It was a couple of years ago when we were there.
Cool cave with a lot of history, but we all like CaCa better.
Mark
From: Don Cooper [mailto:wavyca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 7/25/2008 12:36 PM
To: David
Cc: o...@texascavers.com; Minton, Mark; speleoste...@tx.rr.com; vivb...@att.net
Subject: Re: [ot_caving] Re: [Texascavers] RE: Here's a fun one
When I was a kid, I visited Mammoth with my mom and dad. At the time, old
saltpeter mining gear was still in the cave - like vats and wooden pipes. I
wonder if that stuff is still there?
=WaV
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:58 AM, David wrote:
This is an interesting thread.
According to Wikipedia,
The U.S. Congress passed legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to
take possession of unoccupied
islands containing saltpetre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Chincha_guano_islands.JPG
Note this is supposedly how we obtained the famous Midway Island.
There is lots of information info on the web about salt-petre and
caves.
For example:
http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/dmrpdfs/vamin/VAMIN_VOL47_NO04.pdf
