Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-18
SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF
 IN ROMANTIC MONTEZIJMA

This is not strictly mining. but it is SO intimately connected with that in- dustry and the boys who first drive it. that is, the prospectors. that We con sider entitled to space on cur mining page. While at the big Mitchell camp a week ago, the distinguished Joe Chisolm remarked to the no less dis tinguished Gus Baron in our TO less distinguished presence let's start a counterfeit scheme in that cave down there" Mir. Palmerlee and the Review man hunted that cave up, nc because We expected to invest in couaterfei. goods, but because we naturally as- sumed that if Chisonlm and Baron had anything to do with it. it was likey to contain a moon shine joint. Gus said Il was just 200 feet from MT. LOgans tunnel MT. Logan kind ly directed us to the entrance. and. then some. We travelled about 1000 feet on hot afternoon and were huri- ing mental maledictions on to Gus. when We came to an immense slot in the earth, on the side of the gulch up on one Of the Mitchell syndicate claims. We were. panting and dis gusted with life in general and with Gus in particular, and came very near ly baking at the entrance of what looked to be a disreptable cayote hole. Now, we are glad we didn't For the first fifty feet we slid down an ir- cline sI.rew1 with dust and rocks. than we struck a level. We carried several drIed sotos with us for pur- poses of illumination. We walked back into the interior expecting 10 run into the hanging wall" at every step. but we did not abrade the cuticIe of our ancient Latin probossis on any hanging wall. We walked fifty feet in the light of our flickering glims. then fifty more, then a quarter of mile where We came to a pit in which pair of silver tips had evidently set tied some domestic difficulties. Then we stopped and set fire to our sotos. and the result was simply beyond the power of the pen to reproduce.
 The ceiling was a regular as that in the Copper Queen parIor and bout 40 fee thigh. From Q point direct ly above us, depended one o7 natures inimitable creation in lime On an i'm mense scale, which reminded us of the straw and zephyr beauties with which he woman used to ornament our un- pretentious sitting rooms away back in Indiana. while at our fee-. a stala- gnite of corresponding proportions and identical characteristics. stood up in evidence of the glorious handy work of the creator of all things earthly. A few yards further on, is what is knowE as the music stand. We rise some 15 feet on a natural incline, where we rest on a platform. some 60 feet wide. with the ceiling perhaps 25 feet high. From the roof a dazzling forest of stalactixes is pointing toward us like a myriad of lcicles from the cavern of an iceburg ia the rising sun. while three magnificent corrugated pillars seven feet in height most splendidly emphasized the extraordinary effect On either hand there was a natural balcony, from which it seemed that spirit eyes. or the materalized forms of the chiefs of toltec greatness might wait upon inconceivable performances in mighty parquet below. Occasional ly an orrifice, sufficiently large to be natures carving, frescos. phantastic figures, wainscotting, most resplend- ent and extraordinary beneath the light of the faithful soto, and all this