Show PICNIC IN IDAHO A Visit to the Twin and Shoshone Falls Oar party ooneiiting of Judge Harroun Mrs Harroun and daughter daugh-ter Miiss Jceaie Mr and Mrs Jamci Bascom all of Albion Mr and Mr F A Stareh and little May Min Sarah and Miss Minnie McLillan of Salt Lake City left SUrehs lerry on Snake Bier Idaho Monday morning morn-ing 8ept3d at S oclok We followed fol-lowed the rirar down about twenty miJeelcae ing some beautiful scenery ConsIsting of email isl ndg in the river with cedar tress growing cn I them also large rocks resembling ruins of ancient castle eta the river sometimes winding between solid walls of lava rocks whicb rise perpendicular in some place five and six Hundred feet above the waters edge so a person could not eee the river without lying down and looki goer g-oer the precipice The river look to us from tbose high positions likt a little winding brook of green I water In tne year 1872 there were very rich placer diggings of gold discovered dis-covered on this river and hundreds of men made immense fortunes in a shoit time all along you can see where they worked Same places the walls were so high they had to lower men and supplies down with machinery At noon we arrived at a place called Dry Creek We camped hee for lunch built a fire of sage brush made tea and coffee soread a tent down under some green willowe and set our table with cold roast chicken ham cakes and pies and all > the delicacies del-icacies of picnic in profusion Our appetites were certainly in a condition condi-tion to do justice to everything eatable eat-able We rested for an hour and then started for Twin falls We had some vary rogh roads to travel but got ovfir them all right and at sundown sun-down camped at the head of a ceil 3D a mile from Twin falls We could hear them roar quite plainly We built our camp fireand fried chicken and potatoes and ate as if we had not stopped for dinner We eoon retired re-tired but I could not sleep much Everything seemed so wild and strange In the morning we break I fahtfed and baying provided ourselves with walking canes we started on our journey down the caihn to the faJl We had to walk as it was not sate to ride on horseback and if we had taken a wagon we would have had to lower it down with a winda s We scrambled down the rooks and when we reached the bottom on either side of us were walls as straight as if built by masons Here we all tried oar lungs to see who could make the loudeat noise and then in a few seconds we could hear the echo repeat our words plaiply down the cf iion We go around a cliff of rock and then wa saw the river again We see little islands in the river and rocks and little falls and then the river divides and falls a hundred and ten feet These are what are called the Twin falls To view them we all walked out on a natural rock pier and sat down and viewed them without with-out speaking as the sight was so grand wo were perfectly overcome Down down the water comee ever tberocks like white bolta of lace It looked so transparent flU could almost imagine beautiful patterns worked on it by the skillful band of nature and our eyes would get tired a d when we looted again the de sigIl seemed all changed When the water reaches the river below its force causes a beautiful mist to arise and it ooks like a fog At the npar eat point to the fails you can leel the spray un your face and where it fals on the rocks they are all covered cov-ered with a beautiful green moss After looking at them until we wre satisfied we started back or walked very slowly up the canyon to our wagons We then started up the river about three miles to what is considered the grandest sight of all in the northern country the Shoshone Sho-shone falls Once more we get ready to go down where we again can see the river and falls but we do not descend a deep canyon as before we gradually wind around big rocks and crags and onto the shelves of rocks and then lonnd another rock and then along ledges of rocks lacking down upon it and up the river You see the water omes pouring down like over a canyon of rook and in the middle of the river stands one lone rock about 200 feet high looking as if it might topple over any minute Here you can get to the waters edge When we got here we spread down a large canvas and opened our lunch basket again Good appetites again The noise of the falls a short way down the river from us was eo great we could hardly hear each other talk After we had rested a little while we went on to see the falls 210 feet in height 0 if you could only imagine the sghI The very earth seemed to tremble beneath ua We could not hear each other at all only when we would scream at tho top of our voice and then the echo would come back from the wall above us like the cry of some wid bird on the chit over our he de On the opposite shore from which we were the wall was 800 feet straight dowc to the water I and as the river want over the falls it I looked like great billows of snow I tumbling over and over and when it I reaches the river below it boils up azain in ita madness and dashes against the rooks in a terrible furY snowing the traveler that one miss step and all would be over Then you begin to real za what a puny thing you are how helpless and how dependent on the great Creator of all things As I stood out on ft projecting clifl of rock beneath the I mist rOle the ipn shining on it a beautiful rainbow appeared The eight was 10 grand I have not Ian gaage to express the grandeur of the scene nor to convey even the f iinteat idea of its beauty aa it impressed i me I can never forget it myself I can never describe ita beauty to others 0 8 |