Show caves cave valuable apart from scenic splendor the limestone caves at in new zealand bring tourists from every part of the world corid to see the extraordinary beauties of the glow worm cavern with its myriad stars of phosphorescent fire the mendia mendip caves of Somerset shire and the peak cavern of derbyshire england have thousands of visitors yearly and so has the mammoth cave of kentucky the mammoth cave had quantities of saltpeter in it which were dug and carried away for making gunpowder but many caves have a value apart from that of mere scenic splendor in the bush country near te mutt in auckland a huge cavern ir IL which la is a wonderful deposit of akabas alabaster ter has been recently disco discovered vered another cave called the carlsbad ern discovered under the Ganda Gauda loupe mountains in new mexico has great beds of rock salt sit this place Is said to rival the mammoth cavern for size one chamber being halt half a mile long four hundred feet wide and more than three hundred feet in height |