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Source(s); Los Angeles Herald - Saturday Feb 2, 1907 p. 2; Imperial Valley Press - Saturday February 2, 1907 p. 2; Imperial Valley Press - Saturday February 9, 1907 p. 1; San Bernardino Daily Sun - Saturday February 16, 1907 p. 1; Los Angeles Times - Sunday February 17, 1907 p. 6; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - from The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 28; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 124; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1356-1363; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 76; 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. 106, 107

Image(s); Second Closing Feb. - 1907. taken by Harry Thomas Cory (or staff member) working for the Southern Pacific Railroad from Calisphere and UCLA (University of  California Los Angles), Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

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