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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 and The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 35 and 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. 18 and The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C Farr - 1918 p. 36 and Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 44 - 46 and The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1285 - 1291

Image(s); Based on The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - p. 34, modified by DH.

Definition(s); Headgate - A gate for controlling the water flowing into a channel (such as an irrigation ditch or canal); from Merriam Webster

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

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

 

Additional information from: Google Books

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Life of the Salton Sea