Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-08-22
NEVADA WONDER CAVERN
Great Underground House of Many
ROoms-U ne plored.

Great Underground House of Many
Rooms Cuex pIored.
Lchman's cave is seventy miles
northwest of here. in White Pine
County, Nevada. at the foot of jeff
Davis peak, says the New York Her
aid correspondent at Modena. Titan.
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 in
Switzerland and Germany. the Mann
moth cave of Kentucky and Austria
lia's biggest caverns. pronounced Leh-
mans cave grander than anything he
had ever visited.
This cave has been explored for
whom the cave was named. took up
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
the temple of the gods and stands
bewildered Within this chamber is
"Washington's column" four feet in
diameter and forty feet high; Lin
coins column Grants column" and
Garfield'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 20 feet and 80 feet high,
the walls OF which are respondent
with sparkling lime crystals. The
musical gallery" 40 feet high. - feet
wide ands50 feet long, contains crys-
tai piano. From one side of this gal
! lery crystals shaped like the fins 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 purity of
tone.
"'rhe needles eye" cabinet room
and round room" all contain inter
esting specimens of natures fancies.
One Of the most beautiful features
is "Shoshone falls" 30 feet high and
so feet wide, lime formation built
up from the bottom until it resembles
foaming deluge frozen while in ac-
ton.
The skating rink" is room prob
ably so by IS 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 it.
The Cypress swamp 10 fully an
acre in extent The floor is covered
with beautiful fernlike stalagmtic
growths, with eroded passageways in
and about filed with cold water.
The angel grotto' exhibits a fac
simile of an angel with one wing bro
ken.
The grand museum "CleOpatra's
needle" Liberty Enlightening the
World" pillar of beauty" and the
crystal palace" are remarkable. In
some of these wonderful chambers
the stalactltes combine with the sta
lagmites in fanciful forms that one
could spend hours studying.
The form Of life-size deer greets
one in the grand museum" while
the great organ is not all illusion, hav-
ing an altarlike base. with stalag-
mites running to the roof of the cham
Der like organ pipes.
The largest single passageway so
far discovered is 200 feet long, and
+ 100 feet high.
The greatest cavern Is known as
the Large ROOM" being 20 feet wide,
100 feet long and 100 feet high.
"Chaos' is appropriately named
/ One looks down into this chamber and
the floor presents a view OF confu-
sion. Huge blocks OF stone weighing
( tons lie about as II a cyclone had
! started to demoish the earth.
Numerous side apertures indicate
! the presence of a network Of still I'M
explored chambers. In several places
assures the depth Of which are I'M
known would indicate wonderful areas
below.
A current OF air plays through the
chambers. giving rise to the belief
that an undiscovered exit remains to
he found on the opposite side of the
mountain