The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-07

marked with great patches like
snowbanks. but It is the foam and
spray of the waterfalls where the
subterranean rivers leap out into
space. These tumble down down to
the base of the cliffs, having trees,
brush, underground, moss and water
cress, and form series of reservoirs
and lagoons where waterfowl and
trout feast on the creepers and wig
glers that flourish in the crisp vege-
tation that grows in the fresh cold
water. Year in and year out, the
water scarcely varies in volume or
temperature, and along its course
are natural parks suitable for lux
urious homes for myriads of wild
animals and waterfowls.
Cataracts in the Air
The game farm is a part of the To-
cation known as Thousand Springs,
and the power plant of the same
name just above the game farm
makes use of some of the stream
pouring from a cliff. A mile below
it, and at the center of the. game
farm is private power plant fur
nishing power and light for all pur-
poses about the farm, including heat
for Matching eggs in battery of in
cubators. Every few miles along the
river there looms power plant,
and great, black serpentine forms
(pipe lines) crossing the canyon
at intervals are carrying water to
distant irrigation works, while on
the western side high, arid plateau
known as the Bruneau project Of
fers nearly a million acres for rec
lamation, as yet untouched excepting
by the tripods of the civil engineers.
On the eastern side of the river runs
a railroad known as the Bliss-Rupert
cutoff, following the farming
lands and missing the heavy grades
of the main line.
Castles On the Bluffs
Along the top of the bluffs east
of the game farm is level plateau
affording fine view of the canyon
and valley for great distance, and
across the river the Bruneau plateau
stretches away to the Jarbridge
mountains ON the south. Wealthy
persons desiring to build castles on
the heights for summer homes, or
investors wishing to build cottages
for the use of visitors of more mod
est means, could help solve the hous-
| ing problem that will arise as the
game farm develops into great at
| traction. On the occasion of the
writer's visit to the place, the first
Sunday in May, one hundred and
seventy carloads of people went
down the scenic dugroad and wound
about the meadows and woodlands,
turning the glades into auto parks,
and enjoying all the sports of the
zoo and it's varied wild life. And
the country is not settled yet. Only
the vanguard of the real population
has arrived. 1t will require rapid
development of the game preserve,
and rigid protection and preserva-
ton of it's resources, to preserve it's
natural conditions.
Not Sport but Murder
Already the sportsmen, so-called
have formed the habit of lying in
wait in squads behind the natural
barrier of bushes that line the myri
ads of duck ponds, and NOW down
the ducks in flock shots as they des-
cend into the water. The game
breeders association proposes to en-
trap some of the choicest wild ducks,
amputate one wing at the first joint
so they can only fly in a circle, and
in that way keep them there for
breeding purposes. The young will
migrate in the fall but all that sur
vive the winter will return to nest
there in the spring at the place of
their birth. They propose to give
perpetual protection to waterfowls
on this 400 acres, so that bird life
may know that in all their life of
struggle and lookout, they can de-
pend upon it that so long as they
stay in the Thousand Springs resort,
all will be peace and rest for them.
When they fly over the boundaries
of thiss preserve they invite the aim
Of the hunter. Idaho has fifty-four