| Show THE MONEY OR THE beauty of remarked the civil a seat beside the nature student as the train died out from Shoshone that it enables jL to utilize the natural We have just Ln over to the and we think of forming a company to use of those millions of tons of water lw daily going to do you propose to asked the can put the water into pipes and let it fall so as to generate power for electric motors then we can convey the electricity on wires to various towns and use it for street and house for running and for operating electric will your profits amount inquired the least inside of five the said the reddening with while a look of astonishment came over the face of the practical yesterday I stood near and under those which I have traveled miles to and they have no superior on the whole what of asked the said the those falls the water for commercial and the American in all the generations to will be deprived of the most soul-stirring spectacle that this old world has yet don't mean that you would keep the falls simply as something pretty to look asked the hard-headed rush and roar of that falling the student vent like giant like like like everything I have ever as we looked upon the cloud-like masses of crystal foam that better be said the engineer to a probably out of his Others asked the student how they might visit the he team from along the winding road that run's through endless blocks and cuffs and ravines formed bv the great lava flow that race covered thousands of square miles in these parts f the The of this lava has covered Jany valleys with a fine soil of amazing It's Hood day's ride from but less than an the city of Twin m Why is this stream called the Snake some vast serpent among the crevices m fields before it reaches the mighty Columns rolls int the We were ferried e river above the the roar of the occasionally reached us while we were yet many and could see the rising like fcC curline the rocks and then into the dry is remarkable about f feet in their various m furlongs in But so magnificent is their What do they look like I inquired combinations of rapids and and plunges precede the grand and there from a yer the whole r in S a rift in the lava rock that forms the bed of th s creeping The roar of the waters is the mass down the long The sun shines making continuous new and vanishing so that long strands of glistening beads and with various colored gems that suggest the gleam m the falling and give to it a rare richness and Does not the water look white banks of snow and huge cottony bales it forever rolls changing into spray as it nears the and arising in feathery of intangible grace that clothe the surrounding cliffs in many gossamer garments while fairy forms of the most artistic patterns cling to the black and deck their naked outlines with every phase of loveliness in graceful you get beneath the asked one of the you for we stood on projecting platforms of lava just at the foot of the where the water boils up like giant caldrons of soda water or of piled-up Arctic The water ouzel was singing through the on that last the temptation to warm summer and at plunge into the sparkling fountains became In we after most of our clothing upon the told you he was said the who had rejoined the the student but dangerous this seething water went on rocks lie and caverns yaw tosses breath the surface but we enjoyed did you get uP for T should think feet on each there are a of lava lava row but m there no pictures of artists have yo plenty of done the best oto and sky water an a r of and their panoramas ve d photographers f f e even for e obtained special them a pie everywhere who see fall better by their beauty and and to try moved thousands he had have ft g handed to the student composed about the The engineer studied the lines for then handed the paper back with the remark that the poetry wasn't worth thirty-five cents of any man's I have stood alone by that falling Where sublime Shoshone revealed to me The loveliness of nature's the grace of In whose banks of foam and falling mist Pearls and diamonds ruby and While fairy forms of floating grace softly my temples And I've seemed to float from the earth away In some fairy boat of lace-like rising on ethereal swift neared the realms of in you standing near my While a dewy rain from the thundering tide Fell past and a cloud did the earth from us And our the soft clouds I. aas- spoken of Western As to men of deep of Keen in suave in Like the cavaliers of Eyes of fire and hearts of an Eastern visitor has but recently reminded us that the Mountain West produces more homely men and more handsome women than any other place he ever I cannot explain this yet we know that the abundance of iron in the strong soil and the never failing sunshine from the bright and brooding skies are the prime elements in producing the appetizing colors upon our luscious fruits as well as the brilliant hues of our native Iron and sunshine in some account for the frequency of those Western phenomena observed in and eyes Like harebells bathed in Cheek that with carnations vies' And veins of violet j n Like spirit bands of fairies While man was God seemed His love to us Till a fierce with sword-like Dissolved my and you fled Alone I stood by the falling mocked by the laughing Man's Conquest of Nature Mind Triumphs Over And after it is it is that gives to tins material universe all its and all its it is not even were it to separate study of man from that of I have already It is their deeds' that we most and Western heroines have equally with the the- brunt of the battles of pioneer To select one out of many those who ever as did the those scenes of primitive desolation which characterized the valleys of the Snake now redolent of and groaning beneath the weight of grains and fruits which they know something of the transformation wrought in a thousand other places similar to As you drive through the broad valley of the Snake river on either side of the new and thriving city of Twin a scene of agricultural beauty is probably few equals in any newly settled re- As far as the eye can on every hand well-tilled young and In half a dozen years the transformation former desert into the present series of farm-gar-of a has taken and the actual result is one of scenes of frequent occurrence in the regions of the comfortable farm homes that dot the surround- the large business the paved J the electric lights of the modern the spirit tunes is now Jf as and many f oron a revoir h i for the 75 The success of these of acres of larger modem cities in moro additional ana the a center of wealth and n f one the ol the HUC progressively THE THE THE THE everywhere evident are a unique develop-This t to the enterprise of Western turning has from the of the waters of the Snake by dam at so as to irrigate the lands ia of the Snake Eiver which are now Dg UP with prosperous The first mm project is said to have cost five millions of ol the HUC progressively page 0 The Money of the Falls from page less enchanting but more serviceable scene of beauty produced by human It impossible not to share the regrets which nature-lovers feel in the already too in the grandeur of the wonderfully complex panoramas that constitute the and majestic scenic excellence of the Shoshone it must be allowed that the gain in human happiness and prosperity is more than a full equivalent for the The bleak and tenantless valley is changed into a land of rich vegetation and pleasant which contribute so much to both the prosperity and the happiness of our great national If our study shall give us anything worth it must frequently reawaken recollections of those days of grace in early which heaven gave to each of us before our troubles the the That thrilled our hearts in The impulse of a The dreams of love and The as for something The spirit's yearning The striving after better hopes The things which never Nature never fails to give us something that is than all measures of delightful Better than all treasures that in books are Yet the things which have not died from memory the aspects of life which have had the strongest hold upon the sympathies of the have ever been timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in his The kindly word in grief's dark hour That proves a friend The plea of softly When justice threatens The offerings of a contrite heart These things which never of nature's beauty and meaning is rap- extending among the and it man but in relation to his 18 proper study for |
