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To: dennisw

>I think he also had a book on underground bases in our arid Western states.

I suspected that too when I went to Cadiz, CA and there’s a huge orchard in the middle of the desert with jeeps patrolling around and no reason why they’d have an orchard in the middle of the Mojave.


6 posted on 03/27/2026 12:12:46 PM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle

“I suspected that too when I went to Cadiz, CA and there’s a huge orchard in the middle of the desert with jeeps patrolling around and no reason why they’d have an orchard in the middle of the Mojave.”

An apple orchard is unlikely, date tree groves they do have. They are tourists destinations.


9 posted on 03/27/2026 12:16:07 PM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard = There is no limit to human stupidity.)
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To: struggle; dennisw

This may be the explanation for the mysterious Mojave orchards-

https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/the-trouble-with-cadiz/

“Below Cadiz Inc.’s holdings lies the Fenner Basin, an ancient aquifer estimated to hold between seventeen million and thirty-four million acre-feet of water, “

“Over time, Cadiz Inc. amassed additional properties, including remnant checkerboarded parcels previously owned by the railroad. In addition, the entity has operated an agricultural “front” growing lemons, grapes and other seasonal crops on 9,600 acres at its Cadiz Valley property. Cadiz will likely continue with its modest farming enterprise until its ultimate goal, mining and exporting the water below them to distant coastal Southern California municipalities, is fully realized.”


73 posted on 03/30/2026 12:16:15 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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