Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

August 1948
February 1950
September 1950
Chapter 22 -- Boys' Life
"Scout Cavemen"
We boarded a sightseeing boat and paddles across a dammedup
lake and into the cave mouth, which was as big as a railroad
tunnel. A few hundred yards upstream we found a group of
patrolmen seining the underground river for the lost cave owner.
They advised us to go back.
After another thousand yards we reached the head of the river, a
small pond in the corner of the biggest room we ever found under
the earth.
An account of Explorer Post 2031's excursion to Case Cave in
northwestern Georgia. Accurate description of a karst cavern.
"Saulteaux's Lobstick"
"He's Grey Hawk," Conant interpreted. "Says his father wants to
get the buffalo-killers lost. Or delay 'em till they are caught. So
he's taken' them to the Nyarling -- the Underground River. Which
they canna' follow because part of its way it does flow
underground through the salty bed rock.
More adventure fiction, but accurate in the description of desert
rivers that persist below the stream bed.
"Death Valley Adventure"
The others gathered to hear the park naturalist, L. Floyd Keller,
tell a story of how Bad Water got its name from a man who made
a mistake.
He was a map-maker, and he found the place many years ago --
a small pool of water standing in a depression of the salt flats.
The salt there is 1800 feet deep, but the water, fed by an
underground river, runs to a depth of only a few inches. The
map-maker tasted it, made a wry face and reported to his bureau
in Washington that it was bad water.
Another bona fide report of a Scout outing, the "underground
river reference" meaning "spring."
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