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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Fosters Hole or La Tinaja was a waterhole on the original route of the Cooke Wagon Road in what is now Sierra County, New Mexico. It is located in narrow crevasse at the foot of a cliff in Jug Canyon that is difficult to spot.Lt. Colonel Philip St. George Cooke described Fosters Hole in his book describing the expedition of his Mormon Battalion:\"November 9th.— ... Mr. Leroux returned; he had left the river where it turned eastward opposite San Diego, and had found a water hole fifteen miles on our course, and seen a prairie stream about thirty miles beyond.\"\"November 13th.— A mile or two from camp a note from Leroux was found on a pole, but also two return guides were met, who directed the march short to the right ; and a march of fifteen miles was made in a south-west course, always ascending over gravelly prairie, uneven but not very difficult ; and then, in a rocky chasm a hundred feet deep, a natural well or reservoir of pure water was found. There was no fuel, save a few bushes and Spanish bayonet, but the country was well covered with grama and buffalo grass.\"\"The Mormon battalion was left fifteen miles west of the Rio Grande, in camp near a deep ravine in which was a natural well of rock, which the sagacity of the guides had discovered, to make their first venture in the desert a success. This was November the 13th, 1846.\"This natural well was later named Fosters Hole, for Stephen Clark Foster, the translator for the expeditions officers, who found it. Its name and location appear in a sketch map adjunct to W.H. Emory's main map of the route of the Army of the West under Kearny across the southwest to California.Subsequent to Cooke's expedition, Forty-niners and later travelers used the route proposed by him, from the Jornada del Muerto across San Diego Crossing then 17 miles to a camp on the river with a cutoff to his route near the future site of Fort Thorn. From there it was then 8 miles up a dry arroyo then 4 miles on rolling hills to \"the water\" (Fosters Hole) and onward on what became known as Cooke's Wagon Road.When a shortcut was built between Mesilla and Cooke's Spring, as part of a military road construction project in 1856. Traffic soon diminished on the longer route by way of San Diego Crossing. In Marcy's, The Prairie Traveler (1858), his ITINERARY XXIII, From Fort Thorne, New Mexico, to Fort Yuma, California; gives the distance to \"Water Holes\" from Fort Thorn as 14.3 miles, \"One mile west of hole in rock. Water uncertain; no wood.\"By the time of the American Civil War, settlements in the area had been driven away by the start of the Apache Wars removing locals (except the Apache) with knowledge of the place. In 1862 the California Column account of the route omit mention of Fosters Hole or any water source after Mule Spring on the 22 mile route between Mule Spring and the the head of Cooke's Wagon Road on the Rio Grande. Its location was lost until it was rediscovered in 1988, in Jug Canyon, on a ranch west of Hatch, New Mexico. The owner of the ranch was unaware of its existence."@en }

• Fosters_Hole abstract "Fosters Hole or La Tinaja was a waterhole on the original route of the Cooke Wagon Road in what is now Sierra County, New Mexico. It is located in narrow crevasse at the foot of a cliff in Jug Canyon that is difficult to spot.Lt. Colonel Philip St. George Cooke described Fosters Hole in his book describing the expedition of his Mormon Battalion:\"November 9th.— ... Mr. Leroux returned; he had left the river where it turned eastward opposite San Diego, and had found a water hole fifteen miles on our course, and seen a prairie stream about thirty miles beyond.\"\"November 13th.— A mile or two from camp a note from Leroux was found on a pole, but also two return guides were met, who directed the march short to the right ; and a march of fifteen miles was made in a south-west course, always ascending over gravelly prairie, uneven but not very difficult ; and then, in a rocky chasm a hundred feet deep, a natural well or reservoir of pure water was found. There was no fuel, save a few bushes and Spanish bayonet, but the country was well covered with grama and buffalo grass.\"\"The Mormon battalion was left fifteen miles west of the Rio Grande, in camp near a deep ravine in which was a natural well of rock, which the sagacity of the guides had discovered, to make their first venture in the desert a success. This was November the 13th, 1846.\"This natural well was later named Fosters Hole, for Stephen Clark Foster, the translator for the expeditions officers, who found it. Its name and location appear in a sketch map adjunct to W.H. Emory's main map of the route of the Army of the West under Kearny across the southwest to California.Subsequent to Cooke's expedition, Forty-niners and later travelers used the route proposed by him, from the Jornada del Muerto across San Diego Crossing then 17 miles to a camp on the river with a cutoff to his route near the future site of Fort Thorn. From there it was then 8 miles up a dry arroyo then 4 miles on rolling hills to \"the water\" (Fosters Hole) and onward on what became known as Cooke's Wagon Road.When a shortcut was built between Mesilla and Cooke's Spring, as part of a military road construction project in 1856. Traffic soon diminished on the longer route by way of San Diego Crossing. In Marcy's, The Prairie Traveler (1858), his ITINERARY XXIII, From Fort Thorne, New Mexico, to Fort Yuma, California; gives the distance to \"Water Holes\" from Fort Thorn as 14.3 miles, \"One mile west of hole in rock. Water uncertain; no wood.\"By the time of the American Civil War, settlements in the area had been driven away by the start of the Apache Wars removing locals (except the Apache) with knowledge of the place. In 1862 the California Column account of the route omit mention of Fosters Hole or any water source after Mule Spring on the 22 mile route between Mule Spring and the the head of Cooke's Wagon Road on the Rio Grande. Its location was lost until it was rediscovered in 1988, in Jug Canyon, on a ranch west of Hatch, New Mexico. The owner of the ranch was unaware of its existence.".