New River place
Summary: A miraculous spring or river that appeared in the desert near Cooke's Well during 1850-51, caused by a sand bar below Yuma.
Completeness: 60/100 Grade C
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discovered
caused by a sand bar below Yuma— 1850
cited from This spring continued to flow running due… (1891)ght depression near the wagons, and on
investigating the cause they found water gush-
ing up out of the sand, sweet, clear, but warm.
Their sufferings were over, and they reached
the mines better and wiser for this interposition,
as they fi…
disappeared when immigration in 1851 moved by the isthmus and northern route— 1851
cited from This spring continued to flow running due… (1891)ght depression near the wagons, and on
investigating the cause they found water gush-
ing up out of the sand, sweet, clear, but warm.
Their sufferings were over, and they reached
the mines better and wiser for this interposition,
as they fi…
owned
flow running due north for twenty miles, in places two miles wide and four to twenty feet deep— 1850
cited from This spring continued to flow running due… (1891)ght depression near the wagons, and on
investigating the cause they found water gush-
ing up out of the sand, sweet, clear, but warm.
Their sufferings were over, and they reached
the mines better and wiser for this interposition,
as they fi…
Sources (1)
This spring continued to flow running due… ↗
1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details