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Show ARTESIAN WATER ON THE DESE.BT. Mr. Elias Dearborn, in search of range for his stock, found a section in the extreme south-east corner of this county where feed was plenty but no water. He thought the prospect warranted war-ranted digging or boring to supply this deficiency. Having selected a spot about a mile and a half north of ihc county line and some fifteen miles cast of the Willow Springs, in what is known as the Mohave plain?, he commenced com-menced digging. A few feet satislied him that water was near. The crust was hard and dry, beneath which was I a stratum of moist clay, about nine feet thick, overlying a bed of quicksand. quick-sand. This soon became too wet and soft for him to work in, and he then took a rake handle, about eight feet long, and probed it to ascertain its depth. With but little effort he drove it down its full length, and upon draw-inn draw-inn it the water followed with such fi.nv tl':it ho wit- compelled to has-ten out of ibe shall. The water rose to tho surface of the ground and has ever since continued liowing, forming quite a little lake below. The first flow of water, Mr. Dearborn informs us, was "as red as blood," but it soon cleared and is now remarkably pure and cool. He framed a curbing and . sunk it in the shaft about eipht feet, but was unable to drive it lower; the water boiling up with too much force for two men to overcome. Mr. Orth, who ran the dividing line between this county and Los Angeles, inlormed us at the time that he saw many places where he was satisfied artisan water could be reached at a depth of less than twenty feet. Mr. D's enterprise confirms the theory, and renders valuable an immense amount of grazing land; Kern County Courier, |