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Source(s); 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. 20-22; The Overflow of Colorado River into Salton Basin by James D Schuyler - 1907 p. 1; The Possibilities of Salton Sea from Popular Science Monthly - Volume 70 by Charles Alma Byers - 1907 p. 13; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 47; 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. 22; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 104-105; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1289-1292; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 40, 42-45; The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C. Farr - 1918 p. 31, 37; 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. 36, 101; Imperial Irrigation District - The First 40 Years by M. J. Dowd - 1956 p. 32; The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman by Maury Klein - 2000 p. 379-380

Image(s); Edward Henry Harriman, 1848 - 1909, taken 1906 from Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection

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