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Show Tho Rio Colorado, between Arizona and California, is even a worso wtrcam for changing' Ita courso. During the freshets In June, July and August tho Colorado was navigated In the early days by a storn-whcelcr from Yuma to tho mouth of tho Grand canyon. Toward To-ward tho end of the high water an army paymaster and his escort undertook under-took ono year to malto tho trip from Vuma to Fort Mohave. Tho water was falling qulto rapidly and they had many days and ulghts of worry and toll lu getting over sand bnrai Fin-nlly Fin-nlly they stuck fast, and tho efforts of eoldlcrs and boatmen could not release tho boat. Night coming on, worn out nnd weary, thoy decided to rest until morulug nnd then tako a new start. They awoko lu tho morning on what resembled a part of a dry, sandy Colorado Colo-rado desert. Not a drop of water was In sight, and, after exploring for several sev-eral hours, thoy found tlm vlvcr. 'seven miles away, meandering along as peacefully aa If nothing out of tho ujal had happened. It Is needless o say thoy finished their Journoy by wa&on train, and mulo power. In some futurq ago a remarkable discovery may bo made of a river steamer-burled In tho Band miles and miles from any water. |