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346 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.

LE CONTE SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 23).
Le Conte Spring is on the eastern side of Ord Mountain, about 10
miles in a direct line eastward from Ord Spring. It forms a camping
and watering place on a road between Newberry railroad station and
Victorville.
PEACOCK SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 24).
Peacock Spring forms a watering place at the northern base of a
western extension of the Bullion Mountains, 10 miles south of Lavic
railroad station. It is on a road that leads southward to San Ber-
nardino Mountains and is important because it furnishes the only
water between Lavic and a well near a dry lake 15 or 20 miles to the
southwest.
SURPRISE SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 40).
Surprise Spring is in the open desert southwest of Bullion Mountains,
on a road that leads to mining camps farther southeast. It yields
water that is somewhat alkaline, but it is used by travelers. The
spring receives its name because it is located in open land where
natural springs are not to be expected.

MESQUITE SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 42).
Mesquite Spring is about 12 miles southeast of and in the same
desert flat as Surprise Spring. It forms a camping place where the
water is of better quality and more abundant than at the northern
spring.
Both Mesquite and Surprise springs are in a shallow desert trough
and are probably points at which water rises to the surface through
the desert alluvium under a slight artesian head. Other springs
similar in character rise in the southern portion of the flat, at
Twenty-nine Palms Springs (San Bernardino 44, p. 316).
BOX S SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 28).
Several perennial springs issue in San Bernardino Mountains and
supply small ranches, prospectors' camps, or cattle-watering troughs.
Box S Spring is one of these desert springs that is situated at the
northern base of the mountains, about 10 miles west of Old Woman
Springs (San Bernardino 27, p. 316), at the foot of the road grade
up the mountain. Its water seeps from a bank of decomposed granite
at a rate of about 1 gallon a minute and is piped to a county watering
trough at the roadside.
CUSHENBURY SPRING (SAN BERNARDINO 29).
Cushenbury Spring rises in a small area of marshy land near the
base of the steeper slope of San Bernardino Mountains and is on the
road about 2| miles southeast of Box S Springs. It forms a small