Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Desert Land Made Beautiful. [ARTICLE]

Desert Land Made Beautiful.

No fewer than 12,000,000 acres of land have been made fruitful in the Sahara Desert, an enterprise representing, perhaps, the most remarkable example of irrigation by means of artesian wells which can anywhere ba found.—Philadelphia Inquirer.