Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-11-16 | Page 1 | Control the Salton Sea

CONTROL THE SALT0N SEA Southern Pacific Finally Overcomes Encroachment of Waters. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Nov. 1R Local Southern Pacific eifncials stated today ; that the engineers and rlprappera who have been at work for months at Balton sea. In an effort to check the flow Of the water from tho Colorado rl r, ha v.- In en successful, and the waters are now practically prac-tically under control. ESxperlment after experiment has proven I unsuccessful aha the railroad companj has been compelled to build several successive suc-cessive no.v tracks to get away trom the encroaching waters. According to the Information uivi-n out lodav. tin- engineers, engi-neers, by constructing o heavy riprap of relniorc d piling : f t loin; acmss on. channel of the iiir forcing the water to hack up and How tlnoui;h the other chan- j nel and uway from the company's prop- j c-rty, have Anally stopped tin- damage