Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — Nevada’s Natural Phenomena. [ARTICLE]

Nevada’s Natural Phenomena.

Eureka Leader. Nevada is a land of carious natural Snenomena. Her rivers have no visile outlet to the ocean. She has no lakes of any magnitude. She has vast stretches of alkali deserts, however, that give every indication of having been the beds or bottoms of either scm or lakes Down ih Lincoln county there is a spring of ice cold water that

' bubbles up over a rock and disappears on the other side, and no one has been able to find where the water goes. At another point in the same county is a largespring, about twenty feet Square, that Is apparently only some eighteen or twenty inches in depth, with a sandy,bottom. The sand can be plainly seek, but on looking closer it is preceived that this sand is in a perpetual state of unrest. No bottom has ever I been found to this spring. It is - said that a teamster, on reaching this spring one day, deceived by Its apparent shallowness. concluded to soak one of his wegon wheels to cure the looseness of its tire. He therefore took jtoff and rolled it into the, as he thought, shallow water. He neves laid eyes on that wheel again. Her mountains are full of caves and caverns, many of which have been explored toa great distance. Speaking of caves, a redeo was held last spring over in Huniiagton valley. During its’|>rogrees quite a number of cattle were missed and for a time unavailing search was made for them. At last they were traced to the mouth of a natural tunnel or cave in the mountain. The herders entered the cave, and following it for a long distance, at last found the cattle. It appears that they had probably entered the cave, which was very narrow in search of water. It had finally narrowed so that they could proceed no further. Neither could they turn around to get out. They had been missed some days, and if they had not been found must inevitably have perished in a.short time. As it was they were extracted from their predicament with difficulty, by the nerders squeezing past and getting in front of them and scaring them into a retrograde movement by flapping their be* into the faces of the stupid bo vines.