Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-27
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path was so moist from the spray that Blon-
din himself would have hesitated in its de-
scent Accordingly our guide took us by
sinuous path to q hight several hundred feet
above the falls. There, however, while a
good view could be had of the scene, it lacked
in detail and accordingly another place was
sought.s
On our way thither the guide d-
gressed, leading us down the precipice to the
very surface of the river. This descent is
one of the most perilous that can be imagined
The side of the chasm is almost perpendicu-
lar. Every iutting piece of rock and foot of
earth was bathed in dew. A single false step
would have hurled the unfortunate to de-
struction. He would have rolled from rock to
rock and finally found lodgment in the raging
waters which dashed against the base Of the
solid walls below. The dcscentw rendered
possible only by the use of a half inch wire
cable which led down the steep sides and
which was fastened atintervalS to the rocks
along the route. In a couple of instances
slippery ladders were employed where the
cable could not have been used for a hand
rail. BY means of these agencies the party
saturated with rain, perspiring from tugging
at the cable and, to a greater or less degree
covered with mud reached the river. There
men and women passed over Il number Of
rough rocks strongly suggestive of gigantic
mussel shells over which the undulating and
angry waters rOamed undirected. Between
these rocks were hundreds of varieties of
driftwood which the action of the waters had
worn from angular into Wellrounded proper
tions.
Our path led to "Dianas Bath and with
knightly propricty it was suggested that the
ladies should enter the place first This they
did and upon informing us that we might
enter the sacred precincts, the gentlemen
followed
The 1alr huntress had evidently finished
her ablutions, because the place was tenant
less. The bath is one of the many caves
l,A h,ng lNrt tl,n nstN nft I,N
water, and is about thirty feet deep by two
hundred feet high In the middle of the en-
closure is a pool formed 10y u crystal stream
yelling from the rock beneath. 1t was in this
that the goddess had bathed her shapely
form, This, too, served as her mirror. Her
jewel Casket hung up the rock whore per-
petual string of pearls trickled from crevice
and another passing over bank of ferns was
Transformed into the brightest of emerald.
The young women were charmed with the
spot and desired to linger, but the men, not
feeling at home in my ladys chamber, with
drew, followed by the fair ones, after several
cards had been left for the goddess of the
place,
With much difficulty we re-ascended to the
summit of the precipice. The sun was shin
ing warmly, the mist was rising perpendicu-
larry because the winds had gone TO rest.
Shoshonc falls We're TO be seen in all their
glory. But who can paint that glory! Six
years ago when this wonder came into the
Creighton, of Omaha, and b. f. Clark of
Butte, Mont, read description OF it for
the first time Since then have read what
has been written of the falls by Judge Good
win Of Salt Lake, Lieutenant King, formerly
OF the army, and our own Hon. b. II. Bar
rows 1t is needless to state that the descrp-
tive efforts of these gentlemen are in them
selves gems But the grandeur and glory
and mpressiveness OF Shoshone falls, never
theless, wIll be experienced by no man who
fails to see the great miracle itself The
Union Pacific sends two trains daily each
way within twenty-five miles of the place,
and the trip will repay any one who can ap-
prociate what is both beautiful and sublime
Two hundred feet above the falls the Snake
flows between basaltc banks 500 feet high
Its surface is scarcely more ruffied than that
of mill pond. Suddenly, however, it en-
counters rocky upheavals against which it
has been flowing for centuries. The trans
parent waters are divided Some flow to the
right, some to the left, and others are i'm
peded and lashed into foam, but the stream,
with its wonderful power, dashes, forming
within short distance three small falls, two
of which face the west and the other, larger
than both, describes an ellipse toward the
south. A short distance in advance of the
two falls first mentioned and on lowerplane