130 THE OREGON NATURALIST. 
The next room is the Amphitheatre, then 
Turtle Pass with the monster Turtle, and 
then the Confederate Cross Roads. This 
is the junction of the Sampson’s Palace 
route, to the Garden of Eden, and the Ca- 
stle Garden route to the Fair Grounds and 
Pearly Gates. The next room is the 
Stone Quarry, being as natural a stone 
quarry as any one could find. Thestone, 
which is Lime, lies in layers about ten in- 
ches thick. and some very fine blocks and 
slabs have been quarried. Bishop’s Gaze 
isthe next point of interest , being a crev- 
ice one hundred and twenty-five feet high, 
and lighted with one hundred candles. 
Then we pass into Fallen Flats, two miles 
from the entrance and three hundred and 
fifty feet below the surface. This is the 
lowest point on this reute. We then as- 
cend Cliffclimbers Delight, a climb of six- 
ty feet on easy stairs, to Five Points, a 
place where five routes connect. 
Next comes Omaha Bee Office, W. C. 
T. U. Hall, Silent Lake, Daily Nebraska 
State Journal, Cathedral, with its piano, 
whose keys are long clear stalactites, 
that give a ciear mellow musical tone 
when struck with a pen knife. 
The next room is the Garden of Eden, 
two and one half miles from the entrance, 
and the end of this route. This room con- 
tains about one half an acre and on a 11 
sides can be seen the beautiful white and 
pink frostwork. Exclamations of surprise 
and pleasure are heard on every hand from 
start to finish. A very faint idea of the 
rare beauties, the varied and peculiar for- 
mations, can be conveyed in language. 
They must be seen to realize the extent, 
the grandeur, the sublimity of this wond- 
erful place. The air is not damp, nor does 
water drop from the roof, except in a few 
places, and a uniform temperature of 45° 
degrees is maintained throughout the year. 
GEO.A. STABLER. 
It is reported by good authority that the 
Denny pheasant sometimes lays her eggs in 
other nests than her own. 
WRITTEN FOR THE OREGON NATURALIST: 
RARE MINERALS FOUND ON 
NEW YORK ISLAND. 
The resources of New York Island have beeu 
added to, in the finding of Monazite, a Phos- 
phate of Cerium, Zanthanium and Thallium, 
and Zenotime a Phosphate of Yttrium, by the 
digging of the Mica Schists at one hundred and 
eighty-fifth street. They were found by Mr. 
William Niven the well known mineralogist, 
and I also found them there. The Monazite in 
large quantities. The first is in waxey greenish 
crystals and the last in flesh colored scales. 
These are both rare, theMonazite being found 
at Notero in Norway. at Norwich, Connec- 
ticut, and in North Carolina. The Zenotime in 
Norway, Sweeden and Georgia. 
Besides being minerals of scarce metals they 
are used in making the famous incandescent 
light, also they are of interest to the chemist 
for experiment in his laboratory, 
In one of this group of Yttrium and Thorium 
m.nerals, namely Clevite, Proffesor Ramsay has 
just discovered the presence of the elements Ar- 
gon and Helium and the statement has been 
made that.all of the mimerals of this group con- 
tain these new elements more or less. 
The crystals found are said to be worth 
many thousand dollars. 
Prof. ARTHUR M, Epwarps, M. D. 
Newark, N, J. 
Most young collectors, and in fact, older per- 
sons of experlence,are often surprised to hear 
that garnets come in other colors than red, 
It seems quite common, to speak of the gar- 
net shade, yet garnets are of almost every color 
from a yellow toa green, The Bohemian gar- 
nets represent the supposed constant color, 
Grossularite garnets are found in California, 
fine almandite ginets in Alaska, yellow-green 
in Arizona, and fine garnets have been shown 
recently, reported to have been found in East- 
ern Oregon, 
