Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-09
|EClLAIM A DESERT.
Io Turn Death Valley Into an Inland Sea.
Where Human Beings Cannot an Account of It's Extreme kzaat and Ariiity-A Huge Undertaking.

xvh.re Human Beings Cannot
 W an Account of Its Extreme
 s!k.aat and Aritiity-A Huge
 Undertaking.
 .zz<,op q the many schemes now agi-
 N irrigationists is the reciaiming Famous "Death Valley" in the
 1nerican desert. It is proposed
 sls 1t an inland sea by turning the 1x<,,r snoyys and rains that fall upon
 z;;syra Neyadas into this "dry sea. !"
 ssIlAv Is two hundred feet below
 4.,o,. of the desert, is one hunared
 <tv miles long, thirty piles wide Hc Ii northera end, tapering to about
 E, miles in width at the southern
 zS.i4v One of the schemes to re- fI,e !fhe desert is to turn the Colorado z fnto the lower end, or, as 1t Is ;jaa the Colorado desert, from which <sx would naturally seek it's level 1f1eath valley. Another gigantic .zsne is to tap the ocean by Q system .s.sals. This would reclaim millions > Billions of acres of land by mod @<szF the torrid climate, and perhaps a;ls13ng this desolate region habtta- 563s other beings than horned toads, E<1Ssnakes and lizards. AS the re- 5s.,of3on. If feasible, would require |. .xnendAture of several millions of 31sr@ besides leakage, 1t is doubtful, sz lie Chicago 1ribune, whether ess will lend listening ear. It
 f1eved that when Death valley S5 have been filled with water the SI ma ton of the entire upper portion aesert is assured. AID opposition i313G|at is that as the sands of the des- 25 Nsorb the streams that trickle
 Fl from the mountains before they zIEs much progress the absorption ,u1d be very rapid; or, in other ,rss. that the valley would not hold .fer: also, that as the temperature < a81 from no to 136 degrees the year znd the absorption would also be lip oreat. The schemers admit that s Absorption would be great, but ef X would decrease as it became x3ffIed and would soon become so 
 EhAv deny that the valley will not 16 water by proving, to their own sz6ction at least, that several cen- ri6s ago the entire desert, including s hot valley, formed an arm of the 1f of California. In proving this, { Of the promoters of this gigantic aene told of finding the timbers of old vessel in the desert about one ndxed miles inland. But, the usual lfI pioneer" comes forward and up-. \ that method of inductive reason with the statement that in the rly days he and others built ferry kt md started with it to a point on ; Eolorado river, their OK teams dy- { from thirst, the boat was aban- ned, and was soon covered by the |fting sands.
 Those theories, and more. will all ne to the front as soon as the pro !&ere of the enterprise begin the agi- ion. There is no fear that 1t will Ieaant to anything, yet congress has !le many impraeticable things. 3eRth valley is the hottest place on sth, so far as known up to date. er6 Is no spot so deadly, more deso- 2 and so thickly strewn with dead. h Appropriately named, for human ! AeAnnot exist amid it's poisonous va E. 6nd even the birds are infected t1 Its noxious gases and fall dead in ~ light. Heavy rains never fall in
 death-deaiing place, and the few IF Showers only make the atmos- m nore humid, if possible. With Thermometer at one hundred and 1ty -six degrees in the shade, and the Eating against the black bristling l74a refecting back the intensified one may form some idea of this |R4ete region. It is the dryest place nc world-the bodies of those who hed from thirst have been found
 <ter years completely mummified. &&orpses were not disturbed by even
 Rowling hyena. Animal life can list there--only the reptile species.
 have died from thirst, and yet
 f was within reach.
 W blistering heat and dryness of
 eir rendered it impossible to ' the body to the proper temper M to sustain life. This valley
 named by Gov. Blaisdell, of Ne
 lie and few others were mak- 8 survey, and found the mummifed ms of about twenty emigrants, 1 in attempting to cross the valley,
 their way and died of thirst and &Tation.