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chunk 1019 · paragraph 1434
at St. Louis the A. T. & S. F.
will make rate of one fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale from October 3 to 8.
From Ihe October 9, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise
The Legend Of New River
How Water Came in the Desert After
a Child’s Prayer
From the La Junta Tribune.
In the early fifties a party of emigrants on
their way to the gold fields of California by the
southern route, via Gila river, crossed the Colo-
rado by ferry left by Graham in 1848 and
“struck out on the desert for the land of
promise.” The trail was well defined by aban-
doned wagons and the bones of horses, mules
and human beings. Struggling through the
yielding sand, the thermometer at 120 deg.,
wheels falling apart, animals dying from heat
and thirst, they on the second night out, halted
some ten miles from “Cooke’s Well,” with water
in their kegs exhausted.
Tradition states that a little 10-year-old
girl was heard praying, in one of the wagons,
for water. It states that in her childlike faith
she said :
“O, good Heavenly Father I know that I
have been a very naughty, naughty girl, but
oh ! dear, I am so very thirsty, and mamma, and
papa and the baby all want to drink so much.
Do, good God give us water, and I will never,
never be naughty again.”