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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); Los Angeles Herald - Thursday September 27, 1906 p. 12; Imperial Valley Press - Saturday September 29, 1906 p. 3; Imperial Valley Press - Saturday September 29, 1906 p. 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. 25; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - from The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 27, 28; 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. 1317, 1324-1335, 1336-1337; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 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. 102, 104-105

Image(s); Hind Dam with train on trestle bridge, showing employed construction methods, Colonia Ladrillera, Mexico (vicinity), 1906 and Hind Dam and Thomas J. Hind, the Superintendent, Colonia Ladrillera, Mexico (vicinity), 1906 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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Additional information from: Los Angeles Herald and NewsPapers.com

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Additional information from: Imperial Valley Press and NewsPapers.com

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Additional information from: Imperial Valley Press and NewsPapers.com

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Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

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