Mohave County miner., 1884-06-29
CORRESPONDENTS.

1 DowsEY, Cal June 18th, 1884.
Ed. NrszB:-My apology (if | need any,
for sending yOu a short correspondence Is
that what shall write viii be Of interrs
to some Of your r5Adsrs. We had a
most pleasant trip across ths desert 1. e
Sheriff Steen, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson, Mis-.
( Mccarthy aud self; but doubt IL the Moxi
can convict tnat our sheriff was escsrtina
to Vans or the poor Iunatic Bates that
was conducting TO Stockton enjoyed ii SO
much.
! We got along without incident worthy of
note to Mohaye station on the =. p. X. r.
whers was forced to part eonpany with
my pleasant eompanions; they going to Los
! Angeles while went with my charge to
Stockton. Whist change one enoorntsrs
ia tho trip from the Needles 70 Stockton.
One travels all day over an arid desert, -
desolats that it would seem mother nature
must have exhausted herself in creating 50
much desolaiion.
Gray, sandy wastes relie.ed by numerous
ro.ky, barren mountains, that riso suddenly
from amid the sea OF sand 10 attitudes Of
5oJ TO eco feet. So it is sandy plain and
mountains, and rnountzins and sandy plain,
of coufse with the establishment Of the
everlasting c7ctus family, and the inevitable
greasevoDd from the great Col ,rldo TO
Mohsye river which yon frst strike at Dag
gett where we stopped at O'Clock for din
nsr.
But am discussing desert p1w, and shall
not qnit il for dinner ! say you strike ths
81 have hers, but IL is bnt 9 dry sandy bed
Wherein, when the waters rage they do
soirstimes spill down over the surf,ee, but
are usually at this point sunken and pnrsu-
ing Their silent course down the tortuaus
channel, 20 rae again A. FORKS os road .
miles easterly. But at Watsrmsn's, s mites
above Dizgsts, W have full hsdsed riysr
with grassy fats covered with beautiful
cOttonwooda.
la the language Of Tom johnson. "be-
meath whose unbracejos shades the Mohave
maids, use1 long ago TO afnble along with
that native grace only known to a child Of
nature" Yes. legend has il tEat genera.
living on tie Colorado, had their wigwsms,
fished and hunted along this river, that it
wes then prepetusl grand stream of pure
water. running from tlse east slope of the
san Bernardino nso=.ltains away to this
cast, that IL was filed with fish,
ard that the valley through which II had Its
course was fertile and stocked with game,
that one day big noise. the ground shook;
molten sand and rocks few through the air;
the river WAS Lost; many Of tue Indians were
killed; their country was turned into a
rexion inferno, and they fed from their
desolated country and toYk up their abode
on the Colorado.
Leaving the Mohaye river at Waterman's
we speed away across more sand, through
more grease wood and cactus, to Mohaye
Station. junction Of A. q r. with tho s. j.
It Is dark waea we moys from this last
desert station, and the next morning you
look ont of Your ear window upon vast
lieIds Of waving grain, hills Of feeding iocss,
orchards aud vineyards. coufortible-look.
ing farm houses and eyer and anon our
tr in pulls Up at nice thriving little vii
iaRo and one can hardly realize how be
comes 20 be t0is morning in the midst OF
fertility while yesterday we were wondering
at such steriIity that woaried the eye tho
whole day long.
Arrived a Stockton early Saturday morn
ing, delivered my charge TO DR.. Clark Of the
Lsngdon and Clark insane asylum where
.hers are ct 1t present - insane from An-
zona. Your readers viii DO Interested 10
know Of Martin Norman, alias indiana.
Upcn asking DIR. Clark about him he re-
piled: "a sad case, utterly gone, will not
satj We havo to feed him BY putting tube