| Show 4 WONDERFUL STREAM ANTES COFEK AFFORDS CHANCE FOR ADVENTURE boatini MB 1 toby by thre hoy it vi vule sitiel I 1 file lie tort l rt that much it Hll iddon iddo ln n lur four bounds bu nl 1 I euial lable link alolf and ail rui nn libb I 1 V E it A L beeks ago a pennsylvania 4 exchange printed a description of the curious cavern or sinkhole sink hole on the farm of john engler in noce alle nalle since that time photographs P li hive lixie xie been made of the interior of a still more remarkable eink cink hole on the property of mr air george sanderson in I 1 the angest creek gap rills sinkhole sink hole Is but one ono of a series located within a stone stones a throw of eich other any one of which Is verv ier interesting the hole 1 tn ili which were nere taken for or grit la is a rod or more bouth of the big spring that forms the lie held of antes creek its depth delith Is gibout CO 50 beet ind i in thie monster chisin ch stands a broken wall of rock that liae has the appear appearance anc of bome some day having been shaken asunder under b an greit trees grow out of the bottom of the hole it la Is a slight task to reach the bottom oi of f the cairn for i x quite well worn morn pith affords the curf curious utis an opportunity to investigate once on the bottom with wl ill the black jagged rocks towering far above aur our head the novelty and gran doar of this natural wonder onder A breaks noon ou oil do down n in the d irnest corner of the cavern Is i t pool of dark green m water ater fhe rhe depal of this pool like the spring referred to abo above e I 1 Is ver ner d dp dep ep ind a false step or a i plunge would send one to hid ida doom pen cannot depict it e a description of this rockbound hole in thee the irth which A aich isoni Is equalled equal led in wondern on dermont nt b sever il othe ilk sinkholes sink hink holes v thin a radius of a quarter of a mile from hh hig one one of the other sink holes a little farther south iq 1 over 70 feet deep with sides so precipitous cip itous that one cannot make the descent without Ait hout the aid of ropes in order to eteh c a glimpse of the green pool that ileo ilso forms the bottom of this hole one must cling to tol the that prow grow over its rock ribbed sides but few persons have ever eier gone to the bottom of this hole mot visitors being satisfied with a glance into its threat ening depths from the outer rim it is said that fine trout lia have e already been caught from the ill pool at tho the bottom of thia this hole this IF Is not discredited for or the water that forms the pool goes to create antes creek at the big spring a half halt a mile below and that the underground channel Is directly connected connect fd with these great holis holls Is universally conceded says a writer in pennsylva Penney lva nia grit it Is told of 0 the late george W youngkin Young min esq I 1 that when hen a boy together with several jui juvenile enile companions be he went to the bottom of one of these eink holes and with the aid of a pry made an opening clenti large to admit the passage of a body this passage opened into the unexplored regions of a great cave and into this the boya boys scrambled with the aid ald of 0 torches they were enabled to explore the wonderfully NN wrought rought subterranean passages mr air youngkin Young min declared that they walked in a southeast erly direction for beirl a mile nuking viking ri their way may over mer walls of rock and long the green crested im the root roof of the cavern he said m wis mis is i t picture of grandeur the ras from front their torches revealing the most beautiful stalactite formations that ill the m a ide by mr air Young nuin and his bo frields waa was repeated Is not in but that the wonderful underground scenery Is kt et to be beheld by thoe who will undertake the taek took is without a doubt in which sinkhole sink hole it was that the boys found the en to the cave ie to not definitely known knon although it Is generally bell pied that it Is the one located nair the R idich a gap road hero Is an opportunity for some of our local adventurers to distinguish themselves acho anho to knows perhaps some rome of the wonders of famous lura caverns ewalt those who ho will nill successful pen etrata this underground opening the in ater know kno n ie ria the big spring I 1 which forms the head of antes creek Is of itself a curiosity the great body of green tinted begins at the foot toot of a sh shin irp circular la in Us its form with an opening to the north through which lich the suddenly freed waters start on their u course to the river ahme miles awa anna there Is no nibbling or commotion in this spring it is but an outpouring of the N water ater that for nearly five miles through nose valle mikes its wa na river riverward far underground der ground one NY I 1 tat week neek a measurement brement of the depth of this spring was nas attempted A rope nearly nearl feet beet in length was obtained to one end of which was fastened a hieak bock of iron this iron vas dropped into the va water ater ind the rope gradei aily and stead 11 plied out down down down domn went ent the iron until every inch of the feet rope was as submerge dyet yet it tray yav nt v hid hot ruck bottom ahls test but i adds another alei ent of render uander to the man inan curo aties that abound in this antes creek 1 kven nell it lous as an opan up sart aln nearly beirl three miles before emptying empting into the arver the water of the th antia creek dellom freezes vor for first mile nille after gushin ing out ot of the tile mountain at 1 the bis big spring the never neer freezes this ili 1 undoubtedly due tile to the high temperature of the water caused by its long underground course the theory advanced b some la Is hit thit there Is an underground der ground lake of considerable tude beneath that section of nipponese enose N valley alley in which these sinkholes sink holes appear whatever the cause u ina be autes antes creek and its curious caerny are t source of much interest A to those who are scientifically inclined and to the adventurer or explorer exnor er the sinkholes sink holes afford a wide field of research and anti practice |
