This spring continued to flow running due…

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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 firmly believed, of divine Providence. 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. Close Relation Some years ago an engineer was wanted to construct a branch railroad in the central part of Georgia, and an Iowa man, skilled in the profession of engineering, was engaged. While traveling along the proposed line he called at a modest looking cabin and knocked. In re- sponse to the tap a colored woman came to the door and the negineer asked for a drink of water. She immediately brought him a cala- bash, but noticing that the gentleman was evi- dently a stranger inquired: “Is you f’om the Nawf, sah?” The engineer replied in the affirmative and she asked: “Wha’ state is you f’om sah?”