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Sources and Additional Information

Source(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 LibraryReport on the Irrigation of Lands in California and Mexico from the Colorado River by James D Schuyler - 1906 p. 9-10; 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 - post 1907 p. 37-39; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 11 - 13, 44; Born of the Desert - Imperial Valley in Its Making, not a Dream; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - 1909 as first published in the The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 18; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1231-1233, 1278-1288; 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. 38-39, 99; USGS Bulletin 845 - Guidebook of the Western United States Part F. - 1933 by USA Government Printing Office p. 254.5

Image(s); Algodones Dunes and the Salton Sea from Google Earth

Additional Information from: USGS

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Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

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Additional Information from: USGS

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Life of the Salton Sea