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Show SOCIETY FOLK VISIT ! SHOSHII ICE GAVE Men and Women Clamber Over Boulders to Visit Cavern. RISK ATTENDS TRIP Tourists Make Steep Descent on Rope and Crawl Over Slippery Surface TWIN FALLS Oct 10 E ghteen miles north and a 1 ttle east of Sho shone or some fifty five miles north and east of Twin. Palls 10 qu te an exten sive area of desolate f orb dding waste known as the Shoshone lava beds There are two interesting features of this particular region. One is its nn attractiveness and the other is a large ice eave near the center of the region The surrounding country is good agri cultural land This ice cave was discovered only a year ago but is already att acting many tour st part es The e are se eral other caves in the v c n ty but none as large or nterest ng as th s ce cave And only one other a n uch smaller one ' s 1 nown to conta u ce A prty of twelve Tw n Falls people ncludine Mr and Mrs W A Flo ver Mr and Airs J B McC a n Mrs E W Spangler M sses Jolena Combs Grace Hornaday Veva Amos Margaret Wil I ania and Jess e Warr ngton and C J Ee d and W Z Sni th recently motored over to Shoshone where they 30 ned a party of Shoshone people and made a tr p to the e cave The Shoshone party cons sted of for mer Senator andV Mrs Fred W Good ing and son, E G Good ng Mr and Mrs W Hale Home Fred Gwin, and M sses Blanche Gwin Kather ne Jen n ngs and Genev eve F tzpatr ck Roadway Smooth The Twin Falls Ha ley h ghway was as smooth as a boulevard The tr p from Twin Falls to Shoshone consumed only two hours and twenty five m nutes and the d stance from Shoshone to the ice cave was made in, fifty five minutes The five automobiles were left at a favorite p cme spot on the banks of B g Wood river and the party pro ceeded on foot over the rough lava c n ders and rocks a mile and a half to the cave One approaches the cave by descend ng into a deep chasm which appears to have been caused by a great cavein of the lava wh ch seems to have dropped some s xty five or seventy feet Great boulders fill the center and over these the party of twenty one p eked their way Down at the bottom of this chasm is the entrance to the cave It is only about three feet h gh. and one must enter on all fours Ice s en countered at the very entrance Squat t ng down and bending low the v s tor shuffles along for some twelve or fifteen feet to the brink of a twenty eight foot drop Here by means of footholds cut m the ice and a rope fastened to an ron s ke driven into the ice the de scent is made qu te easily and safely Lanterns had been lighted at the en trance, and at the foot of the twenty e o-ht foot descent each was g ven a 1 ghted candle Cave an Ice Palace The first chamber in the.cavern s 12o feet long 40 feet w de and about 30 feet h gn The second chamber s en tered at the rear and to the left and is some 80 feet long 3d feet wide and about 25 feet high The walls n both are almost perpend cular and the ce 1 ings are arched The floors are level sol d ice and warls and ce 1 ngs are covered with ce and frost The wall at the real of the second chamber s perpend cular and of solid sn ooth ce One of the most remarl able features of th s strange cave s that thaw ng takes place u the w nter and freez ng dur ng the summer |