Show TO JO IMPROVE THE COLORADO of the th great engineering epics of ot the world is the struggle of the men who havo have had charge of or the fight to re return return return turn the Colorado river to its regular r channel by stopping the crevasse below Yuma which flooded the whole Imperial valley and made mado the Salton S sea Nu Na Numerous Numerous stories have been written of or the successful effort e fort made last las November of or the fierce struggle by night and by day to Sam dam nm the flood of ot the sleepless tireless energy of or the men In charge as well as the laborers who caught the spirit of ot their leaders l ders and did Incredible IncredIble Incredible ible things to save the tha homes and lands of the settlers Imperiled by the inland sea that formed They supposed they had chained the river but after alter a awhile awhile while the current ate Its way ay through the head gates of ot a n canal can land and the work was w s all to do over oer again Since then th n under Mr Sir orders a tre tremendous tr organization has been in play to make the job permanent With what result remains to be seen The chief chi r difficulty d In this undertaking 6 ing has been the nature of ot th soil The deposit of or the river for ag ages s has made madea a bottomless b area of or silt slit ll stone ne sinks and disappears which w washes away at the tle banks like lika so much snow had and n which otters offers no foundation for the ordinary ordna restraining structures used for fordam dams dam and levees In the November i work mattresses of ot willows ws were sunk first and then held in hi place by train trainloads trainloads trainloads loads of stone dumped on top of the willows until an embankment was formed formeL Probably the thesa same e plan of operations Is being followed now on a target larger scale but the very able en engineers engineers In charge are not sanguine as asto asto asto to the certainty of permanency after they have completed co their work ork A final and sensible solution sol of the problem has been suggested by these men in their tb advice that the flood wa waters waters tens of or the Colorado be held In check by huge storage reservoirs rese at the upper per ji i sources so of the river which would make possible the reclamation of ot hundreds of of thousands of ot acres of land and at the same time prevent the tremendous on onrush rush of or water which wl comes com s down the channel chanel at some saml periods of the year with Irresistible Irr lorce c This plan plim has hasa iasa a great advantage In n that it could co d be e carried out ut profitably pr fit bly In l 1 spite of f the heavy Investment Divestment It f require The Te T e elands lands reclaimed could be made to bear be r the interest charge on the money re required reQuired reQuired aad nd repay the principal In easy euy Instalments The power rights alalie aIe of such immense reservoirs as would be 0 required would W uld be W worth millions and andt It t requires no great stretch ho o othe the tb Im Irn Imagination to picture the transcontinental transcontinental lines lt es operated d over long stretches by the electricity generated by Impounded floods that now serve only as sa destructive e a agencies In the low lower er reaches ot of the great gret river river i That 1 h at some o me such plan will be adopted a and carried through i in the coming ij years Is more than probable that it would woul a new n w empire In what Is Isnow isnow now now one ae of ot ot the desolate esola desert wastes II of ot ti tk fRee Redo mountain region regon ion is 18 certain tain tam To T W and Colorado d and Utah it would woud mean the 9 addition of o areas are Arable of le land an army anny of settlers and immeasurable an 1 wealth I |