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Food for 75 Million. To reach such dry areas as the Lahontan Basin of Nevada or the Mojave Desert will be a long, costly job. But the Bureau of Reclamation is forced by the nature of its job to look far ahead. It takes years of exploration, surveying and figuring to find the best course for an artificial river. More years are needed to design and build the dams and pumps. So the bureau feels that it should plan for a time perhaps 50 years hence when the growing U.S. population will really need more food and will...
...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...
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