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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); Mar 1906 - Photograph and Note(s) taken and documented by Harry Thomas Cory from Calisphere titled Rockwood Headgate #2 under construction, building a trestle to divert water through the headgate, Colonia Ladrillera, Mexico (vicinity), 1906; 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. 26; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 49-50; 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. 26, 27; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 119-123; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1303, 1316, 1324-1339 ; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 56, 62-68; 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. 105

Image(s); Rockwood Headgate #2 under construction, building a trestle to divert water through the headgate, Colonia Ladrillera, Mexico (vicinity), 1906 by Harry Thomas Cory (or assistant) from Calisphere

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

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