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Show HIGHEST AND LOWEST PLACES; IN THE COUNTRY established by spirit levels and without regard to settlements and watering i places. . SACRAMENTO; Cal., Jan. 18. R. A. I Farmer of the United States geological survey left this city last evening upon a mission that may establish, in accordance ac-cordance with scientific requirements, the exact height of Mount Whitney and also the lowest point in the United States. ' , ... According to mercurial testa which are deemed unsatisfactory and liable to error. Mount . Whitney is anywhere from 15,508 to 16,530 feet in height. Mr. Farmer, who is to take charge of a corps of Government employees at Mo-Jave. Mo-Jave. and who will direct the running of a line of level to Owen's lake, across th Mojav desert, hopes to use the acquired ac-quired Information as a basis for a calculation cal-culation mathematically and scientifically scientifi-cally correct. The same Investigation will show the greatest natural depression- in the earth's crust. The surface of Death valley, popularly supposed to be the lowest in the country, has been estimated esti-mated at from 100 to 500 feet below the level of the sea. The expedition will be a hasardous one, as the survey party wilt be obliged to follow the lines |