Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-08

TOT uunufeUS OI ulleS IL = waters are
navigable, and with the increase Of
along it's banks barges and
steamboats, will ply it's waters and fur
nish scene like that witnessed to-day
upon the Mississippi or the Loire.
Springing from the region of perpet-
ual snow among the towering SUBMITS
and glaciers of the Rocky mountains
and leaping at times from rock to rock,
or ploughing it's weary way through
elevated regions of fdisintcgrated basalt,
1t affords thousand opportunities of
being tapped In order to fertilize the
arid plains below.
The Snake will yet prove as bounti-
full to the people that must in time To-
cate along this valley rs the Nile has
been to the people that dwell along it's
banks. Every one of it's thousand
tributaries can be made subservient to
the use and benefit of man, while
the main river itself, coursing through
valley, through deep canyons and over
cascades and waterfalls, can be utilized
for unlimited manufacturing power.
At Shoshone, the Niagara of the
West, the river tumbles over a precipice
200 # deep and rolls away westward in
the midst of clouds of foam between the
walls of deep canyon, which 1t has
burrowed out during prehistoric ages.
AT other places 1t forces it's way
through rocks and precipices, carving
the mountain side, and rejecting in its
green waters the shadow of the hills
and woods that at times o'erloOk it's
banks. Again it winds along amid the
peaceful landscape where grow already
the apple and the peach, where cattle
browse on green pastures, where the
reaper gathers In bounteous harvest,
and where the merry children of the
pioneer are happy on Its banks.
But 1t Is in the northern part of
Idaho that nature revels in her
grandest and widest moods. From
the edge of the Snake valley to British
Columbia series of rolling mountains
extend for 800 miles. Between those
mountains are gorges, glens, canyons,
ravines and valleys, through which
rush rapid rivers or tumbling torrents.
Above, the mountains rise with their
caps of snow amid the clouds, and be-
low the waters roar as they rush over
the rocks, or murmur as they glide
beneath the shadow of mighty cedars,
older than Christianity itself. No
where in all the world IL there such q
commingling Of nature in her grand
and sublime moods as in those weird
wild glens and valleys Of Idaho. The
rapid torrents, begotten of the melting
SHOWS and glaciers Of the mountains
uniting In deep valley to form river
Of wonderful depth, theL flow on till
confined between barriers that compe
it to spread out into lakes of the dimen
sions Of inland seas, and of almost un
fathomable depth.
These lakes are studded with islands
and surrounded by overhanging hills
precipices and mountains, WHEREOF
grow the finest forests Of pine an(
cedar that the eye ever rested on
Cedar, tamarack and pine flourish lux
uriantly on the mountain side from tn
shores Of the lake, or from the rive
banks Up and beyond the very limi
Of perpetual snow.
This wondrous forest growth
clothing hill and dale, gorge, ravin
and mountain, adorning the pictui
esque islands embosomed in Its lake
and thriving up amid the glacier
and beside the everlasting snow,
forms the Enthusiastically beautift
scenery Of Northern Idaho. And ye
for centuries the unappreciative savag
or the tabled divinities of the lakes an
woods alone reveled in the beauty q
this enchanting scenery.
No other epithet but enchantin
will portray the loveliness Of thl
most glorious land. To gaze upon th
deep, dark waters of the lakes en-
bosomed amid those mountains, I
view those fair wooded isles that d.
their surfaces and to see them gro
darker and darker away in the distane
to where they are Lost at the base ,
some mighty mountain, or to wheI
they disappear amid densely woode
; |shores, or to watch the tiny wav,
break upon the strand, or the sun sinl
ing to rest behind the wooded hills an
|, snowy mountains while purpling Il
, surface Of those Alpine lakes with b
. farewell beams, or to behold the 60
. dess Of the night rise, pale and love-
above the eternal SHOWS Of the hui
mountains shadowed In the dal
waters below, and then - think tn
, all this beauty, sublimity and grande'
has laid hidden and concealed ffum