Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1920 — Land Worse Than Worthless. [ARTICLE]

Land Worse Than Worthless.

The desert of Gobi In central Aria, where bone-dryness has been the fashion for thobsands of years, is also a difficult place to obtain a drink. I Its largest streams either vanish in tbe sand or emptv into salty lakes. Caravan routes from»Ohlna to Russia are still Important trade channels, for the Russians insist that a sea voyage destroy* the flavor of tea. This great arid waste Is 1300 miles wide and 400 miles demand the almost rainless veera id nee antiquity have parched Its aands to the dryness that drifts J gyrating sand waves god snuffs out , ,■ 1,1 -4»— 1 -