The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., August 31, 1907, page 2
"Klickitat Intelligence"

     The Trout Lake Caves - While over at Trout Lake recently Ray Filloon used his kodak to good advantage and brought home with him several splendid pictures, says The Dalles Chronicle. Among them is one of special interest, being the interior of one of the caves that county is noted for. A party of campers climbed down a forty-five foot ladder and carrying a torch investigated for about a half mile into the "bowels of the Earth." There were rocks on either side and the cave was about fifteen feet wide for the entire length. No wild animals have found their way down that far and nothing which would serve as the foundation for a story. There is, however, a queer information of the rocks which resembles a huge face and even in the picture the outline is clear. An old Indian legend says that ages ago a huge giant was chasing some Indians, who took refuge in the cave and when he reached the opening it was too small for him to crawl through. Angered he uprooted a tree and broke away the earth, but in doing so fell headlong into the cave, when the Indians bound his feet and held him a prisoner till he died. He afterward turned to stone. Hence the image. The underground caves near Trout Lake wonderful, particularly the ice caves.

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