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Sources and Additional Information

Sources; Report on the Irrigation of Lands in California and Mexico from the Colorado River by James D Schuyler - 1906 p. 10; The Salton Sea Menace by Edwin Duryea Jr. from Out West Magazine Vol XXIV, No 1 - Jan 1906 p. 6; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 46; 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. 18-19; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 24; 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. 48

Image(s); Created by the United States Reclamation Service in 1904, published in 1905, and included in a multitude of books with this image obtained from The Salton Sea Menace by Edwin Duryea Jr. from Out West Magazine Vol XXIV, No 1 - Jan 1906 p. 7

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_irrigation

 

Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

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Life of the Salton Sea