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Show POZOS DE SAN BASILIC 327 cast and north. I found one rancheria of about 40 souls. We partook of food, and following the same arroyo came upon some wells which I named ( Pozos) de San Basilio, 10 whereat I met some little girls who " Pozos de San Basilio, St. Basil's wells, are Peach springs of latter- day nomenclature, in a very well known place. Garces mileage seems a little short; but that he is at Peach springs is evident from the courses and distance of his next long lap. He proceeds along the railroad from Truxton station to Peach Springs station, about ten miles northeast, whence it is only four miles due north to the springs themselves, from which the name of the latter station is derived. The spring nearest the station is Young's, a mile and a half southeast. The station is notable as the northernmost point on the railroad, about 350 31' 30", and the one nearest the Grand canon of the Colorado, distant 16 miles in air- line due north, and not over 20 by the nearly straight trail. The station and the spring will be found by name on almost any modern map; on some, the name is extended to Peach Tree springs; on Ives', the position of the springs is lettered " New Creek," with camp- mark " 66" ( his latitude about right, longitude a good deal too far east). Peach springs is so called from the fruit- trees of that name planted there, some of which were in evidence when I was on the spot, June 18 and 19, 1881. The situation is at a head of a canon through which the descent is easy enough into the bowels of the earth, down to the level of the river itself. On June 19 I made the round trip from the springs to the river in company with Lieutenant Carl F. Palfrey of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. The trail was plain, and though then unimproved, we made the descent on horseback, only finding it convenient to dismount once or twice at some little jump- off or awkward twist of the path, and noting how readily a carriage road could be worked through even the worst places. About halfway down |