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Show Lieutenant Behoeman, of tho Wheeler exploring party, whoso operations oper-ations last summer were confined to the country on tbe Colorado river, reports that nearly the entire country between Lob Angeles and the Colorado river is a desert, which it will be difficult to utilize, owing to tho scarcity scarci-ty of water. Ho decides that Senator Junes' schemo of forming a lake in the Colorado desert is impractiblo, at least in tho section which bo visited. This is rather a poor country to support sup-port a railroad. |