Show it great american desert still exis geological survey hw ins complied compiled THE a special report on oil the driest dilt est portion of tit alio country dry front from every point of view because most of the region even tricks locks water the great Ainer ienn desert anys the survey may be roughly ro described ns as lying within a vast triangle its base Is miles ion long lying along tho the southern thern border of california arizona 1 I izona new mexico and part of oc texas and the eldis extending northward to oregon there Is much land anti within tills this tract which is not desert but nearly nil the desert land tile alie nation includes may limy be found within these general boundaries for years 5 ears tile the geological survey lias has been making explorations of the great triangle it lias has just concluded it i report on what probably Is the driest section the region of tile the stilton sal ton sea the salton sen sea district occupies about square nilles of southern california and for the most part Is ns real a desert us as the famed sahara itself it Is possible to travel an entire day traversing an expanse as is largo large its as some of the eastern states without hearing a sound and perhaps without seeing a living tiling thing unless it be an occasional insect or some soine reptilian creature enormous panoramas spread out before the desert tt traveler nat axy cell eer MM lit upon miles of drifting sand baking the blazing sunlight give one alls a 1 I sense bonse of vast fre freedom edoin or of opp oppte ston slon depending upon ills his mood L at temperament and although the sun blazes f I 1 tc air Is bracing tile the are vi id dively cold nowhere in the wo says tho the survey do tile stars seem P bright as in the alie heavens above t b desert deseri occasionally the desert tra tn eler cornea comes upon palm tree oases ahk look as though they had been trac tra planted from eg egypt t or arabia the survey issues the warning till clr the tenderfoot easterner must t think that because this desert Is si part of the united states it ha has i tho the safety and all the modern a acci ot of tin nn american city ant the contrary ralio american de cestr can hold as many terrors as the wit est a weeps sweep of the sahara one of the special fasci fascinations nad ons abor abo the salton sea pen basin Is 13 the fact til much of it lies iles below the level sea A curious fact about much ORA desist land Is that while it appears to lei vold void of all possibility as a produce prodie d vegetation till all that desert soil is water to make it highly product lyt |