XV.—From Fort Yuma to San Diego, California.
[Distances in miles and hundredths of a mile.]
| Miles. |
| Fort Yuma to |
| 10.00. | Los Algodones.—Along the Colorado. |
| 10.00. | Cook’s Wells.—Here commences the great desert; water nowhere good or reliable until arriving at Carizo Creek. The points named are where dep wells have been dug. “New River,” though usually set down, is a dry arroyo. The surface of the desert for seven miles on the eastern side is drifting sand and heavy for wagons. Then comes a section in the centre of the desert that is hard and level. On the west side there is about three miles of a mud flat. |
| 21.90. | Alamo Rancho. |
| 16.40. | Little Laguna. |
| 4.50. | Big Laguna. |
| 26.40. | Carizo Creek.—Water good; cane and brush for fuel, and they afford some forage for the animals; no grass. |
| 16.60. | Vallecito.—Grass poor; wood and water sufficient. |
| 17.80. | San Felipe.—Grass poor; wood scarce; water good. |
| 15.80. | Warner’s Ranch.—The road passes through a beautiful oak graove, where there is an abundance of grass and water. This is the summit of the mountain. At the Ranch the grass is poor, and no wood. The water is good. The oak grove terminates six miles from Warner’s. |
| 10.30. | Santa Isabel.—Good grass, wood, and water. This was an old Spanish mission, by is not occupied by some Americans and Indians. |
| 11.40. | Laguna.—Two miles from last camp is a good camping-place. The road passes over some steep hills, not high. This is the best camp on the road. |
| 12.00. | San Pasquel.—For the first nine miles the road is level and good to the top of the mountain, where there is a good camping-place, with with wood, water, and grass; thence the road descends a very steep hill. The camp is on the east side of the brook, near Soto’s house. |
| 18.80. | Parrasquitas.—The road passes a good camp three miles from San Pasqual. Wood, water, and grass at Parrasquitas. |
| 8.00. | Fisher’s House.—The road passes over several hills, and at four miles is a good camping-place. Wood, water, and grass at camp. |
| San Diego, California.—When animals are to be kept a considerable time at San Diego, they should be taken four or five miles up the river, as the grass is poor near the town. |
Total distance from Fort Yuma to San Diego, 217 miles.
Well in the Desert—Alamo Mocho.
