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WATER STATIONS FOR PROPOSED RAILROAD. 
burden in coming in contact with this harrier, the precipitation being three inches greater on 
the east than on the west side. The influence of these elevated mountain ranges is shown in 
a more remarkable manner further north. The annual fall of rain east of Santa Fe, at Fort 
Union, is about twenty inches ; while in the Eio G-rande valley, in the same latitude, it is but 
ten inches; and on the Sierra Madre, as far south as the head of the Gila and Mimbres rivers, 
it is twenty inches, as is shown by the recent Meteorological Report of the Medical Bureau of 
the United States Army. - 
The springs around the Organ mountains, the Rio Grande, Cooke’s spring, the Mimbres, 
Ojo de la Yacca, Ojo de Inez, Cienega del Sauz, the springs of the Playa de los Pimas, of the Calitro 
mountains, the San Pedro, the Aravaypa, Prospect and Petaya creeks, the Santa Cruz river, 
and the Gila itself, all, by their abundant and never-failing supply, fully attest the truth of 
our reasoning in this respect, that the fall of rain is sufficiently abundant for all practicable pur¬ 
poses, provided the configuration of the country is favorable to its being brought into requisition 
by conduits, artesian wells, common wells, or otherwise. 
Water stations .—To supply stations along the line of road as proposed after construction, resort 
must be had to conduits. Cooke’s spring, twelve miles north of the line, may be conveyed south¬ 
eastward, and, in connection with Neide’s spring, deliver water at a point thirty-five miles from the 
Rio Grande, the difference of elevation being about six hundred and ninety feet; and it is probable 
that this water may be conveyed beyond this summit into the Monument basin. The Rio 
Mimbres, twenty-one miles north of the line, may be conveyed to the summit of the Florida 
pass, a distance of twenty-seven miles, the difference of elevation being five hundred and twenty- 
seven feet, and also to the lowest point of its own basin at the line, twenty-one miles below, the 
difference of elevation between them being eight hundred and twenty feet. The water from Agua 
Fria may also serve to furnish this point, being about fifteen miles distant. Ojo de la Yacca, 
eighteen miles north of the line, and six hundred and twenty-seven feet above it, may be conducted 
to another convenient station, and the water from Ojo de Inez, about eighteen miles north of the 
line, may be delivered at a station in the vicinity of Cooke’s emigrant road, west of the summit of 
the plateau, the difference of elevation being about seven hundred and fifty feet. At th eplayas, 
on both sides of the Pyramid Range, there is little doubt but that common wells dug in the 
usual manner, or bored by machinery to the bottom of the gravelly deposits and tubed, 
will yield a plentiful supply of water for these stations. In the Yalle del Sauz a common well 
may be resorted to, or conduits laid from the Cienega, fifteen miles above the crossing, and three 
hundred feet higher. From this point to the Bear springs, at the head of the Aravaypa, no 
water exits immediately on the line; there may be springs in the unexplored chasms of the Dos 
Cabezos spur, and in Mount Graham, which may be found to supply stations at the Railroad Pass. 
Water from the Playa de los Pimas may be drawn to this summit, and to an immediate point 
between the Railroad Pass and Bear springs, from Dove and Antelope springs, by means of the 
force-pump before alluded to. 
The distances from station to station, between running water of Rio Grande and Aravaypa, 
as recapitulated, are as follows : 
Miles. 
From Rio Grande to station one. 31 
From station one to station two. 19 
From station two to station three. 15 
From station three to station four. 22 
From station four to station five... 17 
Miles. 
From station five to station six. 10 
From station six to station seven. 20 
From station seven to station eight. 21 ■ 
From station eight to station nine. 28 
From station nine to station ten. 29 
