Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-29

irnpresses YOU with it's tremendous size
even here among the high mountains. Out
from the same on the down stream side
run three great pipes 1t is well to re-
member that these pipes are six and seven
feet in diameter. for we are to see them in
a little while when they are only thirty
inches across and a little later we Will
see them when they are but two and three
quarters inches across. These three pipes
which emerge from the dam, like black
snakes, dash through the bottom or a
hill just In front of YOU and disappear.
Swinging Hundreds of Feet I'm Air.
There is some talk about being at the
tump-off Just now. There is consulta-
ton. The managers of your trip are
doubtful about the better way to present
this thing to you. In a nervous sort OF
way you gather that you are going to be
taken down something and there is an air
about It that you don't fancy. You are
conducted out upon an open platform. You
don't have to look over the edge. You
know without looking that you are on the
edge OF the Mexican roof, that this IL the
place you Jump off II you go farther.
Beneath you Is a sheer cliff $50 feet high,
then there Is a shelf and beyond that
another cliff that measures 75O feet. You
begin TO understand how the water In the
pipes has a fall Of 1,6OO feet.
But you have lost sight OF the pipes be-
cause you are decidedly busy with some
thing elsa The platform upon which you
stand has swung out over the precipice
and YOU are in midair. The crowd is
marvellously quiet. They are looking at
a cornfield on c mountain above. 1t is
said that the owner OF 1t fell out of his
cornfield one day and broke his neck.
A Fail that Ends in Mist.
There Is a man IN charge OF this plat
form. He is fat and good-natured. He
comes from Kansas City, Mo, and Is In
ollned 10 tell you about what happened
two months ago when the company physi-
elan was swung up here in mid-air for
three hours because the MINDLESS engine
broke. But no one wants to hear him
Just then You find that his name is
Gist and get him to talking about Mis-
souri,, while you try to forget that swing
ing cable which Is holding you as you so
down. down, down.
II takes eight minutes to reach the
shelf Here you are led onto a fiat car
with a cable tied to one end, and this
cable pays out and let's you slide slowly
down to the second, jump-off, If $50
feet looks like a thousand. $50 feet straight
down looks like a mile. This precipice is
eoncave and covered with foliage flowers
over II spreads q stream OF water that
spreads into mist before It reaches tbs
bottom. This waterfall and precipice is
casiiy the most beautiful piece OF noun.
tain scenery / have ever seen. You steI
on another platform ana again swing into
mid-air down the trembling steel cable
There are no spectators. Even the engin
GERS above do not watch you and there 1,
no one at the bottom, although YOU fee
that you are doing something that ough
to call out as much interest as Wilbur
Wright is accorded. II might be bettel
II the platform had rails for guests 4
hang to and 1 suggested 10 the man from
Missouri that the company ought to tax,
a little OF the s00.OOO,00O gold It is puttinl
into the plant and build some rails aroun,
these asroplanes. You reach the bottom