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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 - 1909 as first published in the The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 21, 23; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1921 p. 32-33; 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. 16, 17, 40, 41; The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C Farr - 1918 p. 16; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 8, 15; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1277, 1278

Image(s);  The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1281

Definition of Heading; (of a river or stream or canal) to have the head or source where specified; from Dictionary.com

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Life of the Salton Sea