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Death Valley Chuck-Walla
Judge Ray's Pipe Dream
In a big land big things are undertaken
by big men. If you don't believe
this, ask Judge L. O. Ray. If
you can't or won't believe him, wait
until his pipe line from Ash Meadows
to Greenwater is completed and Greenwater,
the driest place on earth, shall
have an up-to-date water supply system. This is no pipe
dream. The Judge has lived on the deserts of Nevada
until he has acquired the sense of dryness, a sense that
ordinary mortals know nothing of, but in the desert this
sense guides men to water. It was this sense that guided
the Judge to Ash Meadows, from where he will draw the
water supply for Greenwater. He owns the ranch from
where this supply will flow, and he is backed in the piping
project by men with unlimited capital. It's a pipe dream
that is going through.
But it's a big undertaking, this piping of water from
Ash Meadows to Greenwater. The distance is fifty miles.
To accomplish the task the water from the level of the
Amargosa river will be pumped into a reservoir near the
top of Skeleton peak in the first range of the Funeral
mountains. This peak towers high ab6ve the highest
point in the copper district, and from this reservoir the
water will have a sufficient pressure to carry a tremendous
stream across the intervening desert and over the
lower range of mountains that lie east of Greenwater. It
may take years to do this work. It will be an engineering
feat to lay this pipe line, but, too, will it be for all time a
memorial to the men that promote this scheme, whose confidence
in the new copper find at Greenwater is sufficient
to induce them to part with more money than it
would take to develop the largest mine in the district. It
is such confidence as Judge Ray and his confreres exhibit
in the building of this pipe line that is making a land of
wealth- of these desert plains and mountains.
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