The Arizona sentinel., 1891-07-18

vicinity of Big Holes, which are IS miles north of the Mexican boundary line, and 8 miles north east of Indian Wells the water was greatly agitated, with very strong current running to the westward from Alamo Mucho. When he saw this water moving so rapidly he concluded that it sank at Big Holes and came to the surface on the other side of the rim in the bed of Cariso creek where the In dians saw it only a day or two be- fore. He came on over to the AL godones and found that the Di- guenos had moved to the sand hills and the parties he wished to see had gone up the railroad to- wards Salton. He went to a point near Salton where he found them. When he was ready to go home he started directly across the desert for Cariso and when out about 30 miles by the trail, he encountered a large stream of water running north. He followed up the east bank of the stream which, he says, was, so far as we can judge, from his iGea of distances, from 100 to 300 feet in width and from two to 20 feet deep. He met the Patton expedition near the west end of the great bend, about 15 miles from Indian Wells. He said that the little boat was jumping and bobbing on the waves of the tur- bulent stream, that a thin man with gray beard (Carter) stood in the bow, and that the boat was going faster than any horse could run. He said that the falls in places were from five to 20 feet high and that the water was cut ting and tearing down the banks, and great masses of earth, clay and sand falling into the wild, roaring, mad stream.
 The old man said that the boat was out of sight, almost in a min ute, going down, down, the boiling, seething, mad current to the new inland sea. He marked out in the sand the location of Salton, the lake, Cariso, Indian Wells, Big Holes and Alamo Mucho, run ming northerly for 17 miles, cut ting through underneath the sands which fill this branch of New river, then turning almost due west for 25 miles (estimated), then back to the east and south of east for miles making a grand loop 60 miles or more in length, and then coming back to within a short dis tance of the nearest point reached towards Indian Wells, then run ming directly for that point, and along the level summit till it gets opposite of Indian Wells, and not more than 15 miles distant. The old Indian said that they saw a large number of beautiful lakes, some large, others small, some very deep, others shallow, so that they waded out into them. The lakes and river were full of fish. He saw several quite large streams coming in from the west, which he believed came from Indian Wells or Big Holes. He said that they could plainly see the great sand hills in front and near the old stage house at Indian Wells. There the river takes a zig-zag course, running here and there, lodging among the sand and clay hills, on it's mad way down to the Salton basin. He says that never in his memory, which extends back cer- tainiy for S5 to 90 years, has the Indian Wells or Alamo basins overfowed into Salton lake. His grand. fathers told him that they remembered when it did do so Thursday his friends near Alamo took him across the new stream and he left for home.
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