San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-07
SAN SABA COUNTY.

SAN SABA COUNTY.
ED. NEws:-Post Oak Sprin
| Il know no other name forit) ris
es in the bed of a small crock call
ed Post Oak. In its short cours
from the spring to the Colorad
River it forms some of the pref
test pools upon which mortal eye
ever gazed. Now we have arrive,
at Post Oak falls. At the edge o
the precipiee the water is divided
into two nearly equal streams by
jutting rock. One of the streams
by one leap, reaches n bench of it:
own making eighty feet below
while the other stream reaches the
same bench at three leaps. Boil
come together here, gather them
selves together in readiness anC
make a final, grand leap of one
hundred feet. For yards around
the fall is cloud Of spray il
which may be seen the rainbow
On the edge of the cliff overhang
cedar, water elm, and sycamore
! trees; while on its face are fern:
MOSES and needle grass. On tor
and behind the bench (Which
breaks the face of the cliff is a
spacious cavern. l christened
this the Devils Bath Chamber
In far corner of this chamber
there falls, in shower, a small
volume of water where his majesty
when he chooses. may take show
er bath. This water runs diago.
nally across the cavern into anoth-
er corner forming large pool Of
crystal, clear water, where if his
Satanic Majesty is not disposed tc
a shower bath may take plunge.
The walls of the chamber are OF
the purest white, and in the cell
ing of which can be seen myriads
of twinkling stars. The floor is OF
a creamy white, bordered with a
gold and blue fretwork of the most
exquisite workmanship. On the
left side, near the floor, is small
hole large enough to admit the
body of a good sized man, this
climbed through and found anoth-
er chamber whose floor was sci
with small cavities, each centain-
ing about a quart measure of peb-
les. The constant drip of water
into these cavities has worn many
of them perfectly round and given
many Of them a polish which man
has never surpassed. 1 secured
some specimens of these which my
friends pronounced as perfect mar
bles as can be found. This cavern
l called the Devils Marble Facto-
~ These caverns are certainly
worth a great deal of trouble to
see, but 1 warn their seeker to be
certain of his nerves, for the risk
in getting to them is very great
indeed. On the south side of the
fall about twenty feet away is a
bee cave. This the busy little in
sects have filed to OVERLOOKING, as
they have begun making honey on
the outside. Some enterprising
persons in days long since gone
By determined upon robbing these
bees of their wealth. Shut in on
one side by near two hundred feet
Of perpendicular rock, and on the
other by the Colorado river and a
bluff almost as formidable as the
first, he found the difficulties in
getting a ladder to the place very
great. The ladder was placed,
however, but alas, 1t was too short
by several feet; so ended the at
tepted robbery. In the eastern
part of the county twenty-five miles
from San Saba, rising from the
base Of a Texas marble bluff and
flowing some forty yards, then
emptying into the Colorado river,
is Sulphur. This is large spring
of sulphur water. This spring is
visited III the spring and summer
seasons by people from San Saba
Lampasas and adjoining counties
as a health resort The scenery
here is very wild. On the oppo-
site side of the river from Sulphur
the cliff reaches a height of some
two hundred feet above the rivers
surface, while on the same side OF
the river with the spring the
ground is so rough and precipi-
tons that it is a hard matter to get
to the spring on foot. This spring
is the property of T." Mckee.
Lemon Squeezer.
A good reliable thrifty town is