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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); Destructive Floods in the United States in 1905 by Edward Charles Murphy - 1906 p. 38-51, 54-55; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 46 and The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1205-1207, 1210-1211, 1214.5, and 1220; Compilation of Flood Data in Arizona 1862 - 1953 by Winchell Smith and Wilbur L. Heckler - 1955 p. 105-107; 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. 99

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