Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — An Eccentric River. [ARTICLE]

An Eccentric River.

The Reese River Valley, in Western Nevada, is about 150 miles'long, but the river itself is very much longer. 'Jhe valley was evidently not intended to tit the river, but the river to tit the valley. In fact, that eccentric stream runs over and about the valley, up and down, sideways and all other ways, considerably on the surface, but fre-

quently taking a dive and disappearing through some subterranean channel for miles at a stretch; 'The stream runs in a continued series of bold curves and angles, without one straight section of a dozen yards in its whole length. If pulled out straight it-Would be forty times as long as the valley.