The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-01-18
ICE v IN MAINE.
Weird Caverns Where There Is fee the
Whole Year Around.

A party Of Norway and Oxfordladies
and gentlemen visited the ice caves of
Greenwood Wednesday of this week,
says the Lewiston Journal. These nat
ural curiosities are about a dozen in
number, and are situated some three
miles from the little village known as
Greenwood City. 1t is a good road
from Norway, to within a quarter of a
mile, of the caves, and we enjoyed
every part of the way.
The caverns are on land owned by
Eben Wentworth, and the entrance to
them is about two-thirds of the way up
Mount Split, rs he has named this ele.
walton. 1t is rather a suggestive if not
an appropriate designation. The path
to them lies through a heavily wooded
tract of land where there is no oppor-
tunity of seeing the surrounding coun-
try, and had it not been for Mr.. Went
worth, who acted as guide, it would
have been difficult to have followedt the
trail.
Having rested, we moved up the
mountain and soon reached the mouth
of Valleys cave, one of the largest OF
the whole lot. 1t is a double-storied
cavern. the lowest chambers being
some four hundred or five hundred feet
in length and about n dozen feet in
width. The exit is at the top of the
mountain. The upper chamber is
very much smaller and is connected
with the first by a passage large
enough for half n dozen to pass
abreast: This curve was named by
the late DR.. True, of Bethel, for MI.
Valley, Of Boston, whose daughter was
the first lady to pass through the en-
tire length of the cavern.
One of the W. is shaped like a
well and is from twenty to thirty feet
in depth. There are regular steps
which wind around the sides to the
bottom. Here are two chambers run
ming in opposite directions, one of
which leads nearly to Observation
Rock. 1t is called Snake Passage, and
to pass through it one is obliged to
on hands and knees. The other
chamber leads into a cavern which is
large and somewhat triangular, hay
ing several chambers, one of which
connects with Well Cave. The walls
Of this chamber rise upward some sew
enty-iivc feet OF more.
In II Of the caves ice is to be seen
all the year round. Our torches pro-
duced a beautiful effect upon the glas-
sy surface of the ice and the cavern
walls, enhanced by the total darkness
but a short distance from our lights.
There is an exit to the cavern on the
other side of the mountain and one in
to Amphitheatre Cave.
There are two great riffs in the
mountain, one running northerly and
the other in the opposite direction.
These are great curiositits and attract
attention of all who visit the caves,
and probably these riffs gave the name
to the mount.
Table Rock is the highest of Il series
of lodges or shelving rock that reach
nearly to the foot of the mountain.
The view from here is magnificent,
and is only cNcelled by that at the
summit. While a few of the party
were extended at full length upon it
looking down from the rock into the
great amphitheutre below, they were
startled by the exclamation of S. S.
Smith, who was seated in the ..pul.
pit" q small circular place in the
ledge:
Get Off from there. You don't
know where you are! You are way out
over creation
They drew back to investigate, and
found that they had been hanging out
some fifty or sixty feet in mld-air upon
a shelf of rock only five or six feet in
thickness.