New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-30
4 UOVDER or BESTERN COLORiDO.
MISS vERXoNA JARpEAr TiLL> OF CAV"
epIryDFyr WITH CRYSTALS.

,,,ee vrpyoyA JARpEAU TELLS or CAVE hIE
epLrypEyr WITH CRYSTALS.
Miss vcrnona Jarbcau. the popular 'onl,'''"''
hos inst returned to Ncw-lork from "es"'" 49,
tells an Interesting story regarding r"hhINao'c
contIv discovered in Western Colorado IN" "o"o'i
., witch rival those Of the famous Manho'h '"'" ~
Kentucky. 40 ,,. .old
. ,,t, ,tarcsrd must surely have visited America Dc
,o-e hts conception o. She and must also h'N' '
,Io cotiutry Of the White River. IN "es"r"
,.r ahou, FIVE miles above tho river ia 'hr ei' WI" "
,bo CANYON : the Identical cave d"'crio"i pS Wv
,. author excepting his exterior means Of ngr'S''
AZ the entrance which + In the fa'" vi "'s'
oucs beautiful stalsc,its Of mixed iim' ana 'rySa.
,mn,,,o, hang IA different lengths from Inc roo'
,u ,ho soor e. covered With stansmit's "S'"iinihs
,boir xli,t4n.ng points TO meet those hb''c' -"
,eau,lc, Of the ar" beyond d'N'1p''''' ~ "
also the horrors. All among ~" N"l't"'''' a."
-, ,cavec and pine ncedles-carred there P'c'""'',
-. mountain rats, 81 which there seem 10 ne ""'''
number. As one goes further into u" cave '''
ragninccncc Is intensified The explorer - '"'
,.,,o, -, fine entrance 10 a chamber with s'"s"'""
,o,io,s that have run on 10 one Sdc IKE III III"
mcnse cnrtnn or porilere Of pnr'Nt 'r'S'a.' mar
,n the most artistic s'yl". THIS i 'a'u W" ~
chamber and happy indeed would b" the "''" w.
c,uId awaken TO begin III" anna snch Sp''''o' "',
,.n,nc.rce d,d she fail TO realize the fact tha' "
was n cave " ,,. ,ou
,n, a slight incIn" and 60 into the salon OF IT,
,,ion hail: which looked more 10 INV cN's In" "
,nropsc bou1uct hall with ceilings ana "a''N S'"'
u,,h ewoIs-am.ihys'N. diamond. rnbIeS ''c'' ''''
r.e.c, bpck In brilliant varon, coiorcn f'SS '' 7
from Candles , 80, ,b,
~Lcaving this apartment we were ta"en Wy 80"
main psssagc and after travelling some ''o
,, some places on hands and knc's-ovcr o""'P
c,. and smy CRYSTALS we reached the chuah'' !"
,he lake This lalc Is 50 clear th"' "'"'s
s,.p,od into the water thinking was S'yP'"s v"
,olid rock Where you first So" the ihNe VIZ "
4, nrobolly SIX feet deep. but being Transparent
dinicult 70 tell where water begins on '"c wan,
every p4bllc and crcyicc IN the rock i II, p'
,,.nI os II there was no water. This lake mas oc'
,or.d hv means Of a small boat 10 III" distance VI
g 600 feet, and the hardy explorer only S'"pP "
cau.e of = passage too low for him to get 'hr""R"'
,u.,..o,,, o,,r stems into the main passage We
,c,c lnvcrcd down by "A rope ABOUT nn,hor d,
tr,vnr.iur sIjmV Watcr-wOrn riSshE'' W - ,,.rc
cen, of urolaby thirty feet, where v" ,"n,, ia,
.,od bY ,hc roar Of rushing waters .lI". ,s '
dcns,. b,ackncss Of the passage as W. ,acn.d II Is
tcrranran stream and wcr' mary Try one At last we
a thousand thunder storms all III o,, ratio hctwecn
,r t,c sircam ushing 1T II tremendous MI , ~
lis massive walls. We followed II ior I.dpe that OK
perhaps 100 % o dc sld" when had gone u,
f,r as his we stopped. first because wv .,r,,c, viii
any further and second because wa"
~" Al mi, poni nv mind reverted 10 r.a,s', nnS
hc i'r ,I ' rc,.. Was followed. that the fonn
tain Of fire. etc. would not be "u uht ,hc s,r"nm
curious Thing about tins cH direction from the White
piycr There we're eight In our PnrmH s % sncrImen
to the concn,pn t1n ' from III" roof and
Gs OF tho beautiful crvcrn will son change ~ ,Un
a cave Of Arabian Nights to Il WHY ''"''"'"
The cyac, location Of this rcmarkan" cay, n"
| sixty miles from Mcckcr bcyo"' ''''""''' ''