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...them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads of silver from the families of his guests...
...Carlsbad Cave. A bright young man prepared last week to probe big, black Carlsbad Cave, the vastest known cavern in the earth, and disturb the millions of bats living therein. Frank Ernest Nicholson, 28, Texas-born journalist-explorer, within the fortnight will take a typewriter, radio transmitter, telephone with lengthy wire, block & tackle, torches, cameras, food, a physician, a mineralogist, an electrician, a representative of the Department of the Interior and four helpers to a cliff of the Guadalupe Mountains 100 miles from El Paso, Tex., and 30 miles south of Carlsbad, N. Mex. Near the cliff's foot...
...discovered 29 years ago when a cowboy, one Jim White, saw what he thought was volcanic smoke. The "smoke" was the effect of flocks of bats emerging for their evening insect hunt. The Government made the cave site a National Monument seven years ago, marking off 720 acres. The underground halls spread farther than that; how far, Explorer Nicholson will try to learn...
Water filtering through overlaid rocks for perhaps 60 million years made Carlsbad Cave by dissolving original beds of rock salt, limestone, gypsum. In the great rooms, dripping water carrying, dissolved minerals has formed great stalagmites and stalactites. In the "King's Room" stalactites hang like the iridescent folds, pleats and ruffles of a canopy. The monstrosity of Carlsbad Cave, however, is the "Big Room," half a mile long, 400 ft. wide, 348 ft. high. Sixteen airships the size of the Los Angeles could be housed therein...
Subterranean Garden. Squeezing through tunnels that nearly balked both forward and backward progress, pausing a minute for a breath of damp air, peering into obscurity ahead, went Leo McGavic and Cecil Cutliff, guides, inching their way through the nether tortuosities of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. About a mile and a half from where Floyd Collins died (TIME, June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case...