The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-09-15
NEVADA WONDER CAVERN
Great Underground House OF Many
Rooms-U nsx pioyed.


Lehman's cave Is seventy mile
northwest of here. In White Pin
County. Nevada, at the foot OF JET
Davis peak. says the New York Her
aid correspondent at Modena. Utah
1t is a marvel. and after the compile
ton OF the San Pedro Railway Is Ger
tain to become the Mecca OF thou
sands OF tourists.
| An English traveller who had ex
plored the subterranean wonders IL
Switzerland and Germany. the Nam
moth cave OF Kentucky and Austria
Has biggest caverns. pronounced Leh
mans cave grander than anything hs
had ever visited
This cave has been explored fol-
about a mile. A. b. Lehman. after
whom the cave was named. took ~
on the land at the entrance. and for
eighteen years lived there improving
the accessibility OF many OF the won
ders. The place is now In the hands
OF Charles Rowland.
One enters the tirst large cavern.
the temple OF the gods" and stands
bewiidered. Within this chamber Is
"Washington's column" four feet in
diameter and forty feet high; Lin
coins column" Grants column" and
Garfeld's column" each three feet In
diameter and thirty feet high. These
four stalagmites are pure white.
Next comes the bridal chamber. %
is feet by ~ feet and 80 feet high.
the walls OF which are Respondent
with sparkling lime crystals. The
musical gallery" 10 feet high. II feet
wide and 80 feet long. contains crys-
tai piano. From one side OF this gall
lery crystals shaped like the inns OF a
fish project from the wall three or
four feet Upon these some one has
marked the musical notation. enabling
one TO produce chords with a purity OF
tone.
The needles eye" cabinet room"
and round room" all contain inter-
esting specimens OF natures fancles.
One OF the most beautiful features
Is "Shoshone falls" 80 feet high and
80 feet wide. q lime formation built
up from the bottom until IL resembles
a foaming deluge frozen while In ac-
ton.
The skating rink" Is a room prob
ably 80 by rs feet. the floor OF which
Is covered six inches deep with pla-
cid cold water. seemingly all Ice. This
Illusion Is hard TO dispel until the Wis
Itor has stepped into IL.
The cypress swamp" Is fully an
acre In extent The door Is covered
with beautiful fernlike stala gmitic
growths. with eroded passageways In
and about. filed with cold water.
The angel grotto" exhibits a fac
smile Of an angel with one wing bro
ken.
The grand museum" "Cleopstrs's
needle" Liberty Enlsghtenlng the
World" pillar OF beauty" and the
crystal palace are remarkable. In
'ome OF these wonderful chambers
he stalactites combine with the sta
agmites in fsnciful forms that one
.ould spend hours studying.
The form OF a life-size deer greets |
me in the grand museum" while
he great organ is not all Illusion. hav-
ng an altar-llke base. with stalag-
mites running TO the roof OF the cham
yer like organ pipes.
The largest single passageway so
ar discovered Is 200 feet long. and
90 feet high.
The greatest cavern Is known rs
he large room" being 20 feet wide.
90 feet long and 100 feet high.
Chaos" Is appropriately named.
me looks down into this chamber and
he door presents a view OF confu-
Ion- Huge blocks OF stone weighing
,ns lie about as II a cyclone had
tarted to demollsh the earth.
Numerous side apertures Indicate
lie presence of a network OF still I'M
tplored chambers. In several places
ssures the depth of which. are I'M
nown would Indicate wonderful areas /
Glow. {
A current OF air plays through the
iambers. giving rise TO the belief I
at an undiscovered exit remains to 4
, found on the opposite side of the I
ountain.