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Show Cave Without Bottom in Colorado Hills In the Sangre de Cristo'- range in Colorado is Marble cave, - an unexplored unex-plored and bottomless pit .. . . Scientists are of the belief that it Is the opening to a volcano that was active many millions of years ngt: In' the same range-" is the Medano river, known as the "disappearing river," for It Is a stream In one part of the forest and then it disappears to reappear many miles away. The Sangre le Cristos are remarkable remark-able for many other freaks. Twenty miles south of Westell!! is h vast red sandstone bed where fossils are found (jf early sea life, indicative of that far period -when this great inland range of mountains was the bottom of the sea. This bed has" been of especial j interest to-geologists nnd scientists, I and students intorei-Vd in the formation forma-tion of the world. i The range is the longest, straight-est straight-est and highest in the United States and the most spectacularly colored, with 100 peaks from whose summit the snow never leaves. i |