Father started to Custer City this morning on business. At 1:10 P.M. J.M. Moore & I started in the cave with the intention of finding the source of Wind River (a thing that I and August Anderson give up more than six months ago). To get to Wind River, we had to go on the Monument Hall Route, as far the Post Office & then take the Cataract Route from the Post Office. To the right of this end of the third division of the Post Office we climbed up about 60 feet (angling) & came into the cataract. In the North East end of the Cataract we crawled into a small passage leading to the left & came into a small room (after going about 25 feet). From here we turned to our left about 50 feet & then to our right into the Wind River chamber. Here we found a heavy quartz wash and a good many big rocks in the bottom of the room. We explored about 20 minutes without favorable results. I finally found a place that I could get through, by breaking a while with the hammer, & had ....... on top & bottom of the hole. After breaking through, we came into a room with no regular shape or dimensions that I could see, (probably 30 yards across). From the West end of this room we found a passage leading to the right & I had the pleasure of being the first human being that ever went through it (because I made the first tracks). After we got through this passage we came into the first natural room that I ever saw in the cave, (there not being any fallen rocks), with dimensions about 17 feet in diameter x 10 feet high. From that we got into a confusion of passages (all natural) leading first to the right and then to the left, about 25 or 30 feet at each angle, & then got into a large room with no regular shape. From there we got into a passage leading to the right & then to the left, but kept getting smaller until we were forced to make our progress on our hands & knees. When we got through we came unexpectedly on a cotton wrapping twine. I recognized the twine as the one we stretched yesterday on the Specimen Route & found that we was near "Turtle Room" (about 25 feet above it). J.M. Moore and I have the honor of, not only connecting the Cataract & Specimen Routes, but finding another way to get to the Post Office without going past the Brides Chamber. We was not satisfied with finding one thing of so much importance, but determined to explore fore more. So we came along the string we had found already stretched until we got even with the stalactites that J.M. Moore found yesterday & then made our string fast to it and left it. We went through a small hole on our hands & knees that led us into a good sized room, (about 30 x 20 feet, irregular), that had quartz wash in the bottom of it; but was nothing like the Wind River wash. From this room we took a small passage leading to the North West that was nearly lined with calcite crystals. The passage kept get larger until it opened up into a larger room with regular dimensions (about 45 x 15 feet). We looked around about 15 minutes before we found the passage that we wanted to take, but I finally found it in the North West Corner of the room. The passage was pretty small at first but there was some wind coming out of it & that inspired us to keep moving on because, in Wind Cave, whenever you find a passage that has wind in it, it shows the passage is of some importance. It was a natural passage & we followed it over a hundred feet before we found the big room we expected to find. The room was very irregular & was about 150 feet across in the shortest place. There was a whole network of passages leading in every direction .... & we found that some one had been in the room before we had because the was tracks in the coft floor. We tried to follow the tracks out of the room, but when we got on the solid rock floor again, there was no tracks, so we gave it up after about half an hours search & returned to the large room again. We took another passage this time from the west end of the room & after we followed it a while, we found tracks in it & then found a beaten trail & things began to look natural to me,
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