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Fairy Lake on Upper Shields River. 



luiut large and small game and to fish and costs $30; "alien fishing" whirh entitles 

 the holder to fish only and costs $5. 



Among the natural wonders of Montana, the tourist should not neglect the Lewis 

 and Clark cavern (formerly called Morrison's cave), a limestone cavern of great 

 scientific interest, because of its length and because of the number of large vaulted 

 chambers it contains. It is of historic interest, also, because it overlooks for a distance 

 of more than fifty miles the trail of Lewis and Clark along the Jefferson river, named 

 by them. The vaults of the cavern are magnificiently decorated with stalactites and 

 stalagmite formations of great variety in size, form and color, the equal of, if not 

 rivaling, the similar formations in the well known Luray caves in Virginia. 



The cavern is located about three-quarters of a mile northeasterly from Cavern, 

 a postoffice in Jefferson county and a station on the Northern Pacific railway, about 

 45 miles from Butte. The cave may also be reached from the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 FA. Paul station of Alcazar, about two miles distant. The cavern is situated in a mas- 

 sive deposit of what is known as Madison limestone, which at this place dips steeply 

 to the southwest. The various chambers in the cave, as far as explored, extend for a 

 distance of about 700 feet horizontly and 350 feet vertically, but there are many 

 openings and passages that have never been explored. The chambers and passages 

 seem in general to follow the dip of the formation. The cavern is best reached by 

 following the railroad track easterly for about a quarter of a mile and then following 

 a circuitous road or trail about one and a half miles. The mouths of the cavern are 

 1,300 feet above the railroads and the climb requires about an hour and a half. 

 Its two entrances which are about one hundred yards apart, are upon the walls of a 

 deep canyon about 500 feet below the rim. The LeMis and Clark cavern is a national 

 monument, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior. 



