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to Carlsbad is the 'Lecheguilla' caverns, discovered in the late 20th century, ad they are nearing the length of the Mammoth-Flint Ridge system of Kentucky, as new passages are being 'pushed' continually. The "Big Room" of Carlsbad caverns is 4000 feet long, 625 feet wide and 300 feet high, it could almost hold the Golden Gate Bridge inside itself and a 25 story office building could be built in the center of this tremendous room with space to spare at the top! In another room of the same cavern a seventy story skyscraper could be fitted, being 820 feet in height. A few miles away in another cave, the worlds largest known stalagmite-stalactite column exists. The whole area near the cavern could be honey-combed beneath with even more undiscovered caverns.

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#16 --- This next letter appeared on pages 171-172 of the October, 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES:

   "Sirs:  Norman Finley, a neighbor of a good friend of mine, told me about an experience he had which was rather unusual. He and a couple of other fellows were hunting down in the Big Bend country. I don't know whether you are familiar with the Big Bend or not, but there is no more wild or desolate area in the country. Rugged, mountainous, cut by canyons, there are innumerable parts of it which have never known the foot of man.

   "It was in one of the most desolate areas that Finley and his companions found themselves. They had driven about ninety miles southwest of Marathon, Texas, a little town of about 700 people, at the foot of the Del Norte Mountains, 4000 feet high, and had then gone on afoot. The dirt road just petered out and they couldn't get their car further. They were hunting deer but had had no luck. Just as they were about to call it a day, Finley spotted a mountain lion. He snapped a