Southern California; . large, heavily loadedwagons are employed, drawn by from four to ten ortwelve horses or mules. Two wagons are frequentlyfastened together, and the horses driven in one mules are also used for transporting supplies toand from the mines, and a train of these patient littleburros with their great packs strapped securely to their. backs but wobbliug with every motion :1of the beast, is an exceedingly pic- ^turesque spectacle. Nor do the resources of the desertend with its minerals. Unaccount-able as it seems, this barren, sandysoil only needs water to make it bear a
Southern California; . large, heavily loadedwagons are employed, drawn by from four to ten ortwelve horses or mules. Two wagons are frequentlyfastened together, and the horses driven in one mules are also used for transporting supplies toand from the mines, and a train of these patient littleburros with their great packs strapped securely to their. backs but wobbliug with every motion :1of the beast, is an exceedingly pic- ^turesque spectacle. Nor do the resources of the desertend with its minerals. Unaccount-able as it seems, this barren, sandysoil only needs water to make it bear abundant }- the proper direction and application of the waters ofthe Mojave River certain portions of the region can beconverted into a garden of wonderful fertility. Naturehas demonstrated this by the grove of beautiful cotton-woods and willows which line its shores, and which insummer form an oasis of refreshing shade upon leavingthe heat of the sandy wastes. This river is not like thesteady reliable streams of more favored lands. Risingin the San Bernardino Mountains, it flows off over thedesert for some distance, a goodly stream of cold moun-tain water, and presently disappears wholly from flow^ing for some distance as an invisible sinkit emerges again as a rather broad but shallow } it is once more dissipated in the
Size: 2063px × 1211px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorkeelerch, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1901
