FOWKE] ARCHE(3L0GICAL INVESTIGATIONS 53 



The first, in a bluff facing the Gasconade, lialf a mile above the 

 mouth of Roiibidoux Creek, is 50 feet above the bottom of the hill. 

 The entrance, toward the northeast, is 45 feet wide and 36 feet high. 

 The sides are parallel for 45 feet ; at that point the east wall abruptly 

 recedes for 12 feet and then continues in a curving line for 120 feet 

 farther, to an outlet in the side of a shallow ravine trending toward 

 the west. This opening, 13 feet wide, is filled nearly to the top with 

 debris which slopes steeply for 40 feet into the cave. 



The west wall, at 45 feet, makes an outward curve to a branch 

 which leads northwest for 25 feet and has an opening on the side 

 of the hill 25 feet wide and 20 feet high ; the talus at the front is 12 

 feet high and slopes steeply into the cave. Beyond this branch the 

 west wall extends in a straight line to the small outlet at the ravine. 



The floor of the cave has a gentle incline from the bottom of 

 the debris in the rear to the main entrance. 



No refuse could be found in the cave or around any of the three 

 entrances ; and the place would not be suitable for a shelter in winter 

 as the wind, no matter from what direction, blows directly through it. 



Tlie second cave is near the foot of the hill, half a mile up the 

 river from the first. A gentle slope in front leads to the bottom 

 land along the stream. The entrance, toward the northwest, is 60 

 feet wide and 10 feet high. At 65 feet within is standing water; 

 marks in a channel along the west wall show that at times there is 

 an outflow wath a depth of a foot or more. At the front is a great 

 amount of talus partly fallen from the ledge forming the roof, partly 

 washed down from the hillside ; the outer slope is 20 feet high, the 

 inner slope has a slight incline to the standing water. The entire 

 deposit within the cave and in front of it is of tough, sticky clay. 

 Many large rocks lie on the surface or slightly imbedded, and large 

 trees grow on the talus. No indications of occupancy could be 

 discovered. 



MIX GAVE (21) 



On the Mix farm, half a mile below the Gasconade bridge on the 

 Waynesville and Crocker road, on the left (west) side, at the head 

 of a ravine, is a cave with an entrance 75 feet wide and 20 feet high. 

 Cave earth, apparently not more than 3 feet thick at any point, 

 although it gradually rises to a level 6 feet higher than the floor at 

 the mouth, extends back 80 feet; beyond this is water-soaked clay 

 and gravel reaching 60 feet farther to a turn in the cave, making a 

 distance of about 140 feet in daylight. There is a shallow channel 

 12 feet wide along the east wall from the gravel to the entrance; evi- 

 dence that at times a volume of water of that width flows out of 

 the cave. The cave earth is damp for several feet from the line of 



