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WON'DKKPI'L HI VKK SIN KS.ilojo Imlcpnudent.j Mono and loyocuanti-s have ibe most notabl* sinks iu (be world. Probably Kig Owens lake receive* us much or more waior iban ibu Humboldt B.uk. Ii is noi true, however. that tb* tjuautily of water is at all time* (be sauj^; (bo great lake is now some four feel higher (ban eleven or twelve year* ago. The umouut of aoow.fall in tbe moauuius i« Ibe ouly thing governing it. Xu Hummer faeut the total amonot oI evaporation from lU vaxt expanse af water is incaloulabl*. and doubtless faruiebes moisture for tbe Winter snow-fall of tbe adjoining high Hierra. Tbe minute panioiea of minerals and ^Val.ea gathered from the aoil by tbe U ° y itig streams are left 10 pola-Cioq i tb i ke, aud duribc tbeoeoiari a °f lbiktfoA’: Ukb hw Asaotn d U Dead Bea ooaract-r. in wbiob no living thing can «siat, aav* worm* and amah npudoecript water fawL* Mono lake la Idlly twelve feet higher than it was tuany year* ago. Af tbe nortbwaat oorner of tbe lake a«-ar tbe Freoobtnao'a tbe post* of u former sheep corral oau be seen far out iuto the water. A p re-* top tor recently appeared in tbe United Sutra Land Otto* to prove up bis claim located tire or six yvars ago. Of tbia 160 acres be stated that ail bat forty aorra was under water, and he very naturally did not wish to pay for more tbau that amount. Some ascribe tbe f*ot of tbe water mu.g to an inore*Bf-d amount of snow on tb* mountains over former lime-; 8om* believe that the turning of Virginia creek iuto tbe lake ha* canned tbe oQaugr, wbil** some hold to the theory tbat hoili -ooret outlet to tbe lane becace filled up Wbatfver may be lb* oaaae, tbe fact is evident that tb* lake is rising at the rats of a loot or two a year. To le are numerous evidences that in former tiuitt Mono lak* ■ xu-nded over a v**t extent of territory—o- rtaioly ten times as great a* now. I* it oot possible that iu the course of time it may again assume its auoi nt proportion*?
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The Pioche Weekly Record
Pioche, Nevada, US
Sat, Jul 05, 1879
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