The Clover Creek Cavern

 

The sources provide an account of an exploration of a cave on Clover Creek. Here is a summary of the exploration:

• Discovery and Initial Exploration: The notice of the cave's discovery on Captain Walt Allan's land appeared in "The Times". A correspondent was part of a party of six who explored the cave, going in about 350 feet.
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• Descent into the Cave: The explorers first went down a grade and then a level for a short distance before encountering a descent of 18 feet made using a pole. After a level space, they found another descent of 30 feet, which they navigated with a rope.
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• Further Exploration: After crawling through a small passage, the party entered a larger cavern, which was about 100 feet. There was an offset where they used a lantern to see 62 feet further before reaching the bottom of that space. They could not throw a stone to the end of the last cavern.
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• Cave Features: There was plenty of water in the cave, and the formations from the drippings were in all shapes and colors and hard as flint. Some formations were 6-12 inches long and in the shape of a pipe stem, perfectly hollow and easily broken. Others were in the shape of a blacksmith's mandril and stand 12-24 inches high.
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• Future Plans: The explorers wanted to make another exploration soon to see what more could be found out about the cave.

In summary, the cave exploration on Clover Creek involved a descent of over 350 feet, using poles and ropes to navigate, and the explorers encountered various formations in the cave, which contained water. They planned to explore the cave further at a later date.