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...southwest corner of Idaho is a rugged land pocked by ancient volcanic activity. Once a desolate region covered by sagebrush, it has been reclaimed by irrigation. The soil, largely volcanic ash, is fertile with minerals. The rock beneath is honeycombed with caverns and air pockets, the result of ancient, igneous intrusions...
...West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station at Jungo, a tiny hamlet on the Western Pacific R. R., 36 miles southwest of Jumbo Mine. Price...
Until last June the Moffat Line ran west from Denver through the Moffat Tunnel, down the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and out into the sagebrush where it stopped 346 mi. short of Salt Lake City. When Denver & Rio Grande Western completed the Dotsero Cutoff which linked the Moffat Line to its main line into Salt Lake, Denver for the first time in history was on a through transcontinental route (TIME, June...
...were seized, five breweries put out of commission. Fire threatened the business district when enthusiastic agents ignited a great stack of mash barrels. Arrested were 80 bootleggers, bartenders, speakeasy proprietors, girl entertainers. After a twelve-hour "clean-up," Las Vegas was reported to be as Dry as the surrounding sagebrush. Declared Col. Seavers...
Gauntly in the sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building...