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Show A Ship Found In a California Desert. By many it has been held as a theory the-ory that the Yuma desert was once an ocean bed. At intervals pools of salt water have stood fur a while in the midst of the surrounding waste of sand, disappearing only to rise again in tho same or some other localities. A short time since one of these saline lakes disappeared, and a panv of Indians In-dians reported tho discovery of a "biz ship," left by the receding waves. A party of Americans at once proceeded to the spot, and found imbedded in ths sands the wreck of a hrge ves-el. Nearly one-third of tho forward parts of the ship or barque is p,a:i,lv visible. Ihe stump of the bow-pni remains, and portions of the .iml.e s of ti-iii h,,. peri&jt. The wrtvk is located forty mnes north of the St.n Bernardino and I rort Ynma road, and thirty m '1b-west '1b-west of Los Paimrrs, a well known watering wa-tering place on the desert. The rad across the ciesm Us been traveled for mere tLLa one hundred years. The history r,f the iil-fited vessel can, of course, never be known, but the discovery dis-covery of its decaying timbers in the m;dst of what has long be- r. - desert will furnish sarans wiih iccj for discussion, dis-cussion, ar.d liiiy p rhare furnish im-portac im-portac aid in the elucidation of ques-tioci ques-tioci of ecier.ee. .nqt f Yic. I |