Show A mammoth cave gave in shasta j j i NINE VAST subterranean CHAMBERS RS 11 D butler of shasta county cal informs the oakland transcript that a vast cavern or series of caverns have been discovered upon his ranch sixteen miles east from cottonwood station and about eleven miles from the sacramento river the ground immediately surrounding and adjacent to the mouth of the cavern is a plain although not far off is a ran range 9 e of high hills bills A stream filled with trout runs below the cave which enters into battle creek greek the dividing line between shasta and te on the north of shasta side and in the center of the ranch in nell doll is a spat where the earth has as it weme were fa fallen failen llenIn in or as our informant expresses it a break down this opening or aperture ia is about forty five feet across and twenty feet in ien jen length th the sides are nearly perpendicular perpendicular A bueki bucki i ellis lills eye e tree shoots from the bottom of this hole to the surface down this declivity ity our informant let himself by clinging to the branches of a tree at the depth of twenty feet by torchlight two avenues are seen the one entering from the north nort h the other from the south the latter was the only y one entered by mr butler and companions companioni this underground corridor is in dimensions from twenty to twenty five feet in width and six feet high immediately beyond however the explorers entered a grand chamber this was thoroughly inspected and found to bo be no less than three hundred feet by sixty in size and of immense hight the rock scein seemed to be mainly of a reddish cast but other colors were seen stal sti and stalagmites mites of huge size and of all the hues of the prism abound gnats are the only living tenants of this silent subterranean chapel from this grand chamber chap chamber ber eight other rooms of various dimensions were explored in one of them was found a pale paie spring of delicious water partially ally aily burned brands were discovered showing that the indians had plu piu bably babiy ten anted the tho evern many years v go 0 mr hir butler hw hta no douht doubt that tory vory many other rece recesses ses will soon bo be explored in this direction As ad was remarked above little has hns been done toward the exploration of the underground passages on the north side from the base of the surface depression but professor carr will soon be down in those mysterious depths searching with his torch for hidden treasures as assiduous assiduously lyas as did ever diogenes Dlo dio genes lantern in hand search for an honest man and col E J 1 lewis too has already learned of the whereabouts of cal mammoth cave bave and he is to go there soon throwing down his california codes for the nonce and getting into the ground before his work as a politician is finished E ex x |