--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 16 number: 7 published: 1913-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Ice Cone on the Snake or Shoshone River," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 7 (May 1913). source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1607unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1607unse rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1607unse publication_year: 1913 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Ice Cone on the Snake or Shoshone River ICE CONE ON THE SNAKE OR SHOSHONE RIVER Photo by Nephi L. Morris Pres. Nephi L. Morris, in describing this natural wonder, says : "This very singular ice formation was made by a water fall which flows over a basaltic ledge about 250 feet high, which forms the south wall of the Snake river, immediately opposite the beautiful Blue Lakes and the famous Perrine Ranch, about four miles below the Shoshone Falls. "Before the water reaches the ground, it is broken into small drops and spray which in freezing weather forms a stallactite draping on the somber-hued walls of the Great Gorge, and where the main stream falls, forms a hollow cone which bears the appearance of a crater, through the open mouth of which the water passes and flows down through the cubical lava rocks and eventually loses itself in the Snake river. "The wagon road semi-circles the crater, mid-way between the top of the Gorge and the river level. By comparing the wagon with the crater, some idea may be formed as to the magnitude of the latter. "Imagine the brilliancy of silver, blue and green hues which the sun would enliven on this strange formation. This enchanting color effect is only equalled by the marvelously beautiful Twin Lakes which gleam like two colossal sapphires in the bed of the Great Gorge."