Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-02

being forty miles, while its waters
stretched away to the south as far as
the eye could reach.
The two sailors who had gone with
the sailboat from San Pedro returned on
last nights train. They had had
enough of life on desert sea with the
mercury ranging between 130 and 135
degrees in the shade, and of sailing out
into the great unknown. They left the
boat behind them, and early this morn
ing it was the intention of the railroad
men at Salton to make another expedi-
ton.
WATER FOR SEVENTY MILES.
w. H. Treichler arrived last night
from Yuma. He said that nothing was
known there as to the source of supply
of the great flow of water. The state
ment that it came from the Colorado
was all guess work, as nothing was
known at Yuma about any break in the
bank.
Mr.. Treichler added one piece of IN
formation of great Importance. He
stated that the news had reached Yuma
that the place called Indian Wells,
which is about seventy miles to the
south of Salton, and about ten miles
north of the Mexican line, was in the
midst of the sea, but whether the water
extended to Salton or not was not
known.
ENGINEER HAwGooD's OPINION.
Resident Engineer Hawgood, of the
Southern Pacific, yesterday, in CONVEX
sation with HERALD reporter, said:
"We really know very little more
about the mysterious sea at Salton today
than we did at first. Road Master Null
vihill navigated the lake for distance
of twenty miles this morning, and found
the water in its deepest place about
twenty-one inches. 1t is evident that
more water is coming in, as the surface
is constantly though slowly raising.
"Where it all comes from is mystery.
AS near as can figure, the whole Colo
RADIO river would not supply the amount
that is now in dry lake, if its entire
stream was turned into the desert. There
is tremendous amount of water there,
and that is really all we know about the
matter.
"That the Indians take the matter
very seriously is evident from the fact
that they have all stampeded and left
Mr.. Durbrow, the superintendent of the
salt works, who telegraphed here today
asking that gang of Cinnamon be
sent there"
THE EXPEDITION BY BOAT.
AS stated in yesterdays HERALD a
party of explorers left Salton in sail
boat on the unexplored sea at O'Clock
on Tuesday evening. After being out
few hours heavy head wind was en-
countered and the boat was blown five
miles out of it's course towards Walters
station. The sailors put back to Salton,
where they arrived at IL p. m.
Yesterday morning at O'Clock
they set sail again, and made about
twenty miles in southeast
erly direction without seeing any
limit to the water. At reaching that
distance from Salton a strong current
was encountered, which ran at the rate
of four and half miles an hour. All
attempts to make headway against that
stream were unavailing, and the boat
was again forced to return to Salton
without the navigators having derived
any information other than the fact
that the lakes boundary could not be
seen.
The soundings on this trip showed
that the water varied in depth from
fifteen to twenty-one inches, the. latter
being reached only three miles from
Salton.
THE sALToN AGENTS DISPATCH.
The Southern Pacific agent at Salton
yesterday morning sent the following
dispatch to the roads headquarters in
this city:
"a strong wind last night from south
east raised the water on the north shore.
The water line is moving westward
slowly. l cannot reach the end of the
track, and l fear the track will 60 with
the next strong wind. The water is
surely but slowly rising. The satura-
ton is 16 per cent fresher than yester-
day."
The agent refers to the track of the
switch from Salton on the main line of
the railroad to the salt works.
ANOTHER THEORY.
The following dispatch received at
Southern Pacific headquarters yesterday
afternoon presents one theory in regard
to the flood on the Colorado desert at
Salton. 1t is from the station agent at
Ogllby, near Yuma. 4.
OGILBY, July 1st.
In regard to the water that is flowing
in towards Salton, will state that a
very large amount of water has been
flowing into the desert from the Colo
rado river at a point some fifteen or
twenty miles below Pilot Knob ever since
the great overflow in February. We have
been wondering where it was going to.
1 cannot state that it is running today,
but it was week ago.
A PECULIAR ATMOSPHERE.
The Experience of Travellers Passing