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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); 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. 14-15; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 49-55; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1251-1253; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 22; The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C Farr - 1918 p. 4

Image(s); United States National Archives

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Life of the Salton Sea