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Source(s); Los Angeles Times - Monday December 10, 1906 p. 1; San Bernardino Daily Sun - Tuesday December 11, 1906 p. 1; San Bernardino Daily Sun - Tuesday December 11, 1906 p. 2; Los Angeles Herald - Tuesday December 11, 1906 p. 1; Imperial Valley Press - Saturday December 22, 1906 p. 1; Los Angeles Herald - Sunday December 30, 1906 p. 8; 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 - 1907 p. 26; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - from The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 28; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 124; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1356-1363; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 76; 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. 106, 107

Image(s); Steamer "Searchlight" and barge aground two miles below the Break, Dec. 14, 1906. C(a)ught in the river by rapid diversion thereof toward the Salton Sea, due to the second Break. taken by Harry Thomas Cory (or staff member) working for the Southern Pacific Railroad from Calisphere and UCLA (University of  California Los Angles), Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

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Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Los Angeles Times - Monday December 10, 1906
Additional information from: Los Angeles Daily News and NewsPapers.com

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San Bernardino Daily Sun - Tuesday December 11, 1906
Additional information from: San Bernardino Daily Sun and NewsPapers.com

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Life of the Salton Sea -

 

Los Angeles Herald - Tuesday December 11, 1906
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Imperial Valley Press - Saturday December 22, 1906
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Los Angeles Herald - Sunday December 30, 1906
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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

 

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