Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-07 | Page 5 | Ruby Valley, Nevada, Attracting Much Attention

RUBY VALLEY, NEVADA, ATTRACTING ICR ATTENTION While in eastern Nevada recently inspecting the Secret Pass and Harrison Harri-son Pass roads on the Ruby forest C. H Kendall was informed that as many as 800 settlers have "gone in" to tho Ruby valley to make homes This is a beautiful valley, lying between be-tween tho Butte and Goshute ranges on the east and the Ruby mountains on the west, and the view looking across It from the Ruby mountains' side is entrancing. Two or three bands of wild horses and antelope are usually visible and at thi6 time borne settlers were engaged in rounding up some of the wild horses to capture them In a corral, raising a great dust in their maneuvers. Not only do the younger horses fill out well when better fed and thus prove of value, but there is also usually some profit from the returning to their owners of horses or mules which have strayed from ranches and taken up the nomadic life with the wild band. Mr. Kendall passed Cave Springs, from which a large stream of water Issues through a subterranean passageway pas-sageway large enough to enter with a boat It is desirable to explore this cave, to learn Its size and other possible pos-sible points of interest. People regard it somewhat with awe. however, because be-cause of the drowning of two soldlerB from the old fort near there, who went into the cave with a boat for ihe purpose of exploration. How the accident occurred is not known, but their bodies and the boat floated out later. - - rr