New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20
Witch nature administers It. enough could be

NAV In which nature administers IT, enough could be
grown on the fields of the Great American desert to
brown Even now, plants which supply them
selves by sending tap root down t TO- water like the
does the barrel cactus, are able 10 grow to great
The Alfalfa grown at Manse, just the Nevada
line or at Imperial. down in the lower portion OF
the California desert have no doubt of the future OF
a region that produce such as these OF course,
as il true even IN the most fertile and best watered
sections of the entire state there are parts OF the
desert that would not produce the commonest weeds
as that Immediately surrounding Salton Sea;
owens Lake and Death Valley are unredeemab ne
fItre roye more valuable for their mineral wealth
~ ayerv acre of the desert there is something OF
value something that will return an immense lneI
est on the capital invested il 1t be properly oeNe'
oped. ,.u .,o srs+ .;,,,o ro,ot-atfnr be-
You'd the borders OF the desert one of the most pc
culiar OF sill the features of the great drleqout
and others which have sprung up under similar
conditions Of settlement are In no way ;5fse
Of real homes set up by ters Of soil who in
tend tend to s2R The genuine town Of
ton is a mining camp, and its inhabitaRds L9 IN IN
the most cosmopolitan population to be fonnG IN, IN
any settlement be II crossroads village or tegmi.ns
city the world: Here arc gathered tle i ne ever
Know while mingled with them are STURDY miners nd
NV tba hone If n last lucky strike and some OF
them make it. oqt the great majority hGye on lives e
better promise of wealth than the one on Wh lS
Rs g3 past the experimental stage and now
supported by such paving mine as the 1em0w
Of it's life almost every has some seftea GG
ulation of the faro bank or the hazardnis
miners from their by some less , u
4eLho4m!he xane but with the great majority i
mining either as the hired men i 0l Zach work
ING rrecarious existence out of some hole ii a ,
h4 ne9 91 Tre-o are the tearnsters without whom
no desert town could long exist LOT t4e
&c he degree Of business life there is in the settle
ment As sr T'tf ebtjng Crowd yet they know he
desert ne few city know the street IN mnC
tney ~ troI,rie or out Of it, than some Of the
men who handle the twenty-nuie TEAMS u ~
III FIo 9T9 rat have already said It may be easily
eatbered that the desert town is not very Pefna
the photo ali the houses are or the illlls ms &, ~
structon some Of The people living IN tents IN me
burg at is decidedly cold ana stormy e ntfeT
e@ ne snqn5oned mining camps were built, the Only
material al f4ho e V Ieonging to the leading mining
COMPANY were made Of that nlateIlal ~ - ,,ify{t
easi beliSve he had landed in the mids OF SONS SONS
ItIeI tfotti@s scattered round about through the
o,nr1t" streets deserted village that once sheI-
fere5 two thousand three thousand sous now nov,
firi5 IN the heart OF the Great Basin; is lonely
place and soon learns to prefer is G him to to
sleep to spending the night in such Pi eo ga
also Rorate. not to speak OF 6eaumohl III hlNeiSiNo
County. l..,.e...,,o 5osor. g., ,,iduin+er
G.
Is the fnest to be found in the world. bar none
The air is balmy. the days warm the nights gooI
enough for comfortable SLEEP Mosquitoes; meas cas-
and other Insect pests are unknown lsaVe by the
Indians. ana halfbreeds. whose society II Is not
necessary to cultvate), while flies are aOSouteiy d
minus quantity the desert No one can comptan
of lack Of air to breathe Of delicate appeute.
i'm this region. and If one-half the one lungers,
come. half dead swell CallfOrnldS death ron
were 10 make their camp the desert. instead OF
i'm rhe midst of n crowded city they would return
within the SPACE Of tWelVemOnth the very pct
l1ros of rugged health. Given a roll of blankets,
good rife and ammunition enough for three months,
and any man Of sound common sense and n fair
knowledge of the outdoor world can live like king
on the desert. and at the end of his first three
months have enough money to buy ammunition and
tobacco tthe only things you really need on the
DESERT for the next quarter Of a year A few fox,
coyote or wildcat pelts of which hard 10
obtain will put several dollars into mans pocket
in short order 10 say nothing Of the uncounted dol
lars YOU VIII add the bank account OF nfe-the
only thing after all. which is really worth saving
I have neither time nor space here to go Into de-
tails regarding such trip. bat it can be made with
great degree Of deprivation. only one must not
expect feather beds to sleep on or electric lights
and automobiles in barren plain two hundred
miles from the sound Of the railway train But i
any Is really IN earnest in this pursuit OF
health and all that accrues therefrom. the writer
will be pleased to describe to him how one man
spent not three months. but twelve. on the desert
a capital OF less than so.