The mystic mid-region, the deserts of the Southwest . ight, loose particlesof soil and ha\e piled them up in crescent-shaped hills at various places about the hills vary in size but not in shape. Eachmound is as true a crescent as is the newmoon, or as could be constructed by the most 2o6 The Mystic Mid-Region skillful landscape gardener. The proportionsare carefully preserved in the various mounds. The horns of the crescents all point east-ward. The winds all blow from the the Walking Hills, they travel slowlyacross the plain, preserving their shape andproportions but grow
The mystic mid-region, the deserts of the Southwest . ight, loose particlesof soil and ha\e piled them up in crescent-shaped hills at various places about the hills vary in size but not in shape. Eachmound is as true a crescent as is the newmoon, or as could be constructed by the most 2o6 The Mystic Mid-Region skillful landscape gardener. The proportionsare carefully preserved in the various mounds. The horns of the crescents all point east-ward. The winds all blow from the the Walking Hills, they travel slowlyacross the plain, preserving their shape andproportions but growing a little taller, a littlebroader, and a little thicker as they go, becauseof the new material which is continually beingbrought across the plain by the constructivewinds. There is, no doubt, some good and sufificientnatural cause for this peculiar unalterable law of nature is probablybeing followed in the shaping of these sand-heaps, but thus far no one has been able tooffer an explanation for this remarkable freakof the CHAPTER XVI JOURNALISM BELOW SEA-LEVEL Tl 11^ printing-press has sought many strangecorners in the universe. It has, in thesemodern times, led rather than followed civil-ization. In the new West it usuall) is, firstthe printing-press, then the town. One of the most peculiar phases of journal-ism is found in the desert region of are, in the two great deserts of theState, four weekly papers, two in each the Mojave Desert are the Rcuidsbtii-gMiiie?-, published in the gold-mining town ofKaiulsburg, in th(; northern part of the desert,and the Needles Bye, issued from the town ofNeedles on the eastern confines of the sandywaste. The Needles is the metropolis of the upperdesert country, and the Needles Eye is thelarger of the two papers published in thisdesert. The town has a peculiar history,inasmuch as in the first fifteen years of its 209 2IO The Mystic Mid-Region existence it stood upon borrowed ground. Insi
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