The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-24

another RrilrOad freights would b,
cheapened so that our people couIC
engage in manufacturing enterprise
and the failure prosperity of Oul
town would be assured. Let III
raise the $50, 900 aud secure the roaC
A Description or ShOshOne Falls
Idaho Territory, GIVen By Our
Idaho Correspondent.
Mn. EDIToR:-A few weeks ago
your correspondent in company
with the Congressional committee
appointed to visit this reservation,
VISITED these falls, which is attract
ing 80 much attention just now
l promised in my last to tell yOu
something of this country, aud with
your permission, will give you a
description Of these falls.
In order to visit these falls neces-
states a ride of twenty-five miles
in genuine concard, pulled by four
horses, presided over By one OF
those thoroughly western character
a Rocky Mountain stage dryer.
He is generally tall and angular,
sun-burned and JoVial, full of
stories and border vernacular, will
always take a drink when pressed.
and lOftily smoke q protiersd cigar,
holding the same at a ferOcIous
angle and eating about half Of it.
The road is good and across a desert
that makes no pretense, No streams
or springs gladden. its barren surface
broken only by CRASHES knolls aud
blocks of lava. The horses fairly Ry
the downward impulse Of one hill
sending them up the next. The
only pause is at the station, where
there Is tank Of water, and where
the horses are changed, The ques-
item arises where does all of the lava
over which the stage rolls come
from, as there are no volcanic mOunA
tains for hundred Of miles. The
whole area was once Rsimmering mRss
that being submerged resulted in
many curious fractures. into some
OF which Sn article dropped will 20
blinking from side to side till the
noise dies away apparently without
the bottom being reached. In such
a crevice the Lost River disappears
never 10 be seen again.
The desert seems to have no end.
The Snake River is Indicated by
no sign, when all at once, from the
edge of a vast chasm, smooth be-
tween stupendous walls, it ID seen
fleating hundreds of feet below.
What power has wrought this sculp-
ture? 1t dOes not seem possible
that water, even in untold ages,
could wear into the lava and granite
leaYing the pillared heights to testify
ita mark. 1he roar OF the falls 10
heard, and picking their way down
the artificial slope, the four-in-hand
pause within ear shot Of the sOlumn
music and the baptism Of The spray.
Having arrived in the evening, 1T
Is well to rest in q luxurious bed and
wait the revelation of sunlight. 1t
comes in a wave that seems a CLEAN
of intelligence pouring over the
mighty canyon. The walls rising
hundreds of feet, dark lava. eaten
the gIint before it reaches the bottom
of the gorge and the river, aud from
heights to height the beacons Of the
morning flash signals. There are no
mountains by winch 20 judge alti-
tude, but a drop out of the world
appears ~ be taken. lhe over
Whelming massiveness of the gorge
battles ali eye measure OF the stupen-
dOus rift out Of which u climb would
be impossible. The close-pressing
lava towers are sombre as u prison.
house,
After breakfast boat is found
in o little willow frInged bayou and
launched upon the open river where
it has brOadened almost to q lake.
But silent, stern, powerful the cur
rent sweeps along, That cloud of
steam ahead arises from Shoahone
Falls, and that ceaseless clamOr is
the great voice of Its waters. There
is an easy trail upon landing which
leads through a border of fir, and a
rest is taken upon point lookout,
Just then the sun breaks forth in
renewed radience and from cliff so
cliff there springs a bow as perfect
as was ever made glorious in the
heavens, an arch OF beauCeous color
ing against a black ground OF gilt
tering, bead-hke foam, tumbllng
IN crystal chaos 200 feet, the Clrcling
halo losing its basis in the turmoil
and the mist, but Its crescent un-
broken above. The foot hold of
rock QuiYers, gentle bath dews
the uncovered head, the spirit
scars LOFTY as the illumined spray
there is a spell like that of name
less melody in the awfulnesS of the
irresistible plunge. Niagara Is
diHerent but not superior. When
that is calm, ShoshOne is tempestu-
Gus. When that pourH over evenly
Shoshone bursts into a million wild
jets. each with a diamonds luster,
Where that Is environed by common
place landscapes, ShoshOne dashes
from between rucks stately and
ume-stained and nearly a thousand
feet high, Seven destinct channels
are 10 be seen, forming number a
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