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Show CsUIFORNIA S S ALTON SEA. , . At. last the Colorado river has been turned back into its natural channel and the Saiton'sea has no Jonger ah inflow. It was a great feat ' of engineering en-gineering to turn- back the river,- but if was finally accomplished. . It. was not done, however, until a big lakf was formed covering hundred-' of square miles, with from 6 to 130 feet of water. And it was f onnd- that; in some ways the: sea thus formed was a great" blessing in softening the air and in spots which hail always been desert crops now mature ma-ture ' without irrigation. The theory , advanced is that the" large body of water so moistened the air through evaporation, that the rain clouds, which before be-fore the' hot air of the. desert had robbed of their moisture; -were able, to , pass over and. precipitate their moisture on the desert beyond, and the question now isVnether it would not be a good thing to maintain main-tain the new-formed sea. One Eastern-paper sug-, gests that -an arrangement be made with. Mexico to do that. "We cannot see how Mexico can be much ;,iiiiactul ' T ii tma that. trtA rivAT' flntvrs frifnufrli Mexican territory some fifty miles after leaving the United States, but it is through a worthless sandy desert, and the river is practically worthless for navigation. The volume of water does not spacially benefit the Gulf of Calif ornia. . If the - air can be made softer and the land improved by the new sea, it ought to be supplied by a flume from the river. |