Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-21
THAT VOLCANO.
Mr.. Bramm Of PerriS Has
Seen the Cocopah Marvel.
He Has Returned From the
Land Of Mystery.
Hot Salt Springs the Water of
Which is Blue.
The Ground Shakes for Twenty Miles
Around the vOlcanO-New Rivers
Now Arise-A Peculiar
Region Described.

Learning that Ludwig Bramm, who is
now stopping in Perris, visited the vol
canic region below Salton sea while on a
prospecting tour last fall, an Era re-
porter interviewed the gentleman for
the purpose of obtaining some reliable
data in regard to that strange and COM
paratively unexplored region. Mr..
Bramm's story as told to the scribe, is
as follows:
II was one of party of four who left
Pomona for Lower California on the 9th
day of last December, the other mem
bers of the party being Messrs. Wright,
Rogers and Martin of Pomona. The
party made the journey to the line by
way Of Mountain Spring, passing on to
Coyote Hole and into the Cocopah
range. Signal mountain is the highest
point in this range, west of which lies
shallow lake or basin as large as Salton
sea. 1t is fifteen or twenty miles below
the line. The rich sulphur mine now
being worked by the International COM
pany is in the heart of the range, mid
way between the lake and gulf. The
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valuable.
"The New river now leaves the Colo
rado at a point about fifteen miles be-
low Yuma, circles in a westerly direc-
ton to the base of the Cocopah range,
for distance of about forty miles and
then returns to the Colorado, about
fifteen miles above the gulf. The
steam now running is about twelve feet
deep and forty or fifty yards wide.
A sail boat is being run on the river
by Portuguese, who supplies provis-
ions for the prospectors and men en-
gagged in other pursuits. There are two
Cocopah Indian villages in the vicinity
of the sulphur mines and a number of
ranchers. Some of the natives make
living in the placer diggings.
The most active volcano near the Co
copah range has no name, or at least the
party did not learn of any being ap-
piled to it. About two miles from its
base are numerous geysers and boiling
mud springs. The ground quakes and
trembles for distance of twenty miles
or more around the volcano and clouds
of vapor overhang it's apex continuously.
The old trail from Almo to Yuma runs
along its base, but the road is now in
bad condition and can only be travelled
by packtrains and horsemen."
The entire Cocopah range of noun
tains is highly volcanic; being all broken
up and scanned with lava beds. Numer-
GUS gold quartz veins and placer beds
are found on the eastern slope. ~ 50
Mr.. Bramm says that his party did
not encounter Col. D. K. Aliens famous
lake of ink, but he thinks the story not
altogether improbable, as the water in
the hot salt springs on the west side of
the range is blue in color-fnlly as deep
blue as Arnold's writing fuid-and it is
probable that it was even darker in hue
at the time Allen explored the country,
prior to the great floods of last year,
which would have tendency to wash
away much of the mineral matter and
render the water clearer. Mr.. Bramm
and party made the acquaintance of
Mr.. Mickey, who owns cattle ranch in
that region, and also discovered new
laguna, created by the same food that
made Salton sea, which was rapidly
drying up. The region abounds in rich
mineral, both quartz and placer, which
Mr.. Bramm will again visit on pros
pecting tour in the early fall"
Disordered Liver ct right with BEEcHAM's