people z found their way to our land I 1 will send further particulars in a few days I 1 return to the cave this evening and wine will pop op and there will be a sound of revel r ry y irk in those 6 ola old halls tonight to night in deer lidge lodge mon Hon montana lanct lanot inde clet ident oct 11 u new york boasts that its eleventh eleven til avenue six miles miler long one hundred dundr id and aed fifty feet from curb to burh laid in small smail stone three feet deep tolled into acorn coal pact solidity is the finest boulevard in the tho world and it probably cost more than i any other I 1 thanksgiving hymn r n the eagle he Is a veranice very tery nice bird s for the battle battie time ot of the free bat when tho the sweet notes of peace are arc heard beard oh the turkeys the bird for me my boys the turkeys the bird for me r J the popular view of new york tork juries juried Is illustrated by this remark from the portland press tuesday eleven men sufficiently ignorant to serve on a agry had been found to act in the trial of boss tweed they should have been able to a have found one tone more idiot in the creat rea city of N stork wednesday the idiola did tol toi tolerably embly well notwithstanding A dentist was sued cued in new hampshire court the other danfor day for pulling gout out all the teeth in a cavys jaw while she was under the influence of ether ethen when he be had previously been instructed to pull only certain one elve five thousand dollars dam dim ag age ago was a aal n cd li tt i ns as the plaintiff was tras daod dead the jur 30 20 would bo be about right tight |