Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — Guide Posts in the Desert. [ARTICLE]

Guide Posts in the Desert.

Prospecting and traveling to the great southwestern deserts always have been and probably always will be attended with danger. It was about a year ago that an appropriation of 35,000 was made by the California State Legislature for the erection of guide boards to the California deserts to guide travelers to water holes. A more extensive movement has been launched by the introduction of a bill into the United States senate by Senator Works of California providing for an appropriation of >IO.OOO for the purpose of enabling the secretary of the Interior to discover, develop, improve and protect streams, springs and water boles to the desert and arid lands of the public domain and to construct and maintain suitable monuments and signs near lines of travel Me as to Inform travelers where they can slake their thirst —Mining end Engineering World. !■ V.:; .7 '