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the time, as I remember. That was Harmer's opinion, is what I mean to say.

   You can have a Washington D.C. representative contact me at the Times-Herald, or at my home, 5605 33rd st. N. W., Washington, D.C. My phone number is ORDway 3374.

   However, Harmer is your man. Or should I say Shaver's man? He was still at the Los Angeles Daily News last May and I'm pretty sure he is still a reporter there.

   He's a man with an open mind and will not allow himself to be conquered either by Charles Fort or Albert Einstein.

   Incidently he knows about another cavern operated near the Dorr brothers' place. The manager (or owner, I forget) is a man named Hansen, Hansen is a man afraid of his cave. He doesn't go in himself. He hires people to guide others into it. Harmer, in 1935, didn't find out why he wouldn't go in, He just seemed to be a man afraid. --- Charles H. Gesner., Times-Herald., Washington, D. C.

 

The following letter appeared on p. 173 of the Nov. 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES:

 

Sirs:

   I was somewhat surprised to note the letter of Charles H. Gesner which appeared in your March, 1947, issue and dealt with the tremendous cave alleged to exist in California.

   The story as told by Gesner is substantially accurate in all details and was at one time printed in the magazine of the Southern California Auto Club.

   The only existing copy of the blueprint showing the internal ramifications of this cave was in my hands for several years.