Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — The Paintea Caves Of Texas. [ARTICLE]

The Paintea Caves Of Texas.

Mr. J. Vau Wie informs the reporter of the San Antonio Express that his grading forces on the Mexican extension of the Sunset Rail way are now at Painted Cave, on Devil’s River, or about two miles beyond. There are three caves at this locality, all of which are painted, the figures being buffalos, bears, Indians with bows and&rrowS in warlike attitudes, Indians mounted and on the chase, squaws, etc.. The caves have been tattooes! entirely within'rhnd many, of these figures are still in a'good state <Sf preservation.. This Work was done by the red men in years long gone by, as the oldest white citizens remember these pain tdings, and say they look very mnch now as they appearer thirty and forty years ago indicatingtbe great age otihe paintings. Mr; Van Wie has occupied one of these for kitchin and diningroom purposes. It is about forty feet long and ten feet wide, ft is approached by climbing a hill, when the oave Is entered by the side of the hill. Its month is covered by cluster? of vines pendant from the branches and boughs

’of a clump of blackberry tJfees. In the the surface, through which Mr. van • Wie bas run twbstove-pipes. Another cave still, its shape beiug round, Mid of flora 1 Evenly of eighty people » used for storage qurposes. The third cave opens in a solid rock bluff, beiuglabout six feet in diameter at the mouth, andextenfls backward a distance of about 150 feet