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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory and William Phipps Blake - 1915, p 1231-1232; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 18; The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C Farr - 1918 p. 4 and 312;
The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 40-42

Image(s); Map of the Colorado Desert Sonora Mesa and Delta of the Rio Colorado - 1893 by J. Hart for The Colorado River Irrigation Company from the Huntington Digital Library

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional Information from: Huntington Digital Library

 

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Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

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Life of the Salton Sea