Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — GRANDEUR [ARTICLE]

GRANDEUR

Of Mammoth Cave Rivaled by New Cavern Found Near New Albany, Ind. New Albany., Ind., Dec. 19. A subterranean, cavern rivaling in beauty and grandeur.the celebrated Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, or -Wyandotte Gave, in Indiana, was discovered today at the • quarry of a stone company in Washington township, Harrison county, on the Ohio river. 25 qriles below the city. An opening to the cavern was uncovered in blasting stone out of the quarry. The cavern has been explqred!

for a distance of three quarters] of a mile, and the stalactite and stalagmite formations are said to be more beautiful and more] elaborate than those of either Mammoth or Wyandotte cave. 1 The newly discovered cavern! is within 10 miles of Wyandotte,and may be air arm oWhat"cete- * brated cave.