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Show BEADY TO CONSTRUCT i SCENIC MUD Line From Twin Falls to Shoshone Sho-shone Falls Will Be Rushed. ps. :r -" Special to Tho Tribune. BOISE. Ida.. Nov. I. With a view of developing Idaho's national parka and playgrounds, set aside by special acts of the legislature because of their scenic beauty, negotiations have been completed com-pleted for the construction of a scenic railway from the town of Twin Falls to Shoshone Knlla n tho Sunk; river, surrounding which Is the Mite of one of the .state park's In the southern part of the s'tnt". I. 15. Perrlne of Twin KiiHs. largely through whos efforts the Twin Falls irrigation projects wore launched, reclaiming thousands of acres of ihe laud, has shown his public spirit by ilnanclnc the scenic line and will inntnll it within the next two months. Shoshone Falls has be?n called the "Nlagnra of the West" because of its height and the volume of wmrr carried In Urn Snake river channel that thunders over It, rushing Into deep "-nd scenic canyon. It Is to bring the falls in closej communication with Idaho residents that the scenic railway has been planned. It will he equipped with the latest Edison storage battery cars and will cross th-Snake th-Snake river jtist below the fa Ik? at a height of several hundred feet, and v.lll eventually have lis terminal at .Icr-mie. Speaking of his plans, Mr. Perrine said: The first train of our road Is to be delivered to us at Twin Falls November No-vember 15 and we expect, to bo able to mil tho first excursion to Shoshone falls December 1. While In the cast I recently was one of a party, that rode on the first demonstration Fdi-son Fdi-son storage battery train of electrii: cars that was ever practically operated. op-erated. This trip w.os out of the Pennsylvania railroad depot in New York city to Long Beach and return. The run to the beach was made in fifty-seven minutes, and the trip back-was back-was accomplished In fifty-nine minutes. min-utes. For the three cars but IP 2 kilowatts of electric energy wer consumed con-sumed and the cost of the power required re-quired for tlie round trip wps only We are going to make the first wettern experiment In opera ling the Fdlson storage hatterj ears on an interurban line. Our generating plant at Shoshone Falls will supply us will' Ihe electrical energy with which lo charge and recharge the batteries on our trains. We require no overhead transmission lines nor third ra.ilr. Tlie energy is carried In storage batteries bat-teries on the cjirs. Our new line on which the experiment experi-ment is to he made with ih Edlsou cars Is In the form of a loon ten miles lone. It runs out from Twin Falls, then three mile? along the bank of tlie Snake River ennyon. thence south two miles and west three miles back lo Twin Falls. Condemnation proceedings ha e ben Instituted by the bnckers of the road against the state of Idaho to acquire right-of-way across state land loi-,?led on both sides of the Snake rlvr near the Shoshone falls. This action was taken to pave the way for Installing the scenic road. |