The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-03-31


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ana -. - N $ Is south n M ssme range
n mcslntalns he win re rising N, ffop the val
lev ftsalf mountain eleyation-Mount Nei,o--
that reaches The height Of thirteen thousand feet
above the basin. ~ Al
~ nor prsrRAtx LAND.
This country. however beautiful to look unon.
u not Q desirable country In that elevated
country It scarcely ever rans and it ia only along
the base az the mountains that the land i s,s.
ceptible Of cultivation. Set,lements are scatter.
cd along. commencing NJ Oregon. and tracing
their way along the mountains Isse to New MeT.
loo But these settlementa An, AZ thoss no;ufs
ONLY along the mountains where streana l,ov ont
enabling the persons that reside in the couutrv
Ia cultivate the all Al msnv nI,ees ForTsffv
or hundred milee along the mount,ins the
lands are not susceptible of cultivation far the
want Of water Wherever however there Is
water. the lands have been taken nm and are
nov under cultivation. and are occupied nv the
people of the country. So far ne ,he country il
concerned il ia. therefore nat Of "a character of
soil generally susceptible of cultivation. the ~
sources for that purpose are limited Even while
there are many valleys still flu tn r n In the des
ert that will furpish iiue grazing vet there he;ng
no continuation of these n ada Il l. mott ,hc
for tillagr -
This charactcr Of country extends across to
the west chain of the great Cor,,;lleros called
the Sierra Neyada. = -
! 5t- +. THE RUNNING wATyRs
All the streams that seem to issuc from, these
high mountain ranges md their course imn,c,l;.
ately along the base ofthe mountains, hut SO soon
as any of them dare venture ON the great basin.
they are ~ widowed I'M 81 the sand On tho nnrtI
II che Humboldt rising In tie grotesoue noun
tains. This stream NAV be traced along the
lmountains ON the north of the basin into Carson
Valley vet when it gets into the yiciuity of Ser
"a Neyada it changes lite course. str;kes for the
Desert, and scarcely makes any headwav befo re
II IL swallowed up by the sand. 81
In looking at the country there is one matter
that strikes the observer with great force. He
can see, all over the country. broken chains of
mountains, evidences that the entire valley has
been covered with water: and he will trace on
the SIDES OF the mountains benches OF washed
sand, and all through the valley he will discover
marks and liaes ,nanifesting beyond doubt that
that great basin vas at one time filed with wa
ter. The water in the basin seems to have been
gradually declining, and the great Salt Lake it.
self at this time is gradually disappearing. 1t
now does not in point IT size, compare at all
with the nccounts that are given of it by the ear
lest trsppers in the mountains; and even the
4ormons tell US that since their settlement Of
the country, but twelve years ago. tine lake has
been falling away. 1t bears around the edges Of
it, evidences Of this fact. 49,. :. a
THE SALT LAKE. E.l ~
i. The lake itself is great curiosity Situated
there, forty-6ve hundred feet above the ocean, a
perfect sslt-bed, three buckets Of water, we are
told, making one of salt; and We are told hy
those familiar with it, Mat it stih continues TO
increase in the saline quality we find round
about is saline springs that are still pouring their
deposits into the lake, yet the lake is going down,
and the wateris still becoming more strongly i'm
pregnated with salt. What the result will be
no one can tell; it may become SO much Of salt
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