The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-23
Wonderfully Fertile Valley
Challenges Admiration of
Salt Lake Businessmen.
HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED
FROM A DESERT PLAIN
Now a Vast Empire, Where
Nearly AT Crops Can Be
Easily Grown
By A. F. Philips.

Special 10 The Tribune.
TWIN FALLS, Ida, May 22-It was
clock this morning when the boost.
CT special arrive dat Twin Falls, the
youngest, the most bustling city IN Ida
bo. Early risers on the special-and
there are a number of them-when they
looked out from the windows of their
sleepers saw what2 Many of the party
had visited this section of Idaho in
the Years gone, Many were here less
than three years ago 1t was then a
sage brush plain, part of the great
American desert But change has
comc. Like Alladin who nhe moved the
gcuIi and bade that geDii to do so and
SO, the wand of the American capital
ist has transformed the desert, instead
of the mystic personages who answered
the call of Alladin. AS the smoke from
the censer ascended the American man
came; the Western man, If you please,
the desert, made it blossom as the rose,
created an agricultural paradise where
you can grow anything but tobacco
and corn, for the dews which make the
weed of solace and comfort do not fall
here; nelthre can you raise corn, for
the nights are too cool.
But everything else can be grown,
There is field after field of red~top
clover, acre after acre of alfalfa, and
the great plain, as far as the eye can
see, is one vast field Of green.
Another Warm Welcome.
There was warm welcome accorded
the boosters and the day has been a
round of pleasure which this evening
rounded up IN ball rendered by the
good people Of the city, After the
parade this morning the boosters en-
tered carriages for drive 10 the falls
of the Snake river, the great Shoshone
Falls, the equal of which can be seen
nowhere In America, where the great
over precipice OF 30 feet, The view
is jndescribable. The falls are away
from the beaten path The differ from
the Niagara in that there is an awful
grandeur in their loneliness, But they
are being harnessed. Two months more
and this great water power will drive
Machinery that IN time will not only
furnish light and power for southern
Idaho, but Will do likewise for Salt
Lake and various towns in Utah. prac-
tically three hundred miles away, and
to various Nevada points. But of this
another story will he written
And above the falls, looking TO the
north from Twin Falls. vast plain ap-
pareptly extends as far as the eve can
see. Six miles out YOU come to a
chasm, gorge, more royal, more grand,
more majestic than the great gorge of
the Arkansas, through which flows one
of the great OF the greatest rivers in
the Western Hemisphere. This chasm
Is 1000 feet deey. with walls almost
perpendicular, One thousand feet be.
low the water in this great river. the
Snake plunges over 4 precipice in a
magnificent, mighty, a majestic tor
rent 2l0 feet below and then on to
Twin Falls. where il again plunres
on to Aueer Falls. where. another drop
Of 1916 feet is made,
Amid Sublime Scenery.
1t was in this great chasm this great
cleft, this great gorge III the once
American desert that the Boosters spent
the day, and tonight they are tired
but happy lot of people.
And when they came out of this
great chHsm, ascended again 10 the
plateau. l,500 feet above the river bed
past the blue lakes in the canvon.
where waters are as blue as the sky
above them aud with depth of forty
five feet. they again looked at an area
of fertile tiolds with an aggregate Of
nearly half million acres. all felt
that il was q day well spent, that i,
was good 10 live in country with such
majestic scenery, with such fertile soil.
with such progressive people as live
within the range Of the great Twin
Falls canal system.
The party was joined here this even.
ing by ID. 5. Spencer, Assistant Gen.
eral Passenger Agent of the O. s. H..
who was called home Monday night by