Show signposting THE DEISE DESERT RT the united states geological survey de apartment part ment of the interior has surveyed and signposted a great area of the most danger ous desert region of the united states the thirty ninth annual report of the too graphic division of the survey just made public describes the method employed of making the desert safe to the unwary un W ary tra f veler the region surveyed occupies about 60 square miles in southern california and southwestern arizona in california it includes the southern so part of death valley I 1 j and the region between this valley and the mexican Alex ican border in arizona it includes the region re on west of tucson and phoenix and south of wickenburg and parker this region was selected because it is the driest hottest and least explored part of the desert j region and also because of the strategic im of obtaining information on the water supplies along the miles of national DAMN I 1 frontier that it includes the field vork was done by four parties each of which con aisted of one geologist and one assistant outfitted with an antoin automobile obile bile and ad practically 21 ah light camping equipment watering places in the region were esam ea of water were ca col 0 ined about samples lecter and shipped to the water resource laboratory at washington D C for analysis made mad e of tte th and a general exploration was ta geography geology 6 and 6 groundwater ground water ca cor editions of the region the maps prepa e availably avail abl made and the data obtained were to the army engineers for incorporate the U unit of the he progressive military map being eing states guides with maps are pared for publication erected it to water breer yere signs directing ar and in in california j localities 9 zed ivani are a the signposts zona WIT diameter and an 19 inches in outside in is anchored anchored post each feet long the t ground round with two redwood blocks white galvaniz galvanized ed are are 18 gage steel dark blue letters and are ed to the posts they are of two 1510 10 nine nin and teen by twenty inches of fie of of signs alga inches most of the larger large r at IQ were erect erected edo give the nal nes places s 0 and directions to four watering caterin wa terin V which 1 th 0 of t t signs ad of the smaller erected give the names dist distance the ot watering P places rebe eli hoi erections ions to two done last year is a part of a the wafe por dor and 01 ni arking 04 plan for mapping lyda arid d re regio 14 t ar places in the entire cascade braoo cas and the sierra nevada running rull inibig de line of and west of a g sl it through josf vita from eastern 0 regon oregon 0 f IV and santa fe to the mo be I 1 |