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Show ARIZONA'S ICE CAVEs! ' 1 A company has been organl..,.. to n practical uso the lc northern Arizona, it exrlrJ,'' enough Ice tan bo secured t ,v during the summer months r!i ,tp Ihe towns nlong tha lino of 11, i' To railway ' lll U. The mnln len cav e Ilea at tk. v Claik's valley, nbout fouri.f M southwest of riagslnrf. Trm " mention of It was made by LI.!,."? Hill, who headed nn explorlnJ K tlon through northern Arlzonj w crn California. Utah and Cowl."5 ly In the '49i vWadi)fc Ho speaks o 'on Immense A sure, where nature has storM ' tons of Ice." And vv here we av "' part way Into tho Assure , " "the change from the terrlBo Jul. I1 was so quick nnd Intense a t many of us severely ill. Indeed a not less than 60 degrees drop i7 perature which wo encountered i course of perhaps twtnty tnlrmi. ' our descent." la Until late )cars few persons vi. the c-iv os. I'ntll last August th,! cave had been penetrated t ad..' only !00 feet. m Then V XI. Dulton of N'e otk eeeded In eruvvllng through a i,J crovlco and found the cavity widening until It grew Into a c much larger than that near the, fice. Ho found several smaller a lending out of tho largo one, all , most solid Ice. Dultoii Is nt the head of th8eonu which Is planning lo put to commn ure the Ico In tho eaves ji, , planned n roid to be built loth(t where the Ico will bo mined er rl"d out, nnd he declares that aiw put of sevcrnl thousand poundage. day may bo secured rhocnii n. Cor. N. V. Hun. w |