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Show SCENIC MARVEL OF IDAHO. Why the Oeneral Public Knows So Little About tho Wonderful Bnnke River. Tho world Is loss familiar with the Snako river of Idaho than with nny other river of Importance In tho Inltod Stntos, and et It Is our seventh sev-enth largest river more than 1,000 miles long, says Hie World's Work. It Is one of tho most wonderful and Impressive watorwn)s In tho world The few who have tried to follow Us winding courso through wild nnd for bidding oxtonts of lava plateaux do sot wonder that so little Is known ot It. for no railroads traverse the life-less life-less dosort that borders It, and no boats for hundreds of miles nt a stretch, dare ply Its waters. It Is navl-sablo navl-sablo for only 100 miles from Its Junction Junc-tion wllh Iho Columbia to the Idaho boundary, and In several Isolated sections sec-tions of tho Interior. 1'or the greater part of Its course It Hows through old tin) magnificent canyons of Its own making through desolato and awful tastes, (h0 rUUt of vomiting craters tnd of convulsions of the earth |