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Show from the S<on siea can have'beea'but'little' if any more than fr6m the same number of square miles of the gulf just below it. Of course there may be a scientific foundation for the belief that it is going to make Death valley, 200 miles northwest of it, a garden, but up to date the proofs are lacking, and the supposition is too shaky for belief. We hope the most sanguine expectations may be realized, but we would not advise any friend to sign a petition to the President not to interfere with the vagaries of the Colorado river, lest when the scientists of the East read it, they may say, "This is to make us laugh." NO MIRACLE FROM THE S ALTON SEA. We cannot understand the foundation for the belief that the unusual rain and snowfall over southern Nevada and southern I'tah Is due to evaporation from the Salton sea. Doubtless the summer evaporation from that lake is very trreat. but it is three hundred miles south of say (JoldhVId. Nevada, and does not compare in volume with our own Salt lake. Then it is but a few miles distant from that e;reat arm of the sea. the (iulf of California, Cali-fornia, and only one hundred miles distant from the Pacific. Hard and mild seasons po and come over all this great basin. When the pioneers came here in 1847, they went dry-shod over to Antelope island. Hut since then the lake has come clear up to the shore at Garfield, and has apain receded. We think the rain and snowfall in the winter of Wil-'B'J. the fall through November. December and January, was far in excess of what came in the past three months. Carson river, in Nevada, which Las about as much volume usually as has the Jordan, Jor-dan, was a little Niapara. and the country was so soaked that the pedestrian sank inches in the mud. The present season has been most extreme anil wonderful. Unparalleled snowfalls have overwhelmed over-whelmed Kurope. even as far as Constantinople. It has been falling amonp the oranpe proves of southern south-ern California, and even across the bay from San Francisco, at Oakland. It has been the same way in the l'upet sound country. Since the first of November, the evaporation |