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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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network of canals over the eager acres. The Carson sink in the old days was a forty-mile desert, through which laythe emigrant trail to the Pacific. Herelay a three days journey from one endto the other without hope of a drop ofwater. It became a great wildernessgrave. It was said that one could walkacross it on the bones of the animals thatstrewed the trail with the white monu-ments of that awful torture it was leftfor the desert to invent, death from thirst.As for the men and women and childrenwho were taken out of their canvas-covered prairie schooners, dead for lackof a cup of water, sometimes their graveswere marked by a gun-barrel or iron roddriven in the soil. In the digging of themain ditch, three wagon-loads of thesewere dug up and carried to the river.To add to the pathos of the many trage-dies buried here and there across thiswaste of death, there is the heart-break-ing fact that these bones he within six Digitized by Google Uncle Sams Romance with Science and the Soil. 43
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DIVERSION DAM AND LAND IN CARSON RIVBR. ter, which has been found in 8tato. PloJect. ^SJW jJSSL tils twelve feet deep. And no Construciion. Irrl«al>le- as there to know, and there Washington,.Palouse, 3,800,000 90,000 * +KA~> ** m~ao *U«+ *k^ f™,« Wyoming,...Shoshone, 2,250,000 125,000 3 there to guess that the foun- ifi^... Payette-Boise,... 1,300,000 850,000e lay just under the parching i pillowed so many a head of A large number of reconnaissance andr 0f thirst. preliminary surveys have been made andlieved by the hydrographers Plans a*5 Wng prepared for numerousurveyed the state that artesian other projects in the several arid statesthe underflow of streams and and territories. Many important in-n eventually be utilized for vestigations have been made of under-al 1,600,000 acres in Nevada, ground water resources of several drain-in the works under construe- *8e basins, with a view to utilizing thed to above, and others, nine water in the various sections whereinire been

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