This spring continued to flow running due…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

This spring continued to flow running due north for twenty miles, then was lost in the sand. In places it was two miles wide and from four to twenty feet deep. When immigration in 1851 moved by the isthmus and the northern route the miraculous water disappeared, as its mission was accomplished and its divine work done. But the memory of the “New River,” that was caused by a sand bar below Yuma will long be remembered by the thousands benefited by it in 1850-51.