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Show Oregon Caves Are Opened GRANTS PASS, ORE. The Oregon Ore-gon caves recreational area near here, which were closed during the war years, will reopen late in May under the national park service. Harold B. Say has been appointed general manager of the resort. The caverns were discovered in 1874 when Elijah Davidson, an early settler, shot at a bear. The wounded wound-ed bear disappeared into a hole in the mountainside, and Davidson followed fol-lowed with a pitch torch to find a great underground world. Before the war, increasing thousands thou-sands each year were taking the 19-mile 19-mile drive to the caves up through the timbered Siskiyou mountains from the Redwood highway. The weird and beautiful underground under-ground chambers and the Swiss chalet lodge, in a canyon at the mouth of the caves, are expected to break all attendance records as the travel season opens for 1946. |
