This spring continued to flow running dueβ¦
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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 βNew River,β 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:
βIs you fβom the Nawf, sah?β
The engineer replied in the affirmative and
she asked: βWhaβ state is you fβom sah?β