Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-08-27
Changes in River Desert.

The Colorado river is constantly changing its bad and course from two miles above, at, and below the great break made by the flood of last year.
 The main stream IS still taking to the west, cutting through the great cot tOnwoods, part of it flows back into the old river Pear the easterly and of the big bend. From there up to the crevasse the old channels are entirely closed up with sand and drlftwood. All of the small streams supplying Carter river near it's source are nearly closed by drift and sand, although the late rise cut under the drift and let more water into Carter river than before.OAt one time there was not more than three inches ot water on the bar. Below the crevasse there are immense piles of drift, which stops the flow of water and forces it over to the east bank. Only for this the old channel of the Colorado would close up entirely. There IS not fall enough in the Carter river for the first 30 miles to keep 1t clear from the drift, brush, and grass. The west bank above the great break in the Colorado is composed of a very hard clay. Only for this, the river would cut in to the west for miles and the entires tream would go of towards Indians Wells. What a chance to ir- rigat9 all of that country. There IS hardly square foot in the great desert that cannot be reached by the water that even now flows through the great crevasse in the river. Why not? The fall is 106 feet in sixty-fiye miles in a di- rect line. Those who say to the contrary, talk through their "hats," ia fact are ignorant of the fact and know nothing about what they write or talk. I say that every foot almost of the desert can be fully irrigated and that too by the Colorado during the year. It carries any steamer ever built at Yuma or the shipyards from the Grand Canyon to the gulf.
 The Indians are putting in an i'm mense crop for them, but the rats and cottontails keep them busy. The h. dians put the entrails of fish, stick traps build walls of clay and then are up all nigh beating tin cans, coal oil cans and any thing else to make noise and yet the pests come and destroy the corn which the Indians keep replanting. Since the flood the Indians are we'll supplied with boats which they picked up. All of the Indians live on fish, which are very plentiful.
 There should be a good we'll dug at Indians Wells and we'll curbed up as there was years ago. Then large white posts 20 feet high and plank sign boards we'll fastened to them should be put up on the highest point near the springs wells, water-holes and other places where water can be found, and the BreedlOve tragedy will not be repeated. The Government should do this work. I understand that Governor Torres will cooperate on the part af the Mexican Government.
 l never saw such a growth of grass. The old Indians. say that they never saw anything like it. It is from four to seven feet high and thick as it can stand. The wild hemp which was just coming up two weeks ago is from ten to twelve feet high and almost as thick as the grass. All of the barren places which for years have been like beds of ashes, or caked hard as an adobe, are covered with grass and calite, even the few sand hills here and there is that which was a desert two years ago are now hidden by au immense growth of grass, weeds and brosh, in fact the desert Is transformed and today looks more like a garden or field. So much for water. This shows what every inch of the great desert will be when it is once properly irrigated as it will be. not far in the future. J. s. CARTER,
 ALGoDONEs, Aug. 18th, 1892,-Yuma Sentinel.