Source(s); Overland Monthly - Volume X - Jan 1873 "The Colorado Desert" p. 44; Desert Magazine - June 1949 - Volume 12 Number 8 "He Planned to Change the Desert Climate"  by David Hellyer p. 5; 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. 25-26

Image(s); Widney Sea by Norton Allen from Desert Magazine

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