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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); Los Angeles Herald - Friday November 2, 1906 p. 12; Los Angeles Herald - Sunday November 4, 1906 p. 4; San Bernardino Daily Sun - Tuesday November 6, 1906 p. 13; Imperial Valley Press - Saturday November 17, 1906 p. 7; 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; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - from The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 26, 27, 28; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 123, 124; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1336, 1341, 1342, 1345-1350; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 68-69, 70-72, 73-75; 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

Image(s); Hind dam with large loose rocks at the first closing, Colonia Ladrillera, Mexico (vicinity), 1906 all 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

Note(s); As of 2018, the remnants of the channel the Rockwood Headgate was located in is still visible from satellite images.

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Additional information from: Los Angeles Herald and NewsPapers.com

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Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

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