Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-05
NIAGARA'S RIVAL.
ANONYMOUSLY BEAUTIFUL SHOSHoNE
 AND SALMON FALLS.

A River Running in Channel Which
 Looks Like the Grave of Volcano
 Robbed of Its Dead An Entrancins
 Scene Poetically Painted.
 Tho lava beds of Idaho are marked feature of that territory. Starting near the eastern boundary they extend south westerly for long distance, and are from about 300 to 900 feet in depth. This mass was once 8 river of molten fire, the making of which must have succeeded convulsion of nature more terrible than any ever witnessed by mortals, and long years must have passed before the awful fiery mass was cooled. To the east of the source of this lava flow the Snake river bursts out of the hills, becoming almost at once sovereign river, and flowing at first southwesterly and then bending westerly, cuts through the lava fields nearly in the center of the terri tory, reckoned from east to west, and about forty miles north of its southern border, and flowing thence with great curves merges finally with the Columbia.
 The two rivers combined make one of the chief waterways of the continent, and here and there taking on pictures of great beauty. On the Snake there are
 
 miles west of Pocatello, are beautiful. Some sixty miles below are the Twin falls, where the river, divided into two nearly equal parts, falls 1S0 feet. They are grand. Three miles further on, and nearly due south, and twenty six miles away from the town of Shoshone, on the Oregon Short Line railroad, arc the Sho- shone falls, and few miles further on the Salmon falls.
 THE BRIDAL VEIL AND TRAIN.
 Never anywhere else was there such a full picture hung In so rude frame; never anywhere else on a background so forbidding and weird were so many glories clustered. Around and beyond there Is nothing but the desert, sere, silent, lifeless; as though desolation had builded there everlasting thrones to Sor- row and Despair.
 Away back ill remote ages, over the withered breast of the desert, a river of fire 100 miles wide and 400 miles long was turned. As the fiery mass cooled, it's red waves became transfxed and turned black, giving to the double desert an indescribably blasted and for bidding face. But while this river of fire was in flow a river Of water was fighting Its way across 1t, CT has since made the war and forged out for itself 8 channel through the mass. This chan nel looks like the grave of a volcano that has been robbed of Its dead.
 But right between its crumbling and repelant walls trshsfguration appears. And such a picturel A river, as fordly as the Hudson or the Ohio, springing from the distant, snow crested Tetons, with waters transparent as glass, but green as emerald, with majestic flow | and ever increasing volume, sweeps on until it reaches the point where tho grand display begins.
 Suddenly, in different places in the river bed, jagged, rocky reefs are up raised, dividing the current into four rivers, and these, in Q mighty plunge of | way. Of course the waters are chnrned into foam and roll over the precipice ! white as are the garments of the morn | ing when DO cloud obscures the sun. | The loveliest of these falls is called "The | Bridal Veil," because 1t Is made of the lace which is woven with a warp of fall | ing waters and wool of sunlight. Above this and near the right bank is a | long trail of foam, and this is called are not so fair as the one called '.The Bridal Veil," but they are more fierce and wild and carry in their furious | sweep more power.
 wREATHED IN A RAINBOW HALO. | One of the reefs which divides the river in mid-channel runs up to peak, and on this family of eagles have 1 through the years, may be. through the centuries, made their home and reared abyss and amid the full echoes of the re- sounding roar of the falls. Surely the eagle Is fitting symbol of perfect fear lessnesS and of that exultation which comes with battle clamors.
 But these first falls are but @ begin ming, The greater splendor succeeds. With swifter flow the startled waters dash on and within q few feet take their second plunge in a solid crescent, over a sheer precipice, BIO feet to the abyss be- low. On the brink there is rolling sharp contrast, with shining eddies of green, as might @ necklace of emerald simmer on a throat of snow, and then the leap and fall.
 Here more than foam is made. Here the waters are shivered into feecy spray, winter and finer than any miracle that ever fell from an India loom, while from 1 the depths below an everlasting vapor rises-the incense of the waters to the waters God. Finally, through the long unclouded days, the sun sends l uo"H HIS Desns ano, Io S1to Iue 1 startling scene its crowning splen- dor, wreaths the terror and tho glory in a rainbow halo. On either sul- len bank the extremihes of its arc are | anchored, and there in its many colored robes of light it lies outstretched above the abyss 1ke wreaths of flowers above a sepulcher. Up through the glory and the terror an everlasting roar ascends, deep toned as the voice of fate, diapa- son like that the rolling ocean chants when his eager surges come rushing in to greet and aercely woo an Inexpensive promontory. Lake Tribune. l TT, FG H0TFE,