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BOCK SPRINGS (SAN BERNARDINO 16).
Rock Springs are about halfway between the Salt Lake and the
Santa Fe railroad lines, near the eastern border of San Bernardino
County, on the old Government road to Fort Mohave, Nev. They
yield a small amount of water of good quality the only water for a
number of miles.
PITTTE SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 17).
Piute Spring is situated in Piute Pass, on the old military road to
Fort Mohave, Nev., about 9 miles east of Blackburn railroad siding.
It forms a watering place that is well known to prospectors, and
yields a small amount of water of good quality.
VONTRIGGER SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 18).
Vontrigger Spring is about 6 miles southwest of Piute Spring,
on a road that leads to Goffs station, on the Santa Fe Railway, 9
miles southward. The water issues in a small canyon on the southern
side of low hills, 2 miles north of Vontrigger, and like that of Piute
Spring is of good quality and sufficient in quantity for travelers.
KLINEFELTER SPRINGS (SAN BERNARDINO 19).
Klinefelter is a station on the Santa Fe Railway, near the eastern
border of the State. The railway company has installed tanks
here for locomotive supply, the water being obtained from large
springs that rise in the gravel of Sacramento Wash. In addition
to the main springs, considerable water seeps from the banks at several
places along the railway. The locality is the main source of water
supply for prospectors in the mountains to the south.
SPRING NORTHEAST OF VICTORVILLE (SAN BERNARDINO 21).
At the southwest side of a northern spur of Granite Mountain, 14
miles northeast of Victorville, on the road between that place and
Daggett, is a spring that yields a small flow of good water and was
formerly the main watering place on this road. Within recent years,
however, other supplies of water have been made available by wells
that have been sunk several miles to the southwest.
ORD SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 22).
Ord Spring is at the western base of Ord Mountain, about 18
miles south of Daggett, on a road that leads to San Bernardino
Mountains. It yields water of good quality and is an old camping
place thai; is well known to prospectors.