Emery County Progress | 1906-01-27 | Page 5 | Reclaiming the Sahara Desert |

Type	issue
Date	1906-01-27
Paper	Emery County Progress
Language	eng
City	Castle Dale
County	Emery
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
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Article Title	Reclaiming the Sahara Desert
Type	article
Date	1906-01-27
Paper	Emery County Progress
Language	eng
City	Castle Dale
County	Emery
Page	5
OCR Text	Show reclaim ng the sahara desert As a result of recent scientific in it may be passive to re vise our the barrenness of the sahara desert since it has been found by boring that there are numerous springs mch rise to the surface and make possible a system of irrigation in the ten tory to the so ith of algeria a government irrigation irvey has been at ork mal ing a series of deep test boringer some of are as deep as 2000 feet in thia vav con sid erable water has been encountered and in certain oases already twice the usual amount ot ater has been made available for the palm gloves har pers weekly
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