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Show GHAXIIEl'll (IK LEHMAN'S j DESt 1UI.F.1) MY MRS. SIX'OU j I am spending a tew wp-k in White Pine county and have had the' opportunity of visiting the famous! Lt hman caves, and am wriiing this with the wish that many more people ! may take this tkl;ghUul trip. At Baker the hotel accommodations are very good, the beds comfortable and clean and the meals good and j reasonable in trice. Leaving in the j morning for the caves we found a ; stretch of good road, about three or j four miles quite rough and rocky. j Entering the forest reserve we j j came out on the government built road, as fine a road as one could wish ; winding around the hills up to the i mountains, with beautiful views all around us, at last reaching the little ! park at the entrance to the caves. Here is situated the Rhodes home, itheir little ranch lying at the foot of j the hills with the valley stretching I beyond like a beautiful picture. i In the distance can be seen the J : Meek ranch of 5000 acres with 2500 acres in alfalfa. Here is an ideal place j to camp for a few days or weeks as I you please, using your own tents or j ' I the little sleeping tents' on the ! grounds. ! Here is also provided a cooking camp, furnished with stove and cook- j ing utensils. In the background tow- ering Mount Wheler, 13.300 feet E above the sea, the highest peak in Nevada The perpetual glacier, 25 00 i feet in length can be seen from here. ; j Then the caves and their won- j ders. It 'is said to be much larger and far surpasses in beauty the Mammoth Mam-moth cave in Kentucky. Also the onyx on-yx formations are greater and more beautiful than in the celebrated cave j in Kentucky. j Here is the wonderful natural pipe organ, standing in a natural cleft with its hollow pipes reaching up j some of them nearly 7 0 feet high, When struck with the wooden mallets mal-lets these give out musical tones. The cathedral bells, on which we played the chimes of Adetse Fideles, except for one tone which was missing. Then the high towers and pillars, reaching up, some of them hundreds of feet in height. Of these the Patriarch Tower is the largest. The Tower of London is there, also the leaning tow er of Pisa, though this is comparl-tively comparl-tively small. Washington, Lincoln and Grant, each have a natural memorial pillar. 1 Some of the wonderful formations are the portieres, draped back as the names indicates, the Chenille curtain and the Navajo blankets with their i beautifully striped formations; the angel wing of pure white, the popcorn pop-corn mound and the peanut candy.of which you must not eat too much, the rose bush andt the wonderful chrysanthemum, chr-ysanthemum, the wonderful cypress swamp with its boggy ground and little standing pools of water; the glane stalagmites, standing like huge trees, with the vinelike stalac-. lites hanging down; the alligator swamp, similar , in formation to the cypress swamp with formations like a real alligator The caves have been explored about four miles and we spent about four hours there, but, of course, could not see half the wonders. We did not ex- j plore the "Fat Man's Misery," leaving leav-ing that for some of our fat friends to do, but we went through the Panama Pan-ama canal, over the. rocky roadi to Dublin, and climbed the Alps. There are of course, many more beautiful and wonderful formations, as Eden's bower, Madonna and child, the witch etc. Now, just a word as to Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes, who are in charge of the caves. They are surely the right ones for the place, very kind, courteous cour-teous and obliging, fully appreciating the wonders of the caves and! gladly showing and explaining every point ( of interest. It is rather a strenuous trip, but . one lady of our party is 70 years of , age and she made it nicely, but wear . your biking suit. Mrs. M E. Secor. |