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(Original photos not included. The formation is roughly 20+' tall)
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T H E N E W Y O R K T I M E S
"Vast Underground Fairyland Glitters in a Newly Found Cave in New Mexico
A newly discovered cavern, with a vaulted chamber more than half a mile long, has been surveyed by R. M. P. Burnet, Curator of the Carlsbad Museum, who returned with the photographs which appear on this page. The entrance to the cavern, which is twelve miles south of the Carlsbad Caverns in Southeastern New Mexico, was discovered a year ago by a goatherd, whose goats had disappeared on the side of one of the Guadalupe Mountains. Mr. Burnet, who undertook a careful survey of it two weeks ago, spent six hours in the cavern, accompanied by a group of friends, and reports that it exceeds in size and beauty many of the caves of America. He was forced to turn back when the cavern branched off at the end of the largest chamber, for fear of losing his way in the recesses beyond. Broken pottery and charred wood from a fire were found on the floor of the cavern, the first time, according to Mr. Burnet, that evidence of Indians having occupied a large cave has ever been discovered.
The "Christmas Tree Room," shown in the photograph above, is one of the chambers leading to the largest cavern. All the line deposit in it has startlingly white surfaces and there are a number of formations of the limestone resembling Christmas trees, which are covered with snowlike(sic) deposits.
At the Left--A grotesque formation near the entrance to the vast chamber in the cavern was christened the Klansman by members of the exploring party. The hood is pure white and the face is yellow. (Times Wide World Photos)"

The formation was filmed in Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr's "King Solomon's Mines"