Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-05-08

point within 300 yards of Mir. Jack sons old home, and as it travels 1t develops into really pretty and inviting stream of water, flowing at least a hundred miners inches of water steadily. The new river as formed so far, has reached a dis tance of oyer half a mile, ana previous to two years ago was as hard and unbroken as the plaza yard Is in this city. 4 peculiarity of the new stream as 1t travels through the valley is noticeable in the depth of the gorge and its width also. From the cienega, where it started, the water was for years standing within three feet of the ground. but as it progresses on and through, it has reached depth at present of twenty feet to water 7ad the banks on each side are wiC med out to l50 feet apart. The eleva- tion does not seem to warrant this, as lar as as,optical arguments go. As before stated, the present Kirkland creek, or the dry one that is recog- nized as such, winds around the northern portion of the valley. The one that bids fair to supplant it, with an actual stream of water, tends to the southern portion of the same section, and, in its outline. makes direct course for the Kelsey ranch, two miles above the end of present work.
 4 strange feature also in connec- ton with this marvellous and sud- den work of nature is noticeable in many instances along the course of this proposed river. As far as it has developed, there is, m addition to a steady and strong flow of water from the crevice, many holes of great depth, supporting water in three instances, twenty-five feet in depth that has been measured. At the abandoned ranches of Messrs. Kirkland, the wells, which are in direct line of the river to be, have water on the surface. while the Sedi- ment around them is steadily form ing, as If being forced from below and around. For the first time in fifteen years, the we'll on the Black ranch, below where the crevice has started, has gone dry, but this is easily accounted for by the fact that the creek at this point is also sink ing.
 Probably the strangest of all doings, which naturally attach themselves to this phenomenon since it came into prominence, is the fact that is to be verified to-day. that from where the crevice started to a point below Thompson valley, a distance of at least fifteen miles, running water may, for the first time be seen in the history of the white man, in a continuous and running stream. This condition has never heretofore prevailed, the creek in past years sinking at many points along it, and forming itself into small holes.
 It is sad by many who have viewed this remarkable occurrence, that a few more fresbets, such as regularly visit that section in the rainy season, will see the completion of what is outlined, and that the more it progresses the more gigantic will it be, as far as the extent of the gorge is concerned and the depth to water.
 Many people have viewed the work as it now progresses, and be- heve that the original stream lived and thrived years ago in the land that it has determined to again give to the fuits of mankind, and that inside of five years Kirkland creek will be on the map as one of the streams to exist from sou Irse to mouth under some other name than the dry one.