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The statement may be true ; but instead of a cave there is only a tun- 

 nel a few rods in length. Beyond the upper arch is an open ravine. 



DAERHOFF CAVE 



On Ben Daerhoff's farm, 4 miles north of St. Elizabeth, is a cavern 

 facing rt narrow valley through which a small stream flows to Tavern 

 Creek a mile and a half away.- The entrance is 8 feet high and 65 

 feet wide. It is well lighted to a depth of 120 feet, where it makes a 

 turn. Dry earth extends back for 55 feet ; from there on it is muddy. 

 A small stream flows along one wall, from the wet portion of the floor 

 to the entrance ; with a little ditching this could be made to drain off 

 all the water, forming a dry bottom to the rear wall. No refuse of 

 any kind could be found, and the owner says he has never observed 

 any either in the cave or in front of it. 



CAVE NEAR MOUTH OF TAVERN CREEK 



In the bluff facing Tavern Creek, half a mile above its junction 

 with the Osage, is a cave with an entrance 10 feet high and the same 

 in Avidth. It has a depth of 45 feet in daylight. The floor is of clay 

 and angular gravel, and so wet that puddles are found near the 

 entrance. 



BAT CAVE (34) 



This is in a bluff facing the Osage, a mile south of the Rock Island 

 Railway bridge. It is not accessible except by means of a ladder or 

 stairway fully 60 feet long. The roof overhangs the entrance, and 

 the floor projects over a shallow rock shelter which reaches for a few 

 rods along the foot of the bluff. A small amount of water seeps from 

 the entrance. Persons who explored the cavern years ago — there is 

 no way to reach it at present — say it divides into three large cham- 

 bers, mostly dry, and with floors of solid rock or of earth containing 

 much rock. 



GRAVE AT MOUTH OF SALINE CREEK (35) 



Four miles below Tuscumbia, on the left bank of the Osage, is 

 the mouth of Saline Creek which comes in from the north. On the 

 lower (east) side of their junction, on the farm of Charles Tillman, 

 is a low spur projecting toward the creek. On this is a pile of 

 stones, all that remains of a vault or box grave which formerly 

 existed there. Mr. Tillman says it was originally 35 or 40 feet 

 across, a mound or rounded heap of stones, those about the top being- 

 larger than those nearer the base. Needing rock for various pur- 

 poses, he procured them from this pile, beginning at the top to 

 remove them and proceeding outward. In the course of this work 



