Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-27

1877. Mr.. Covington has already in
serted boring rods q distance of 49,
leet. and The channels may contain no
iafthei obstruction until the exterior is
reached. During this work he found
several rare relics, the most important
OF them being :, small bracelet of iron.
or perhaps II Was a child's ankict. This
was YIN imbcdded in the cement of
tho S4th course.
1T is the oldest iron object known to
men, SANS MIR. Cuvington.
IN lsa' q MIR. Hin. an engineer. found
ilnhedded IN thu l"3 course II HAT piece
IRON equally IS old. which is now i'm
the British mNuscum: but it WAS mere
~ the material. noi IL finished object.
MI. C%oNingtoM has been allowed to re
tain his find.
Iheh Mr.: N~ovinsion canic across the
mystery "i the granite blocks. Why
they Ware so toilsomely lugsed with
in the loJy oi the imfncns. mass of
stone and ccmcn has never been un-
derStood. u" was cleaning out the
strange it'll" p~earl-shaped grotto i'm
the well shaft when he came across
one OF them. 1t had been lowered to
the grotto with great difficulty a,li
concealed there why. no one knows
Professor Flinders Petric had discov-
cred the other four granite blocks in
inc s'lpterrinean passages.
He refers To il as follows: his
ASi"lt'us anu elt!pi"S OF tilIeh,
page y.
"A large block of granite Was found
Wing in the passage worked on botl.
faces and one end, and having on one
edge a part of AN old Egyptian tub
ular drill hole which had been cut
OF the pyramid this can have come
from is a puzzle: nothing like it and
no place for it is known"
My. C%ovingt"n discovered that an
these five Important granite blocks
measure at least one way the ancient
Egyptian cubit. and that the one found
concealed i'm the grotto contained two
ancient drill holes similar to the Petria
stone. Believing tina: these mysterious
granite blocks played AN important
part i'm the interior construction of the
pyramid. Mr.. Covinston is still trying
to discover their original location.
Masons today build no more bcauti-
fully than did those ancient men who
toiled $500 years ago. They have left
their own i'm the Queen's
chamber. which, apparently. was never
used. 1t is superbly finished and
trance to this superb tomb was COW
cred and concealed. Possibly it was
intended FOR Mertitefe. Khufu's queen,
but she survived him and married his
brother Chepllrcn. who built the Sec
ond pyramid in the great group which
'0 VN't. Tvs W.
| just outside Cairo.
Tie great Kings chamber. So fee,
by L. by 10. is wrought in polished
granite. Just 100 perfect blocks ir
five courses mi it's walls. Nine
granite slabs form its ceiling and the
floor OF the low granite chambe:
above. This second chambers ceiling
forms the floor of a third chamber
and 50 on NJ TO the fifth. which is the
topfnost. cacl one rising over the
great one intended for the lei king.
Like the Queens chamber, this top
one is rooted with an arch of heavy
limestone slabs On one of those slabs
there still stays in living paint khu-
tu's qliarry mark, or official seal-twa
birds and Il snake, surmounted by 8
round dot.
One OF the strange things about this
construction OF these hambe is tina.
the ceiling side of each tier of gram
lite slabs are carefully polished, while
the floors are left rough and uneven.
These chambers were discovered by
Davidson in 1863. He forced IA pas
sage upward from the Grand gallery
until he came upon them.
Even today it is very difficult and
dangerous to make the ascent. Ordi.
narily tourists are not permitted tG
essay this journey into the bowels OF
the tremendous thing. In the past 1G
years but three men have been al
lowed to try it-Mr. Coyington him.
self. Professor Martin of Trinity col.
lege. Hartford, Conn, and Lord Dun.
sany. of England.
OF the mysteries he has found Mr.
C~ovinston has just spoken, and espe.
cially about the Grand gallery. 155 feet
long and IS feet high. by which the
Kings chamber is reached.
Il consider this the most mysterious
part of this mighty miracle in stone"
said he. because if the pyramid were
intended only as Il tomb there was
Grand gallery, with its strange and re-
marlsable features, except perhaps to
temporarily accommodate the granite
plugs which still close the lower end
of the ascending passage, but which /
find tit too tightly to have been slid
into position. At an agile of about &c
degrees. s minutes. it slopes up for 15;
feet. it's height % feet. and it's Width.
above the ramps nearly Z feet. Its
overlapping layers Of stone
while it is rooted by SO slabs. Border.
ing the third overlapping layer is "a
finely finished narrow groove extend.
ing right round the gallery; it is bu,
one OF several remarkable and inex-
Dlicable features which distinguish this
part of the structure.
~ 20-iEch ramp borders each side
of the gallery. extending right up tG
the great step, which is just one yard
high. Fac! ramp contains % ramp
holes. Owe nearly all OF which, for
some stronge and as yet unknown
reason. shallow holes have been CHS
elled out. and a neat, close-fittins
stone let in.
LAS most pyramidIsts are much per.
picked by this feature and have ad-
vancel various thcOrieS must ventura