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210 mountain, and is located nearly two-thirds of a mile back from the main entrance. The Graveyard, a chamber about 75 feet long and 25 feet wide, is next in size to the Ghost Room. Joaquin Miller's Chapel is a beautiful room, in which there is a pillar seven feet high and ten inches in diameter. Near the pillar is a stalacite and a stalagmite that have nearly grown together, illustrating how the pillar in Joaquin Miller's Chapel was formed. Fantastic decorations of walls, ceilings and floors with huge flowers and vegetables in limestone are

Joaquin Miller's chapel, Oregon caves (History of Oregon).jpg By Courtesy U. S. Dept. of Forestry. "JOAQUIN MILLER'S CHAPEL," OREGON CAVES

among the attractive features of the chambers and galleries. Some of the most wonderful of these are found in that end of the Ghost Room known as Paradise Lost.

The Caves a Part of National Reserve. The Oregon Caves, embracing in all 420 acres, were set aside by the National Government in 1913, because of their scientific interest. The Forest Service maintains a camp at the