Arizona republican., 1918-03-24

(Continued from Page One) may find as many rainbows in the mist of Shoshone as his imagination desire.
 Just a few miles further up the Snake River are the picturesque Twin Falls, not quite so high as Shoshone but interesting, because of of the way in which the torrent has been di- vided by giant rock which stands sentinel on the brink of the chasm.
 A few miles north of Twin Falls are the wonderful Blue Lakes Of Idaho. As we drove along the canyon walls, three or four hundred feet above the lakes. so clear was the water below us that we could see the gravel and fish on the bottom of the lake in water twenty-five to thirty feet deep. The color effect of the water is most remarkable. When looked at from an angle it is a genu- inc azure blue and is worth travel ing hundreds of miles to see. Mex, morning we crossed the Snake River desert where the temperature was the hottest one often encounters in this state. A few hours driving how ever, put us in the Sawtooth noun tainS.
 By noon we had climbed Galena pass and were slowly dropping down into the wonderful Alturas Basin, a large mountain valley with the cli-
 mate of northern Canada. Here the snow lies seven feet deep for six
 months in the year, and the only way the inhabitants know that spring
 is coming is by seeing the tops of the c.. l.
 snow. All travel during the long
 winter is by skies and dog sleds. Provisions have to be hauled in during the summer in sufficient quan- tity to last until the following sum-
 mer.
 In the upper end of Alturas Basin, the Salmon river has its origin. This virile mountain stream gathers vol
 ume and speed very quickly and within a few miles of it's source is a river, perhaps fifty yards wide and four or five feet deep.
 We followed the Salmon river for a hundred miles in it's mad and tor tuous plunges down the canyon. Part of the time the road took us close to the rivers brink. At other times, we skirted the canyon walls, hundreds of feet above the stream. The road was barely wide enough for one vehicle, and the turn outs, when there were any, were several miles apart. Fortunately we met only two cars on this hundred mile leg of the journey,
 so isolated and so little travelled is this very interesting country. Only a short ride out of the canyon, we came to the town of Mackay, which is one of the most unique communities in the United States. Perhaps no other town or city can boast of natural cooling system for the entire municipality during the summer, and natural heating sys- tenn for the entire municipality dur ing the winter.
 Mackay draws it's water supply from two mountain springs( one of
 which has a temperature close to 1 freezing, and the other one almost | reaches the boiling point. In winter 1 the water supply is drawn from the hot springs, and is piped through all ] the stores and residences in the vill- 1 age. In this way the whole town is | heated without material cost to the | population. In summer, the water
 from the hot springs is shut off, and | the water from the cold springs is | turned into the pipes where it flows through the buildings of the village and perceptibly cools the atmosphere.
 How many millions would New York or Chicago give for such a water
 system.
 The following morning we travelled northwards to Idaho Falls. the great
 est originating point in the United
 States for the shipment of agri-
 cultural products, thence to St. Anth
 ony. thewestern gateway of the Yel- | lowstone Park. From this point we
 could see the magnie'r-> TAfo-