Show i BRINGS BRNOS WORD VORD OF ew ewh evs ot of the discovery disco of a new r c at the the Craters of ot the Moon n Atonal i monument In Idaho V w- w brought today by C W Wt trots l roa rOHI highway hi engineer of ot the thel thet t l States bureau of public roads ro Accompanying Mr Mir Cross Crossw Cro w w IL If I T- T T Stearns Steams to geol geol- ol dt at f the United State Stater 1 I k d I e survey who specialized In la 11 having ing made Inv Investigations In JIll Hawaii and Java The Th cave eave In which the the foot toot ot of otI ofa ofa I a wh white te man had perhaps never trod until last lut week is near Sheep rail and 5 s 10 30 feet In height 40 feet f ct in length lena and 20 feet in width The Tho ceiling is b In tones of ot preen green blue bhe and Although no modern m en n Is believed belle to have entered the cave there were evidences that a IL bear hall hat had visited the place Mr 11 Sterns the national monument qt to estimate the age ace ot of thi Volcanoes had been In hi at five different periods In hie Investigations Investigations- Mr 11 Sterns Sterne cut a alpine pine tree groin out ot of Ina now new lava la counted the rings rine under und T a high powered micro micro- ope opo and decided that the th tree treo w lS is years yeara ears old He lie explained t that hat It would take at least st 1 a 0 for soil to acc accumulate In Inand which the tree could t rt to grow and these thee two facts n would show tut t at the most mOEt recent lava 3 flow w from from to 1000 years ears old Mr Cross said that what are thought to have been old Indian tr trills lIs to the the e water holes hoies in tic te monument were found Many Ian c s g ho said have lavo been formed by y the tho ho crust cooling and the tho lava away The caves are font 10 to 12 U te feet t high h and from GO 60 to feet teet long lone buffalo bonds on s were vere found in the caves although It Is raid eald that no buffalo h had ld been seen In the district with with- withIn within in the memory of ot tho the white man The purpose of ot the trip made by Mr Cross Croat was the location of ot a proposed ed federal aid road from th the central Idaho highway which crosses the tho northern end of ot the monument to the southern bound bound- bounda ar a distance of ct 12 miles mile The report of ot Mr Cross for tor the I proposed road Is s being prepared for tor forwarding to D C C o |