Show SALTON LAKE the mysterious ABOUT two years ago lake in the colorado formation of IL a deal of comment great desert occasioned a it was generally supposed that ibe water came from the colorado 1 river but it was waa not lot practically demo rated until within a few days day ago the following special dispatch to the san francisco chronicle Chr onide explains the mystery 10 1892 charles SALTO july will long be remembered colorado of the as an explorer the past few weeks he be desert por for within has bas madean made an involuntary trip from the colorado river to 10 salton salt on a mouth of the distance of over miles and the greatest wonder exists how he lives to tell the tale on may lot bl be left yuma in an eighteen foot skiff going do dow n anthe the colorado river to the in mouth olith ot of hardys colorado the plumes plume 0 of f the little to hunt for white while ci ane which are plentiful there not meeting with success he went up mountain colorado to volcano there camped and he then determined to follow fallow up the now new river which comes into hardys Har dve Oo colorado lorado two miles northwest ol of volcano he left june which place n 0 mountain new river he the entering up found a slow low current running northwest and site after r proceeding 1 fifteen miles V baguna with an increased came 10 lo a agans current from that into a channel with quite it a rapid current and thong thoughtlessly litle sely went on cutting his way ay Os until he became came to through the his dangerous another laguna then realizing position he made camp and concluded that it was impossible to return yuma through the channels by boat to on account of the rapid currents the thought then mccu occurred to push on and endeavor to leach salton after passing through seven lagunas lacunas he came estimates to be to a channel which he five miles long the water running from four to five miles an hour but depth or width to the channel wih wi h no great this this distance he save sap he made in two days arriving july dh ath at the south id end of silton salton lake about opposite p cosite volcano springs here he found the wa waier er to be two inches deep and was compelled to push his hia boat borne bome el eichi h miles over the mud and fc hallow we hunting bunting lor for a channel that would lead to salton but was com belled to abandon the journey he moored his boat and made for the railroad track be ba and without water walking the distance of eight miles through the hot mud and salt he arrived a at t dermid durmid half dead remaining there one day resting himself the next day thinking the water would rise he went back to his boat and found to use his own expression that dihe water was being licked up by the sun there being no sign of a rise he went back to durmid dermid and not being treated kindly started for salton afoot to advise 0 W durbrow of his hia trip at salton he was taken care of and today he was fitted out with provisions and water to return to his b boat 0 at for his gun and baggage mr elsen will return to salton end and will be the guest of mr durbrow the water shows on the margin about four miles from the track at salton but with the great evaporation there is but little increase to the water which is accounted tor for by the fact that only one t tream is running into tho the lake and as the river y mill ill be falling every day it ts to not P probable that the water will attain a d depth th of over six I 1 I 1 inches tic h s on th the mar marsh sh w which ich mr jurbe curbow says say will be very acceptable |