Show flaule SPRINGS IN california it is always interesting to hear bear from the lips of a pioneer the history and incidents connected with the early sett settlement lenient of this western country and of discoveries made by bv men who have by this time passed on into the great beyond or still living at a ripe old age acre these recitals are nearly always thrilling dealing I 1 as they do with the adventures adae of the pioneers and they are often pathetic the one wo we recall to mind at the present time being t especially so this narrative was told by an old mining man now a wealthy resident of this city but who several years acro ago was interested in mining z affairs in in northwestern arizona the story being t founded on f acts n connected with the descove discovery rv of mule sp springs rin s in eastern california on the ed edge g e of tb the e great moha aloha ve d esert desert this story was told me said our informant by in an old government scout who in company with a comrade was looking 11 that section of the country over in the search for springs and watering places we were riding along said the scout and we had traveled over a scope of country that ahat was extremely ex y dry in fact we were beginning 11 to feel the need of water ours ourselves elves when we came to a draw that was eviden evidently tl y the mouth of a canyon canyon and we believed that by following it up we would find a spring or could at least fi find nd water by digging a few feet at some likely spot we were disappointed however as the signs were not favorable and my companion was in favor of turning back 1 I wanted to go cro a little further up the canyon and had gone crone but a few yards when I 1 saw dacron wagon tracks this decided the matter for it was uncommon to see signs of anything of this kind in that isolated region so far from the regular line of travel so we pushed on the trail although evidently a month old being so plain that it could be easily followed we traced it up for two or three miles when we saw a covered wagon in the distance but before we reached it we found the bodies of a man and a woman la laying y ing where they had perished from thirst in the wagon we found two dead children who had evidently died from lack of water attached to the wagon wheels were two broken halter ropes from which we judged 11 that the animals had broken loose and following z a fresh trail up the mountain side for a mile or more we found two mules on a small plateau in the center of which there trickled a tine fine spring we then came to the conclusion si on that the th e family had driven up the canyon in the search of water failing Faili ncr 11 to find it they had miserably perished although but a short distance from the spring sprier nr the mules after standing I 1 at the wagon r a day or two were able to break away and following 71 their natural instincts had soon found that which would have meant life to the emigrant family for this reason we ave called the place mule springs and it is known by this name to this day |