IMPERIAL CHURCH—FIRST WOODEN BUILDING IN LOWER COLORADO DESERT
Footnote:
[1] "Pegleg" Smith was a brother of the famous trapper, Jedediah Smith.
[CHAPTER XVI]
JOURNALISM BELOW SEA-LEVEL
The printing-press has sought many strange corners in the universe. It has, in these modern times, led rather than followed civilization. In the new West it usually is, first the printing-press, then the town.
One of the most peculiar phases of journalism is found in the desert region of California. There are, in the two great deserts of the State, four weekly papers, two in each desert. In the Mojave Desert are the Randsburg Miner, published in the gold-mining town of Randsburg, in the northern part of the desert, and the Needles' Eye, issued from the town of Needles on the eastern confines of the sandy waste.