Show playground of the wind As mysterious and uncontrollable as treacherous and as entertaining the vast ocean which lies only a few leagues west 0 its borders Is the great of sand which forms a large portion of california s greatest desert known because of its proximity to the river of that name as the colorado desert this desert Is the winds favorite playground he comes over the moun bains from plowing the mighty deep and works strange fancies in the all able sands he duplicates the great billows of the turbulent ocean he imitates the rippling waves of the placid sea he carves and builds and plays at artist sculptor and geometry clan when he becomes weary of alls sports he lashes himself to fury and tosses the sand a mile high in the air and flings it broadcast over all the plain whirling and hurling the particles till he obscures the sun and brings a suffocating darkness to the land on the east side of the desert he 1 at present busy a railroad already he has burled many 0 the telegraph poles which stand along the way and he has invaded the right ot way the road and the company Is busily fighting to hold possession until a new line which Is being built around the intruding hills shall be completed then the rolling billows of sand will be allowed to sweep on undisputed in the southwestern portion ot th same desert Is another range of travel ing hills these are more wonderful however than the ones which are men acing the railroad for upon these the wind has practiced his skill at carving geometrical figures these hills are known as the crescent hills each Is the shape of a true crescent the points of which are toward the east A hill which Is fifty feet high Is found to be feet thick at the base and feet from point to point of the duplicate horns of the crescent it a hill Is twice that hight its other dimen alons will be found to have doubled also little and big they keep their proportions as they move slowly across the plain new york tribune |