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Source(s); Report on Irrigation from the Colorado River Below Yuma Arizona by Pumping VS Gravity Canals by Jas D Schuyler - 1901 p. 2, 24-26; Report on the Irrigation of Lands in California and Mexico from the Colorado River by James D Schuyler - 1906 p. 5; The Salton Sea Menace by Edwin Duryea Jr. from Out West Magazine Vol XXIV, No 1 - Jan 1906 p. 4-5; Statement of C R Rockwood - In the Matter of the Liability of the California Development Company for the Flooding of Salton Basin by Charles Rockwood - 1907 p. 12, 20-22, 28-29; The Overflow of Colorado River into Salton Basin by James D Schuyler - 1907 p. 3, 5-7; The Possibilities of Salton Sea from Popular Science Monthly - Volume 70 by Charles Alma Byers - 1907 p. 9-13; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 46; Born of the Desert - Imperial Valley in Its Making, not a Dream; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - from The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 23-24; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 92, 93, 96; The Salton Sea - A Study of the Geography the Geology the Floristics and the Ecology of a Desert Basin by DT MacDougal - 1914 p. 5; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1214.5, 1245, 1301;
The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 31;
The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C. Farr - 1918 p. 35; The First Thirty Years 1901 - 1931 - An Accounting of the Principal Events in the History of Imperial Valley, Southern California, U.S.A. by Otis B. Tout - 1931 p. 21; Imperial Irrigation District - The First 40 Years by M. J. Dowd - 1956 p. 5; Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael Hiltzik - 2010 p. 57, 61-62 (Kindle Edition)

Image(s); Glen Canyon Dam by F. Finch, A. E. Turner, or W. L. Rusho of the US Bureau of Reclamation - 1963 from Utah Division of Archives and Records Service

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